QUILT
Yes, QUILT was the Wordle answer on December 21, 2025 (Wordle #1646).
As an opener, it rules out about 89.6% of possible answers.
Meaning and pronunciation
Pronunciation: /ˈkwɪlt/[ˈkʰwɪlt]
- Noun
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A bed covering consisting of two layers of fabric stitched together, with insulation between, often having a decorative design.
“My grandmother is going to sew a quilt.”
- Noun
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A roll of material with sound-absorbing properties, used in soundproofing.
- Verb
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To construct a quilt.
- Verb
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To construct something, such as clothing, using the same technique.
Source: Wiktionary contributors · CC BY-SA 4.0. Corrections.
Wordle status
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Playable guess
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Possible answer
YesIncluded among the answers considered by the solver.
Past Wordle answer
Used oncePast Wordle answer: December 21, 2025 (#1646).
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See what the public sample says →How QUILT performs as a guess
QUILT 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 73.6% of games, misses completely in 26.4%, and leaves about 246 possible answers on average.
In the previous complete opener benchmark, it ranks #9,040 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.74 guesses in games solved within six turns.
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Useful pattern pages
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First-turn measures
All four describe QUILT 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.
As an opening guess: previous benchmark
How QUILT 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.
Composition
Feedback chances
Example solver route
One example route used by the solver.
This solver benchmark reaches QUILT in 4 guesses.
Feedback distribution
QUILT can come back 75 different ways. These are the most likely, and how many of the possible answers give each one:
Letter-value totals
Base letter-value totals for QUILT; these do not show whether either game accepts the word.
Scrabble
Words With Friends
Scores shown are base values without double/triple letter or word bonuses.
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Strategy after playing QUILT
What the solver recommends next for each way the board can respond to QUILT.
Quick reference
Largest feedback groups after playing QUILT:
Research on QUILT
Game-tree analysis and word research for QUILT, with an explanation for each figure.
Optimal play
Opening with QUILT, a proven-optimal strategy averages 3.80 guesses and ranks #10,858 of 14,855 legal openers. The best proven opener, TARSE, averages 3.55.
In hard mode it averages 3.95 guesses at best and is rank #5,270 of the 7,453 openers that can still guarantee a solve within six guesses.
Our six-turn simulation says 3.74, at or below the proven-optimal 3.80, 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.
Related meanings
In WordNet's sense inventory, QUILT is a kind of bedding or join.
Synonyms comfort puff
Familiarity and learning
- Frequency
- QUILT sits in the intermediate band of the wordfreq scale, appearing about 2 times per million words of written English; the band marks it as a word most readers meet regularly.
In a sentence
Can I have a quilt?
My quilt is made of down.
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).