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

QUILA

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

No dictionary definition for QUILA is recorded in our sourced data.

As an opener, it rules out about 90.4% of possible answers.

Meaning and pronunciation

We do not have a sourced definition for this word yet.

Check QUILA on Wiktionary or report a missing entry.

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 QUILA performs as a guess

Wordle accepts QUILA 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 81.8% of games, misses completely in 18.2%, and leaves about 228 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete opener benchmark, it ranks #12,378 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.82 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.

First-turn measures

All four describe QUILA 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.

4.13 Entropy (bits)
228 Avg remaining
0.0% Exact match
90.4% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 29% of evaluated openers
1.81 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opening guess: previous benchmark

How QUILA 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.

3.82 Avg guesses
99.79% Solved within six
0.73 Spread of game lengths
#12,378 Rank among openers
Opening with QUILA left 5 of the snapshot's answers unsolved after six guesses. A spread of 0.73 means those games clustered within about 0.73 of a guess of the 3.82 average. It ranks #12,378 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
0
2 guesses
37
3 guesses
736
4 guesses
1,217
5 guesses
327
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:
AILU

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
82%
Green tile
26%
All gray
18%

Feedback distribution

QUILA can come back 61 different ways. These are the most likely, and how many of the possible answers give each one:

448 answers
432 answers
197 answers
176 answers
149 answers
143 answers
111 answers
99 answers
58 answers
49 answers
45 answers
43 answers
43 answers
34 answers
33 answers
31 answers
31 answers
25 answers
18 answers
16 answers
16 answers
15 answers
12 answers
11 answers
10 answers
10 answers
9 answers
8 answers
8 answers
8 answers

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

Q10U1I1L1A1
Total: 14 points

Words With Friends

Total: 16 points

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

Strategy after playing QUILA

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

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing QUILA:

19% chance
Suggested:
CRATE
18% chance
Suggested:
TORSE
8% chance
Suggested:
RONTE

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

18.9%
CRATE 5.65 bits
18.2%
TORSE 5.97 bits
8.3%
RONTE 5.25 bits
7.4%
STRAE 4.66 bits
6.3%
TRONE 5.12 bits
6.0%
TRONE 5.44 bits
4.7%
SOBER 4.73 bits
4.2%
MORSE 4.41 bits
2.4%
NADIR 4.31 bits
2.1%
LIVER 4.18 bits

Research on QUILA

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

Optimal play

Opening with QUILA, a proven-optimal strategy averages 3.87 guesses and ranks #13,194 of 14,855 legal openers. The best proven opener, TARSE, averages 3.55.

In hard mode it averages 4.02 guesses at best and is rank #6,410 of the 7,453 openers that can still guarantee a solve within six guesses.

Our six-turn simulation says 3.82, at or below the proven-optimal 3.87, 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

Two syllables, stress on the first syllable Say it KWEELUH. Estimated pronunciation

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

Familiarity and learning

Frequency
QUILA 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 frequency: wordfreq (data CC BY-SA 4.0).