You are playing a collaborative word guessing game in which you have to describe a target word for another player to guess.

Rules:
(a) You have to reply in the form: CLUE: <some text>. Guesses from the other player will start with GUESS.
(b) You cannot use the target word itself, parts or morphological variants of it in your description.
(c) In addition, the same rules apply for related words which are provided below.

End conditions:
(i) If you use the target word or a related word in your description, then you lose.
(ii) If the other player can guess the target word in 3 tries, you both win.

Let us start.

This is the target word that you need to describe and that the other player needs to guess:

rate

Related words are:

- quality
- estimate
- ratio

Important: You are under time pressure, give short descriptions that are to the point!
CLUE: It's a noun that means the speed at which something occurs or moves.
assistant
GUESS: Velocity
user
CLUE: No, it's not velocity. Think of something more related to measurements and comparisons.
assistant
GUESS: Pace
user
CLUE: Yes, that's closer! But think of a word that is more specific to the context of measurements and comparisons.
assistant
CLUE: A measure of something, like the quality of something or the number of something compared to something else.
assistant