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

SQUIT

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

As an opener, it rules out about 88.3% of possible answers.

Meaning and pronunciation

Pronunciation: /skwɪt/

Noun

A person of low status.

Noun

Nonsense; amusing stories.

Verb

To disconnect (an IRC server) from a network.

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 SQUIT performs as a guess

Wordle accepts SQUIT 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 70.6% of games, misses completely in 29.4%, and leaves about 277 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete opener benchmark, it ranks #9,710 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.76 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.

First-turn measures

All four describe SQUIT 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.

4.22 Entropy (bits)
277 Avg remaining
0.0% Exact match
88.3% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 34% of evaluated openers
1.73 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opening guess: previous benchmark

How SQUIT 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.

3.76 Avg guesses
99.75% Solved within six
0.71 Spread of game lengths
#9,710 Rank among openers
Opening with SQUIT left 6 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 3.76 average. It ranks #9,710 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
0
2 guesses
34
3 guesses
815
4 guesses
1,214
5 guesses
261
6 guesses
24
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:
ISTU

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
71%
Green tile
35%
All gray
29%

Feedback distribution

SQUIT can come back 71 different ways. These are the most likely, and how many of the possible answers give each one:

699 answers
251 answers
166 answers
148 answers
124 answers
89 answers
77 answers
72 answers
67 answers
66 answers
52 answers
50 answers
34 answers
29 answers
27 answers
24 answers
24 answers
22 answers
22 answers
21 answers
21 answers
20 answers
20 answers
20 answers
17 answers
17 answers
16 answers
14 answers
12 answers
11 answers

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

S1Q10U1I1T1
Total: 14 points

Words With Friends

Total: 15 points

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

Strategy after playing SQUIT

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

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing SQUIT:

29% chance
Suggested:
CARLE
11% chance
Suggested:
ANILE
7% chance
Suggested:
TARTE

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

29.4%
CARLE 6.19 bits
10.6%
ANILE 5.21 bits
7.0%
TARTE 5.53 bits
6.2%
PARLE 5.31 bits
5.2%
MARLE 4.79 bits
3.7%
HAOLE 5.03 bits
3.2%
CRANE 4.99 bits
3.0%
LEARE 4.76 bits
2.8%
TITHE 4.44 bits
2.8%
CLONE 4.61 bits

Research on SQUIT

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

Optimal play

Opening with SQUIT, a proven-optimal strategy averages 3.81 guesses and ranks #11,132 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 SQUIT can guarantee a solve within six guesses.

Our six-turn simulation says 3.76, at or below the proven-optimal 3.81, 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 SKWIHT. 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.