5 FiveLetterWords
Accepted guess Not a possible answer F tier opener

QUOLL

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

As an opener, it rules out about 81.7% of possible answers.

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Meaning and pronunciation

Pronunciation: /ˈkwɒl//ˈkwəʊl//ˈkwoʊl/

Noun

Any of the various carnivorous marsupials of the genus Dasyurus found in Australia and New Guinea, roughly the size of a domestic cat.

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 QUOLL performs as a guess

Wordle accepts QUOLL 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 61.6% of games, misses completely in 38.4%, and leaves about 432 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete v5 benchmark, it ranks #14,447 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.95 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___L Q in the 1st position and L in the 5th position Q__L_ Q in the 1st position and L in the 4th position _U__L U in the 2nd position and L in the 5th position

Try next

TIARE TONER SAICE SNARE STANE SIREN
Words starting with Q Words ending with L

First-turn measures

3.45 Entropy (bits)
432 Avg remaining
0.0% Exact match
81.7% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 6% of evaluated openers
2.50 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opener: v5 benchmark

How QUOLL 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.

3.95 Avg guesses
99.9% Win rate
0.74 Volatility
#14,447 v5 opener rank
In the complete v5 snapshot, QUOLL ranks #14,447 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
0
2 guesses
17
3 guesses
611
4 guesses
1,254
5 guesses
415
6 guesses
54
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

4/5 unique
2 vowels
Common:
LOU

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
62%
Green tile
29%
All gray
38%

Feedback distribution

45 possible patterns. Top outcomes:

905
277
205
168
141
108
76
68
47
45
38
37
22
20
20
19
17
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10
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9
9
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6
5
5

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing QUOLL:

38% chance
Suggested:
TIARE
12% chance
Suggested:
TONER
9% chance
Suggested:
SAICE

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

38.4% →
TIARE 6.23 bits
11.7% →
TONER 5.37 bits
8.7% →
SAICE 5.30 bits
7.1% →
SNARE 4.76 bits
6.0% →
STANE 5.37 bits
4.6% →
SIREN 4.29 bits
3.2% →
RAINE 4.52 bits
2.9% →
PAISE 4.87 bits
2.0% →
CRUET 3.93 bits
1.9% →
SILER 4.14 bits

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

Q10U1O1L1L1
Total: 14 points

Words With Friends

Total: 17 points

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