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

QUORL

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

No dictionary definition for QUORL is recorded in our sourced data.

As an opener, it rules out about 90.9% of possible answers.

Meaning and pronunciation

We do not have a sourced definition for this word yet.

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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 QUORL performs as a guess

Wordle accepts QUORL 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 79.0% of games, misses completely in 21.0%, and leaves about 216 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete opener benchmark, it ranks #11,235 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 QUORL 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.

4.27 Entropy (bits)
216 Avg remaining
0.0% Exact match
90.9% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 37% of evaluated openers
1.68 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opening guess: previous benchmark

How QUORL 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
99.83% Solved within six
0.71 Spread of game lengths
#11,235 Rank among openers
Opening with QUORL left 4 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 #11,235 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
0
2 guesses
31
3 guesses
760
4 guesses
1,262
5 guesses
266
6 guesses
31
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:
LORU

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
79%
Green tile
29%
All gray
21%

Feedback distribution

QUORL can come back 60 different ways. These are the most likely, and how many of the possible answers give each one:

498 answers
341 answers
251 answers
157 answers
105 answers
88 answers
82 answers
80 answers
77 answers
73 answers
55 answers
53 answers
52 answers
41 answers
40 answers
36 answers
35 answers
28 answers
26 answers
25 answers
21 answers
20 answers
16 answers
12 answers
11 answers
10 answers
9 answers
9 answers
9 answers
7 answers

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

Q10U1O1R1L1
Total: 14 points

Words With Friends

Total: 16 points

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

Strategy after playing QUORL

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

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing QUORL:

21% chance
Suggested:
SIENT
14% chance
Suggested:
SAICE
11% chance
Suggested:
STALE

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

21.0%
SIENT 6.19 bits
14.4%
SAICE 5.43 bits
10.6%
STALE 5.47 bits
6.6%
CONTE 5.23 bits
4.4%
ROWER 4.16 bits
3.7%
SHINE 4.59 bits
3.5%
STANE 5.17 bits
3.4%
SHINE 4.07 bits
3.2%
SAMEN 4.48 bits
3.1%
SEITY 4.67 bits

Research on QUORL

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

Optimal play

Opening with QUORL, a proven-optimal strategy averages 3.83 guesses and ranks #11,930 of 14,855 legal openers. The best proven opener, TARSE, averages 3.55.

In hard mode it averages 3.97 guesses at best and is rank #5,704 of the 7,453 openers that can still guarantee a solve within six guesses.

Our six-turn simulation says 3.79, at or below the proven-optimal 3.83, 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

Two syllables, stress on the first syllable Say it KWAWRUHL. Estimated pronunciation

This pronunciation is machine-estimated, not taken from a pronunciation dictionary.

Sources: Optimal-play values: Alex Selby's exhaustive Wordle analysis (MIT); Pronunciation: CMU Pronouncing Dictionary (BSD), with machine estimates from the g2p_en model.