QUOTE
Yes, QUOTE was the Wordle answer on September 10, 2023 (Wordle #813).
As an opener, it rules out about 92.6% of possible answers.
Meaning and pronunciation
Pronunciation: /kwəʊt/[k(ʰ)wəʊt][kʰwoʊt]
- Noun
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A statement attributed to a person; a quotation.
“She loved reading quotes of famous people.”
- Noun
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A quotation mark.
- Verb
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To repeat (the exact words of a person).
“The writer quoted the president's speech.”
- Verb
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To prepare a summary of work to be done and set a price; to estimate.
“Can you believe they quoted me $5,000?”
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
YesIncluded in the Wordle guess list used by our tools.
Possible answer
YesIncluded among the answers considered by the solver.
Past Wordle answer
Used oncePast Wordle answer: September 10, 2023 (#813).
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See what the public sample says →How QUOTE performs as a guess
QUOTE 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 83.8% of games, misses completely in 16.2%, and leaves about 176 possible answers on average.
In the previous complete opener benchmark, it ranks #13,225 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.85 guesses in games solved within six turns.
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Useful pattern pages
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First-turn measures
All four describe QUOTE 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.
As an opening guess: previous benchmark
How QUOTE 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.
Composition
Feedback chances
Example solver route
One example route used by the solver.
This solver benchmark reaches QUOTE in 2 guesses.
Feedback distribution
QUOTE can come back 64 different ways. These are the most likely, and how many of the possible answers give each one:
Letter-value totals
Base letter-value totals for QUOTE; these do not show whether either game accepts the word.
Scrabble
Words With Friends
Scores shown are base values without double/triple letter or word bonuses.
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Strategy after playing QUOTE
What the solver recommends next for each way the board can respond to QUOTE.
Quick reference
Largest feedback groups after playing QUOTE:
Research on QUOTE
Game-tree analysis and word research for QUOTE, with an explanation for each figure.
Optimal play
Opening with QUOTE, a proven-optimal strategy averages 3.82 guesses and ranks #11,706 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 QUOTE can guarantee a solve within six guesses.
Our six-turn simulation says 3.85; proven optimal play reaches 3.82. The fixed strategy accounts for the difference.
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.
Related meanings
In WordNet's sense inventory, QUOTE is a kind of punctuation or selection.
Synonyms citation cite quotation
Familiarity and learning
- Frequency
- QUOTE sits in the common band of the wordfreq scale, appearing about 32 times per million words of written English; the band marks it as an everyday word almost every player will know.
- Learner level
- Appears in intermediate learner vocabulary (CEFR-J level B2); a word learners usually reach after the basics.
- Dominant sense
- Lancaster raters associated it most strongly with sound (3.8 of 5).
In a sentence
Can I quote you on that?
Don't quote me on that.
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); Learner levels: CEFR-J Wordlist ver 1.5, Tono Laboratory, TUFS; Lancaster Sensorimotor Norms (CC BY 4.0).