5 FiveLetterWords
Accepted guess Not a possible answer C tier opener

SPANS

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

As an opener, it rules out about 88.9% of possible answers.

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Meaning and pronunciation

Noun

plural of span

Verb

third-person singular simple present indicative of span

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 SPANS performs as a guess

Wordle accepts SPANS 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 73.4% of games, misses completely in 26.6%, and leaves about 261 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete v5 benchmark, it ranks #8,196 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.72 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___S S in the 1st position and S in the 5th position S__N_ S in the 1st position and N in the 4th position _P__S P in the 2nd position and S in the 5th position

Try next

TOILE TALER LINER TRICE PROLE CANOE
Words starting with S Words ending with S

First-turn measures

4.18 Entropy (bits)
261 Avg remaining
0.0% Exact match
88.9% Avg ruled out

As an opener: v5 benchmark

How SPANS 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.

3.72 Avg guesses
99.8% Win rate
0.69 Volatility
#8,196 v5 opener rank
In the complete v5 snapshot, SPANS ranks #8,196 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
0
2 guesses
39
3 guesses
837
4 guesses
1,222
5 guesses
237
6 guesses
15

Composition

4/5 unique
1 vowels
Common:
ANS

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
73%
Green tile
33%
All gray
27%

Feedback distribution

73 possible patterns. Top outcomes:

628
329
177
133
124
120
91
90
77
46
44
34
31
27
27
26
26
25
21
21
19
18
14
13
12
12
11
11
10
9

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing SPANS:

27% chance
Suggested:
TOILE
14% chance
Suggested:
TALER
8% chance
Suggested:
LINER

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

26.6% →
TOILE 6.04 bits
13.9% →
TALER 5.57 bits
7.5% →
LINER 5.05 bits
5.6% →
TRICE 5.05 bits
5.3% →
TOILE 5.03 bits
5.1% →
PROLE 5.17 bits
3.9% →
CANOE 4.42 bits
3.8% →
ROUET 5.38 bits
3.3% →
GOIER 4.72 bits
1.9% →
THALE 3.81 bits

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

S1P3A1N1S1
Total: 7 points

Words With Friends

Total: 9 points

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