5 FiveLetterWords
Accepted guess Not a possible answer F tier opener

QUINO

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

As an opener, it rules out about 88.0% of possible answers.

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Meaning and pronunciation

Noun

Archaic form of keno (“gambling game”).

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 QUINO performs as a guess

Wordle accepts QUINO 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 72.7% of games, misses completely in 27.3%, and leaves about 282 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete v5 benchmark, it ranks #13,332 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.86 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.

Q__N_ Q in the 1st position and N in the 4th position _U__O U in the 2nd position and O in the 5th position

Try next

REAST SOLER LATER TRACE SALET SADLY
Words starting with Q Words ending with O

First-turn measures

3.94 Entropy (bits)
282 Avg remaining
0.0% Exact match
88.0% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 20% of evaluated openers
2.00 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opener: v5 benchmark

How QUINO 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.

3.86 Avg guesses
99.9% Win rate
0.72 Volatility
#13,332 v5 opener rank
In the complete v5 snapshot, QUINO ranks #13,332 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
0
2 guesses
28
3 guesses
689
4 guesses
1,250
5 guesses
354
6 guesses
30
Top-ranked in the current bounded policy screen: SLANT. The policy minimizes misses within six first, then average guesses among wins (3.45 for the leader). Compare the ranking measures

Composition

5/5 unique
3 vowels
Common:
INOU

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
73%
Green tile
26%
All gray
27%

Feedback distribution

59 possible patterns. Top outcomes:

643
348
208
155
124
106
100
90
77
57
47
46
35
29
28
26
19
18
14
13
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11
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7

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing QUINO:

27% chance
Suggested:
REAST
15% chance
Suggested:
SOLER
9% chance
Suggested:
LATER

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

27.3% →
REAST 6.13 bits
14.8% →
SOLER 5.11 bits
8.8% →
LATER 5.24 bits
6.6% →
TRACE 5.11 bits
5.3% →
SALET 5.29 bits
4.5% →
LATER 5.00 bits
4.2% →
SADLY 4.20 bits
3.8% →
SAWER 4.63 bits
3.3% →
CANER 4.35 bits
2.4% →
CRUET 4.43 bits

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

Q10U1I1N1O1
Total: 14 points

Words With Friends

Total: 16 points

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