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

QUITS

QUITS 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.

Meaning and pronunciation

Pronunciation: /kwɪts/

Adjective

On equal monetary terms; neither owing or being owed.

“Here's the last of the money you lent me. We're quits now, right?”

Verb

third-person singular simple present indicative of quit

Noun

plural of quit

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 QUITS performs as a guess

Wordle accepts QUITS 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 70.6% of games, misses completely in 29.4%, and leaves about 286 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete opener benchmark, it ranks #11,211 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.79 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 QUITS 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.

4.04 Entropy (bits)
286 Avg remaining
0.0% Exact match
88.0% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 25% of evaluated openers
1.91 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opening guess: previous benchmark

How QUITS 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.

3.79 Avg guesses
99.75% Solved within six
0.71 Spread of game lengths
#11,211 Rank among openers
Opening with QUITS left 6 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 3.79 average. It ranks #11,211 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
0
2 guesses
43
3 guesses
739
4 guesses
1,264
5 guesses
274
6 guesses
28
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:
ISTU

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
71%
Green tile
25%
All gray
29%

Feedback distribution

QUITS can come back 67 different ways. These are the most likely, and how many of the possible answers give each one:

699 answers
219 answers
202 answers
186 answers
126 answers
106 answers
98 answers
84 answers
76 answers
52 answers
51 answers
50 answers
50 answers
40 answers
32 answers
24 answers
24 answers
22 answers
21 answers
20 answers
18 answers
16 answers
15 answers
10 answers
10 answers
9 answers
9 answers
7 answers
6 answers
6 answers

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

Q10U1I1T1S1
Total: 14 points

Words With Friends

Total: 15 points

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

Strategy after playing QUITS

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

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing QUITS:

29% chance
Suggested:
CARLE
9% chance
Suggested:
PARLE
9% chance
Suggested:
LINER

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

29.4%
CARLE 6.19 bits
9.2%
PARLE 5.59 bits
8.5%
LINER 5.30 bits
7.8%
TALER 5.38 bits
5.3%
CRANE 5.03 bits
4.5%
CLONE 5.11 bits
4.1%
STARE 4.79 bits
3.5%
MARLE 4.30 bits
3.2%
TITHE 4.27 bits
2.2%
PARLE 4.62 bits

Research on QUITS

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

Optimal play

Opening with QUITS, a proven-optimal strategy averages 3.84 guesses and ranks #12,421 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 QUITS can guarantee a solve within six guesses.

Our six-turn simulation says 3.79, at or below the proven-optimal 3.84, 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 KWIHTS.

Rhymes with SHITS BLITZ BRITS FRITZ SPITS

Related meanings

Synonyms EQUAL

Opposites unequal

Familiarity and learning

Frequency
QUITS 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

I think we're quits now.
© tatoeba.org contributor araneo (CC BY 2.0 FR)
I am finally quits with the man.
© tatoeba.org contributor AlanF_US (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).