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QUOTA

Yes, QUOTA was the Wordle answer on March 30, 2025 (Wordle #1380).

As an opener, it rules out about 90.5% of possible answers.

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Meaning and pronunciation

Pronunciation: /ˈkwəʊ.tə//ˈkwoʊ.tə/[ˈkwoʊ.ɾə]

Noun

A proportional part or share; the share or proportion assigned to each in a division.

Noun

A prescribed number or percentage that may serve as, for example, a maximum, a minimum, or a goal.

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

Yes

Included among the answers considered by the solver.

Past Wordle answer

Used once

Past Wordle answer: March 30, 2025 (#1380).

See the full page for that puzzle: March 30, 2025 (#1380).

The possible-answer list is the solver's current list and may change when Wordle adds new answers.

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How QUOTA performs as a guess

QUOTA is a possible answer, so it would solve about one game in 2,374 when every answer is treated as equally likely.

Played as an opener, it lands at least one colored tile in 82.4% of games, misses completely in 17.6%, and leaves about 225 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete opener benchmark, it ranks #12,706 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.83 guesses in games solved within six turns.

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Useful pattern pages

If you only know part of the word, start with one of these matching patterns.

Q___A Q in the 1st position and A in the 5th position Q__T_ Q in the 1st position and T in the 4th position _U__A U in the 2nd position and A in the 5th position

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

First-turn measures

All four describe QUOTA 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.

4.16 Entropy (bits)
225 Avg remaining
0.04% Exact match
90.5% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 30% of evaluated openers
1.78 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opening guess: previous benchmark

How QUOTA 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
99.70% Solved within six
0.74 Spread of game lengths
#12,706 Rank among openers
Opening with QUOTA left 7 of the snapshot's answers unsolved after six guesses. A spread of 0.74 means those games clustered within about 0.74 of a guess of the 3.83 average. It ranks #12,706 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
1
2 guesses
33
3 guesses
731
4 guesses
1,207
5 guesses
344
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
3 vowels
Common:
AOTU

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
82%
Green tile
26%
All gray
18%

Example solver route

R O A T E
Q U O T A

One example route used by the solver.

This solver benchmark reaches QUOTA in 2 guesses.

Feedback distribution

QUOTA can come back 62 different ways. These are the most likely, and how many of the possible answers give each one:

463 answers
418 answers
182 answers
155 answers
152 answers
148 answers
109 answers
97 answers
81 answers
57 answers
46 answers
42 answers
40 answers
39 answers
32 answers
32 answers
24 answers
21 answers
20 answers
15 answers
14 answers
12 answers
11 answers
11 answers
10 answers
10 answers
9 answers
9 answers
9 answers
9 answers

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

Q10U1O1T1A1
Total: 14 points

Words With Friends

Total: 15 points

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

Try next

CARLE SILER SLIER SHIRT SENOR SMILE

Strategy after playing QUOTA

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

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing QUOTA:

20% chance
Suggested:
CARLE
18% chance
Suggested:
SILER
8% chance
Suggested:
SILER

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

19.5% →
CARLE 5.49 bits
17.6% →
SILER 5.82 bits
7.7% →
SILER 4.95 bits
6.5% →
SLIER 4.86 bits
6.4% →
SHIRT 5.32 bits
6.2% →
SENOR 4.37 bits
4.6% →
SMILE 4.32 bits
4.1% →
CRUSE 4.80 bits
3.4% →
MANOR 4.87 bits
2.4% →
TONER 4.28 bits

Research on QUOTA

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

Optimal play

Opening with QUOTA, a proven-optimal strategy averages 3.86 guesses and ranks #13,088 of 14,855 legal openers. The best proven opener, TARSE, averages 3.55.

In hard mode it averages 4.01 guesses at best and is rank #6,374 of the 7,453 openers that can still guarantee a solve within six guesses.

Our six-turn simulation says 3.83, at or below the proven-optimal 3.86, 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 KWOHTUH.

Rhymes with PROTO

Related meanings

In WordNet's sense inventory, QUOTA is a kind of number or allocation.

Familiarity and learning

Frequency
QUOTA sits in the intermediate band of the wordfreq scale, appearing about 3 times per million words of written English; the band marks it as a word most readers meet regularly.
Dominant sense
Lancaster raters associated it most strongly with sight (2.2 of 5).

In a sentence

Did you meet your quota?
© tatoeba.org contributor CK (CC BY 2.0 FR)
How can I meet this quota?
© tatoeba.org contributor CM (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); Lancaster Sensorimotor Norms (CC BY 4.0).