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

QUOIN

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

As an opener, it rules out about 88.6% of possible answers.

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Meaning and pronunciation

Pronunciation: /k(w)ɔɪn/

Noun

Any of the corner building blocks of a building, usually larger or more ornate than the surrounding blocks.

Noun

The keystone of an arch.

Verb

To wedge or steady with quoins.

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 QUOIN performs as a guess

Wordle accepts QUOIN 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 72.9% of games, misses completely in 27.1%, and leaves about 270 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete opener benchmark, it ranks #12,686 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.83 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.
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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 5th position Q__I_ Q in the 1st position and I in the 4th position _U__N U in the 2nd position and N in the 5th position

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

First-turn measures

All four describe QUOIN 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)
270 Avg remaining
0.0% Exact match
88.6% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 25% of evaluated openers
1.90 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opening guess: previous benchmark

How QUOIN 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.

3.83 Avg guesses
99.83% Solved within six
0.70 Spread of game lengths
#12,686 Rank among openers
Opening with QUOIN left 4 of the snapshot's answers unsolved after six guesses. A spread of 0.70 means those games clustered within about 0.70 of a guess of the 3.83 average. It ranks #12,686 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
0
2 guesses
25
3 guesses
713
4 guesses
1,272
5 guesses
313
6 guesses
27
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:
INOU

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
73%
Green tile
28%
All gray
27%

Feedback distribution

QUOIN can come back 59 different ways. These are the most likely, and how many of the possible answers give each one:

644 answers
289 answers
217 answers
159 answers
124 answers
123 answers
100 answers
99 answers
78 answers
44 answers
40 answers
40 answers
33 answers
32 answers
31 answers
30 answers
21 answers
19 answers
19 answers
18 answers
18 answers
17 answers
17 answers
15 answers
13 answers
12 answers
11 answers
11 answers
11 answers
9 answers

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

Q10U1O1I1N1
Total: 14 points

Words With Friends

Total: 16 points

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

Try next

REAST STILE TALER STARE SALET SLYER

Strategy after playing QUOIN

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

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing QUOIN:

27% chance
Suggested:
REAST
12% chance
Suggested:
STILE
9% chance
Suggested:
TALER

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

27.1% →
REAST 6.14 bits
12.2% →
STILE 5.32 bits
9.1% →
TALER 5.37 bits
6.7% →
STARE 4.69 bits
5.2% →
SALET 5.29 bits
5.2% →
SALET 5.02 bits
4.2% →
SLYER 4.48 bits
4.2% →
STILE 4.18 bits
3.3% →
TALER 5.13 bits
1.9% →
SLANT 4.02 bits

Research on QUOIN

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

Optimal play

Opening with QUOIN, a proven-optimal strategy averages 3.88 guesses and ranks #13,380 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 QUOIN can guarantee a solve within six guesses.

Our six-turn simulation says 3.83, at or below the proven-optimal 3.88, 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 KWOYN.

Rhymes with GROIN

Related meanings

In WordNet's sense inventory, QUOIN is a kind of wedge or key.

Synonyms corner

Familiarity and learning

Frequency
QUOIN 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); Word relations: Open English WordNet, 2025 edition (CC BY 4.0); Word frequency: wordfreq (data CC BY-SA 4.0).