Accepted guess Not a possible answer F tier for first-turn info

QUICH

QUICH is accepted as a guess but is not on the solver's possible-answer list.

As an opener, it rules out about 83.1% of possible answers.

Meaning and pronunciation

Noun

Obsolete spelling of quitch.

Verb

Obsolete spelling of quitch.

Source: Wiktionary contributors · CC BY-SA 4.0. Corrections.

Wordle status

A word can be a playable guess without being a possible answer.

Playable guess

Yes

Included in the Wordle guess list used by our tools.

Possible answer

No

The solver does not currently treat this as a possible answer.

Past Wordle answer

Not used yet

No past answer date found.

The possible-answer list is the solver's current list and may change when Wordle adds new answers.

How QUICH performs as a guess

Wordle accepts QUICH as a guess, but the solver does not list it as a possible answer.

Played as an opener, it lands at least one colored tile in 63.1% of games, misses completely in 36.9%, and leaves about 402 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete opener benchmark, it ranks #12,858 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.84 guesses in games solved within six turns.

Try your feedback pattern

Tap the tiles to match your feedback, then see the ranked follow-up guesses.

All gray? Tap a tile to cycle gray → yellow → green.

Useful pattern pages

If you only know part of the word, start with one of these matching patterns.

First-turn measures

All four describe QUICH used as an opening guess. Entropy is the same idea as “avg ruled out” on a log scale: a higher number means the guess splits the possible answers into more, smaller groups.

3.66 Entropy (bits)
402 Avg remaining
0.0% Exact match
83.1% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 11% of evaluated openers
2.29 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opening guess: previous benchmark

How QUICH performed in the previous complete opener benchmark, against its captured answer snapshot. These research figures are separate from today's solver recommendations. See the data page for the method.

3.84 Avg guesses
100% Solved within six
0.71 Spread of game lengths
#12,858 Rank among openers
Opening with QUICH solved every answer in the snapshot within six guesses. A spread of 0.71 means those games clustered within about 0.71 of a guess of the 3.84 average. It ranks #12,858 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
0
2 guesses
24
3 guesses
717
4 guesses
1,262
5 guesses
320
6 guesses
31
Top-ranked in the current bounded policy screen: SLANT. The policy minimizes misses within six first, then average guesses among wins (3.46 for the leader). Compare the ranking measures

Composition

5/5 unique
2 vowels
Common:
IU

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
63%
Green tile
27%
All gray
37%

Feedback distribution

QUICH can come back 56 different ways. These are the most likely, and how many of the possible answers give each one:

876 answers
267 answers
174 answers
164 answers
145 answers
118 answers
106 answers
45 answers
45 answers
40 answers
34 answers
33 answers
26 answers
23 answers
23 answers
17 answers
16 answers
15 answers
14 answers
13 answers
12 answers
11 answers
11 answers
9 answers
9 answers
9 answers
9 answers
9 answers
8 answers
8 answers

Letter-value totals

Base letter-value totals for QUICH; these do not show whether either game accepts the word.

Scrabble

Q10U1I1C3H4
Total: 19 points

Words With Friends

Total: 20 points

Scores shown are base values without double/triple letter or word bonuses.

Strategy after playing QUICH

What the solver recommends next for each way the board can respond to QUICH.

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing QUICH:

37% chance
Suggested:
TALER
11% chance
Suggested:
TALER
7% chance
Suggested:
SLANE

Follow-ups for common patterns

Ranked follow-up guesses for the 10 most common feedback patterns.

36.9%
TALER 6.05 bits
11.2%
TALER 5.23 bits
7.3%
SLANE 5.10 bits
6.9%
STONE 5.16 bits
6.1%
CARLE 5.56 bits
5.0%
STARE 5.59 bits
4.5%
SLYER 4.48 bits
1.9%
STRAE 4.47 bits
1.9%
LEAST 4.62 bits
1.7%
CANER 4.02 bits

Research on QUICH

Game-tree analysis and word research for QUICH, with an explanation for each figure.

Optimal play

Opening with QUICH, a proven-optimal strategy averages 3.89 guesses and ranks #13,693 of 14,855 legal openers. The best proven opener, TARSE, averages 3.55.

In hard mode it averages 4.05 guesses at best and is rank #6,796 of the 7,453 openers that can still guarantee a solve within six guesses.

Our six-turn simulation says 3.84, at or below the proven-optimal 3.89, because the two figures score different answer lists.

These figures come from exhaustive game-tree search and are exact for the NYT lists of July 2023 (3,158 answers). They do not use the site's working answer pool.

How it sounds

One syllable Say it KWIHCH. Estimated pronunciation

This pronunciation is machine-estimated, not taken from a pronunciation dictionary.

Sources: Optimal-play values: Alex Selby's exhaustive Wordle analysis (MIT); Pronunciation: CMU Pronouncing Dictionary (BSD), with machine estimates from the g2p_en model.