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This list has 9 Wordle guesses; 3 are possible answers. The calculator compared 14,786 Wordle guesses against those 3 answers. Possible-answer status helps narrow a puzzle, but does not predict which word Wordle will choose.

Past Wordle answers: SPIKE (August 5, 2021); SPOKE (December 13, 2022).

Top-ranked splitter SPIKE
Average remaining
1.0
Worst branch
1
Information
1.58 bits

It fits this list and can win immediately, while still splitting the alternatives well.

Hard Mode SPIKE keeps every stated clue.

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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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SPIKE

A sort of very large nail.

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Past Wordle answer: August 5, 2021.

SPIKY

Of a plant: producing spikes (“ears (as of corn); inflorescences in which sessile flowers are arranged on unbranched elongated axes”).

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Not found among the past answers in this archive.

SPOKE

A support structure that connects the axle or the hub of a wheel to the rim.

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Past Wordle answer: December 13, 2022.

SKIPS

plural of skip

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OKAPI

A ruminant (Okapia johnstoni) found in the rainforests of the Congo, related to the giraffe but with a much shorter neck, a reddish-brown coat, and zebra-like stripes on the hindquarters.

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SKEPS

plural of skep

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SPAKE

Alternative form of spoke (of a wheel).

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SPEKS

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SPIKS

plural of spik

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