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This list has 6 Wordle guesses; 2 are possible answers. The calculator compared 14,786 Wordle guesses against those 2 answers. Possible-answer status helps narrow a puzzle, but does not predict which word Wordle will choose.

Past Wordle answers: SPICE (August 22, 2023); SPICY (September 30, 2021).

Top-ranked splitter SPICE
Average remaining
1.0
Worst branch
1
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It fits this list and can win immediately, while still splitting the alternatives well.

Hard Mode SPICE keeps every stated clue.

It is legal under the clues represented on this page. If you also know where a yellow letter cannot go, check that extra detail in the full Solver.

No obvious one-slot trap. The possible answers do not form a three-word-or-larger family that differs in only one position.

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SPICE

Aromatic or pungent plant matter (usually dried) used to season or flavor food.

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Past Wordle answer: August 22, 2023.

SPICY

Of, pertaining to, or containing spice.

“He prepared a spicy casserole.”

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Past Wordle answer: September 30, 2021.

EPICS

plural of epic

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Not found among the past answers in this archive.

SPICA

A spike (kind of inflorescence in which sessile flowers are arranged on an unbranched elongated axis).

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Not found among the past answers in this archive.

SPICK

Alternative spelling of spic.

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SPICS

plural of spic

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Not found among the past answers in this archive.

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