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

QUIDS

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

As an opener, it rules out about 85.3% of possible answers.

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Meaning and pronunciation

Noun

plural of quid

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 QUIDS performs as a guess

Wordle accepts QUIDS 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 67.6% of games, misses completely in 32.4%, and leaves about 348 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete opener benchmark, it ranks #12,923 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.
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Useful pattern pages

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

Q___S Q in the 1st position and S in the 5th position _U__S U in the 2nd position and S in the 5th position

Explore lists that match the beginning, ending or letters in QUIDS.

First-turn measures

All four describe QUIDS 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.

3.70 Entropy (bits)
348 Avg remaining
0.0% Exact match
85.3% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 11% of evaluated openers
2.25 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opening guess: previous benchmark

How QUIDS 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
99.87% Solved within six
0.71 Spread of game lengths
#12,923 Rank among openers
Opening with QUIDS left 3 of the snapshot's answers unsolved after 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 #12,923 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
0
2 guesses
35
3 guesses
682
4 guesses
1,282
5 guesses
329
6 guesses
23
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:
ISU

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
68%
Green tile
22%
All gray
32%

Feedback distribution

QUIDS can come back 59 different ways. These are the most likely, and how many of the possible answers give each one:

769 answers
320 answers
228 answers
133 answers
130 answers
128 answers
87 answers
71 answers
70 answers
65 answers
55 answers
40 answers
31 answers
28 answers
27 answers
18 answers
16 answers
14 answers
13 answers
10 answers
10 answers
7 answers
7 answers
7 answers
6 answers
5 answers
5 answers
5 answers
5 answers
5 answers

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

Q10U1I1D2S1
Total: 15 points

Words With Friends

Total: 16 points

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

Try next

CARLE STARE LEANT CRANE TRONE DROLE

Strategy after playing QUIDS

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

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing QUIDS:

32% chance
Suggested:
CARLE
13% chance
Suggested:
STARE
10% chance
Suggested:
LEANT

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

32.4% →
CARLE 6.20 bits
13.5% →
STARE 5.68 bits
9.6% →
LEANT 5.14 bits
5.6% →
CRANE 5.01 bits
5.5% →
TRONE 5.26 bits
5.4% →
DROLE 5.46 bits
3.7% →
MORNE 4.24 bits
3.0% →
SLART 4.13 bits
2.9% →
STOLE 3.99 bits
2.7% →
LATER 4.47 bits

Research on QUIDS

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

Optimal play

Opening with QUIDS, a proven-optimal strategy averages 3.88 guesses and ranks #13,357 of 14,855 legal openers. The best proven opener, TARSE, averages 3.55.

No guaranteed hard-mode solve In hard mode, no strategy that opens with QUIDS can guarantee a solve within six guesses.

Our six-turn simulation says 3.84, at or below the proven-optimal 3.88, 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 KWIHDZ. Estimated pronunciation

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

Related meanings

In WordNet's sense inventory, QUIDS is a kind of unit or consideration.

Synonyms POUND plug chew wad

Familiarity and learning

Frequency
QUIDS sits in the rare band of the wordfreq scale, appearing less than once per million words of written English; the band marks it as a word few players will have met in print.

Sources: Optimal-play values: Alex Selby's exhaustive Wordle analysis (MIT); Pronunciation: CMU Pronouncing Dictionary (BSD), with machine estimates from the g2p_en model; Word relations: Open English WordNet, 2025 edition (CC BY 4.0); Word frequency: wordfreq (data CC BY-SA 4.0).