5 FiveLetterWords
Accepted guess Not a possible answer B tier opener

SPAIN

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

As an opener, it rules out about 93.8% of possible answers.

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Meaning and pronunciation

Pronunciation: /speɪn//spæɪn//spen/

Proper noun

A country in Southern Europe, including most of the Iberian peninsula. Official name: Kingdom of Spain. Capital and largest city: Madrid.

Proper noun

An English ethnic surname transferred from the nickname for someone with Spanish ancestry.

Alternative forms: Spayen

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 SPAIN performs as a guess

Wordle accepts SPAIN 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 82.8% of games, misses completely in 17.2%, and leaves about 146 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete v5 benchmark, it ranks #1,159 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.60 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.

S___N S in the 1st position and N in the 5th position S__I_ S in the 1st position and I in the 4th position _P__N P in the 2nd position and N in the 5th position

Try next

ROUET TALER TRIDE DROLE ROUTE GRICE
Words starting with S Words ending with N

First-turn measures

5.01 Entropy (bits)
146 Avg remaining
0.0% Exact match
93.8% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 84% of evaluated openers
0.94 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opener: v5 benchmark

How SPAIN 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
99.9% Win rate
0.70 Volatility
#1,159 v5 opener rank
In the complete v5 snapshot, SPAIN ranks #1,159 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
0
2 guesses
72
3 guesses
995
4 guesses
1,094
5 guesses
177
6 guesses
14
Top-ranked in the current bounded policy screen: SLANT. The policy minimizes misses within six first, then average guesses among wins (3.45 for the leader). Compare the ranking measures

Composition

5/5 unique
2 vowels
Common:
AINS

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
83%
Green tile
35%
All gray
17%

Feedback distribution

118 possible patterns. Top outcomes:

405
271
174
115
109
88
86
80
75
65
49
47
39
37
37
36
34
34
33
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28
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25
22
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14

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing SPAIN:

17% chance
Suggested:
ROUET
11% chance
Suggested:
TALER
7% chance
Suggested:
TRIDE

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

17.2% →
ROUET 5.92 bits
11.5% →
TALER 5.62 bits
7.4% →
TRIDE 5.35 bits
4.9% →
DROLE 4.84 bits
4.6% →
ROUTE 5.08 bits
3.7% →
ROUTE 5.22 bits
3.6% →
ROUET 4.81 bits
3.4% →
GRICE 4.22 bits
3.2% →
POREY 5.01 bits
2.8% →
TONEY 4.24 bits

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

S1P3A1I1N1
Total: 7 points

Words With Friends

Total: 9 points

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