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SPACE

Yes, SPACE was the Wordle answer on September 1, 2023 (Wordle #804).

As an opener, it rules out about 95.0% of possible answers.

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Meaning and pronunciation

Pronunciation: /speɪs/

Noun

Unlimited or generalized extent, physical or otherwise.

Noun

Of time.

Verb

To set some distance apart.

“Faye had spaced the pots at 8-inch intervals on the windowsill.”

Verb

To insert or utilise spaces in a written text.

“This paragraph seems badly spaced.”

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

Yes

Included among the answers considered by the solver.

Past Wordle answer

Used once

Past Wordle answer: September 1, 2023 (#804).

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The possible-answer list is the solver's current list and may change when Wordle adds new answers.

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How SPACE performs as a guess

SPACE 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 86.5% of games, misses completely in 13.5%, and leaves about 120 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete opener benchmark, it ranks #910 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.60 guesses in games solved within six turns.

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Useful pattern pages

If you only know part of the word, start with one of these matching patterns.

S___E S in the 1st position and E in the 5th position S__C_ S in the 1st position and C in the 4th position _P__E P in the 2nd position and E in the 5th position

Explore lists that match the beginning, ending or letters in SPACE.

First-turn measures

All four describe SPACE 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.

5.29 Entropy (bits)
120 Avg remaining
0.04% Exact match
95.0% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 95% of evaluated openers
0.65 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opening guess: previous benchmark

How SPACE 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.

3.60 Avg guesses
99.96% Solved within six
0.69 Spread of game lengths
#910 Rank among openers
Opening with SPACE left 1 of the snapshot's answers unsolved after six guesses. A spread of 0.69 means those games clustered within about 0.69 of a guess of the 3.60 average. It ranks #910 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
1
2 guesses
84
3 guesses
960
4 guesses
1,135
5 guesses
164
6 guesses
9
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:
AES

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
86%
Green tile
42%
All gray
14%

Example solver route

R O A T E
S L U M P
S P A C E

One example route used by the solver.

This solver benchmark reaches SPACE in 3 guesses.

Feedback distribution

SPACE can come back 126 different ways. These are the most likely, and how many of the possible answers give each one:

321 answers
254 answers
210 answers
122 answers
101 answers
90 answers
64 answers
62 answers
62 answers
59 answers
51 answers
47 answers
46 answers
37 answers
36 answers
35 answers
35 answers
34 answers
32 answers
32 answers
26 answers
26 answers
26 answers
25 answers
25 answers
22 answers
19 answers
18 answers
17 answers
17 answers

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

S1P3A1C3E1
Total: 9 points

Words With Friends

Total: 11 points

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

Try next

DROIT TENOR TALON GOIER ALTER SHUNT

Strategy after playing SPACE

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

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing SPACE:

14% chance
Suggested:
DROIT
11% chance
Suggested:
TENOR
9% chance
Suggested:
TALON

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

13.5% →
DROIT 5.69 bits
10.7% →
TENOR 5.14 bits
8.8% →
TALON 5.28 bits
5.1% →
GOIER 4.40 bits
4.3% →
ALTER 4.69 bits
3.8% →
SHUNT 4.50 bits
2.7% →
COULD 4.68 bits
2.6% →
DRAIN 4.31 bits
2.6% →
HOIST 4.82 bits
2.5% →
PILOT 4.81 bits

Research on SPACE

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

Optimal play

Opening with SPACE, a proven-optimal strategy averages 3.62 guesses and ranks #633 of 14,855 legal openers. The best proven opener, TARSE, averages 3.55.

In hard mode it averages 3.75 guesses at best and is rank #280 of the 7,453 openers that can still guarantee a solve within six guesses.

Our six-turn simulation says 3.60, at or below the proven-optimal 3.62, 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 SPAYS.

Rhymes with PLACE GRACE CHASE TRACE BRACE

Related meanings

In WordNet's sense inventory, SPACE is a kind of attribute or location.

Synonyms PLACE distance infinite BLANK quad

Familiarity and learning

Frequency
SPACE sits in the common band of the wordfreq scale, appearing about 170 times per million words of written English; the band marks it as an everyday word almost every player will know.
Learner level
Appears in beginner learner vocabulary (CEFR-J level A2); among the first words English learners study.
Age of acquisition
Typically learned around age 6, by Glasgow Norms speaker ratings.
Imageability
Imageability score: 70 of 100. Raters found it easy to picture.
Dominant sense
Lancaster raters associated it most strongly with sight (3.8 of 5).

In a sentence

We don't have the space.
© tatoeba.org contributor CK (CC BY 2.0 FR)
Get out of my space.
© tatoeba.org contributor Nuel (CC BY 2.0 FR)

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; Glasgow Norms (CC BY 4.0); Lancaster Sensorimotor Norms (CC BY 4.0).