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QUIET

Yes, QUIET was the Wordle answer on July 5, 2021 (Wordle #16).

As an opener, it rules out about 92.5% of possible answers.

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Meaning and pronunciation

Pronunciation: /ˈkwaɪ̯.ət/[ˈkʰw̥aɪ̯.ət]

Adjective

With little or no sound; free of disturbing noise.

“I can't hear the music; it is too quiet.”

Adjective

Having little motion or activity; calm.

“the sea was quiet”

Verb

To cause (someone or something) to become quiet.

“Can you quiet your child? He’s making lots of noise.”

Verb

To become quiet or calm.

“When you quiet, we can start talking.”

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

Yes

Included among the answers considered by the solver.

Past Wordle answer

Used once

Past Wordle answer: July 5, 2021 (#16).

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

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How QUIET performs as a guess

QUIET is a possible answer, so it would solve about one game in 2,374 when every answer is treated as equally likely.

Played as an opener, it lands at least one colored tile in 82.1% of games, misses completely in 17.9%, and leaves about 179 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete opener benchmark, it ranks #12,020 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.81 guesses in games solved within six turns.

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Useful pattern pages

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

Q___T Q in the 1st position and T in the 5th position Q__E_ Q in the 1st position and E in the 4th position _U__T U in the 2nd position and T in the 5th position

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

First-turn measures

All four describe QUIET 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.

4.54 Entropy (bits)
179 Avg remaining
0.04% Exact match
92.5% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 54% of evaluated openers
1.41 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opening guess: previous benchmark

How QUIET 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.

3.81 Avg guesses
99.83% Solved within six
0.74 Spread of game lengths
#12,020 Rank among openers
Opening with QUIET left 4 of the snapshot's answers unsolved after six guesses. A spread of 0.74 means those games clustered within about 0.74 of a guess of the 3.81 average. It ranks #12,020 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
1
2 guesses
54
3 guesses
712
4 guesses
1,236
5 guesses
315
6 guesses
32
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
3 vowels
Common:
EITU

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
82%
Green tile
39%
All gray
18%

Example solver route

R O A T E
S L E E T
D U V E T
Q U I E T

One example route used by the solver.

This solver benchmark reaches QUIET in 4 guesses.

Feedback distribution

QUIET can come back 78 different ways. These are the most likely, and how many of the possible answers give each one:

424 answers
346 answers
166 answers
148 answers
112 answers
102 answers
99 answers
94 answers
82 answers
63 answers
57 answers
54 answers
49 answers
48 answers
47 answers
43 answers
39 answers
39 answers
30 answers
28 answers
24 answers
20 answers
20 answers
20 answers
20 answers
17 answers
12 answers
12 answers
12 answers
12 answers

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

Q10U1I1E1T1
Total: 14 points

Words With Friends

Total: 15 points

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

Try next

CLARY LEARE SOLAR SNAIL SLOTH SLUNG

Strategy after playing QUIET

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

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing QUIET:

18% chance
Suggested:
CLARY
15% chance
Suggested:
LEARE
7% chance
Suggested:
SOLAR

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

17.9% →
CLARY 5.76 bits
14.6% →
LEARE 5.47 bits
7.0% →
SOLAR 4.59 bits
6.2% →
SNAIL 4.81 bits
4.7% →
SLOTH 4.79 bits
4.3% →
SLUNG 4.70 bits
4.2% →
CLARY 4.59 bits
4.0% →
TARTE 4.80 bits
3.5% →
SURLY 3.71 bits
2.7% →
PLANE 3.72 bits

Research on QUIET

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

Optimal play

Opening with QUIET, a proven-optimal strategy averages 3.80 guesses and ranks #10,842 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 QUIET can guarantee a solve within six guesses.

Our six-turn simulation says 3.81; proven optimal play reaches 3.80. The fixed strategy accounts for the difference.

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

Two syllables, stress on the first syllable Say it KWYUHT.

Rhymes with GUYOT

Related meanings

In WordNet's sense inventory, QUIET is a kind of conditions or order.

Synonyms STILL calm silence smooth quietly hush

Opposites NOISY active loud stormy

Familiarity and learning

Frequency
QUIET sits in the common band of the wordfreq scale, appearing about 45 times per million words of written English; the band marks it as an everyday word almost every player will know.
Learner level
Appears in beginner learner vocabulary (CEFR-J level A1); among the first words English learners study.
Age of acquisition
Typically learned around age 4, by Glasgow Norms speaker ratings.
Imageability
Imageability score: 32 of 100. Raters found it difficult to picture.
Dominant sense
Lancaster raters associated it most strongly with sound (4.3 of 5).

In a sentence

Be quiet, all of you.
© tatoeba.org contributor CK (CC BY 2.0 FR)
It was quiet in there.
© tatoeba.org contributor CK (CC BY 2.0 FR)

Sources: Optimal-play values: Alex Selby's exhaustive Wordle analysis (MIT); Pronunciation: CMU Pronouncing Dictionary (BSD); Word relations: Open English WordNet, 2025 edition (CC BY 4.0); Word frequency: wordfreq (data CC BY-SA 4.0); Learner levels: CEFR-J Wordlist ver 1.5, Tono Laboratory, TUFS; Glasgow Norms (CC BY 4.0); Lancaster Sensorimotor Norms (CC BY 4.0).