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SPARK

Yes, SPARK was the Wordle answer on March 19, 2025 (Wordle #1369).

As an opener, it rules out about 91.8% of possible answers.

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Meaning and pronunciation

Pronunciation: /ˈspɑːk/[ˈspɑːk]/ˈspɑɹk/

Noun

A small particle of glowing matter, either molten or on fire, resulting from an electrical surge or excessive heat created by friction.

Noun

A short or small burst of electrical discharge.

Verb

To trigger, kindle into activity (an argument, etc).

Verb

To light; to kindle.

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: March 19, 2025 (#1369).

See the full page for that puzzle: March 19, 2025 (#1369).

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

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How SPARK performs as a guess

SPARK 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 79.3% of games, misses completely in 20.7%, and leaves about 194 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete opener benchmark, it ranks #4,197 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.66 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___K S in the 1st position and K in the 5th position S__R_ S in the 1st position and R in the 4th position _P__K P in the 2nd position and K in the 5th position

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

First-turn measures

All four describe SPARK 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.

4.67 Entropy (bits)
194 Avg remaining
0.04% Exact match
91.8% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 63% of evaluated openers
1.27 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opening guess: previous benchmark

How SPARK 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.

3.66 Avg guesses
99.96% Solved within six
0.69 Spread of game lengths
#4,197 Rank among openers
Opening with SPARK 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 3.66 average. It ranks #4,197 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
1
2 guesses
59
3 guesses
902
4 guesses
1,189
5 guesses
189
6 guesses
13
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
1 vowels
Common:
ARS

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
79%
Green tile
32%
All gray
21%

Example solver route

R O A T E
C H I L D
S P A N K
S P A R K

One example route used by the solver.

This solver benchmark reaches SPARK in 4 guesses.

Feedback distribution

SPARK can come back 104 different ways. These are the most likely, and how many of the possible answers give each one:

491 answers
283 answers
272 answers
121 answers
111 answers
82 answers
80 answers
62 answers
55 answers
50 answers
47 answers
46 answers
40 answers
37 answers
32 answers
29 answers
26 answers
26 answers
26 answers
26 answers
24 answers
21 answers
20 answers
19 answers
18 answers
17 answers
16 answers
15 answers
15 answers
14 answers

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

S1P3A1R1K5
Total: 11 points

Words With Friends

Total: 12 points

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

Try next

TOILE TALER TOISE PIETY BLITE PRICE

Strategy after playing SPARK

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

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing SPARK:

21% chance
Suggested:
TOILE
12% chance
Suggested:
TOILE
11% chance
Suggested:
TOILE

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

20.7% →
TOILE 6.13 bits
11.9% →
TOILE 5.26 bits
11.5% →
TOILE 5.24 bits
5.1% →
TALER 4.69 bits
4.7% →
TOILE 5.13 bits
3.5% →
TOISE 4.91 bits
3.4% →
PIETY 4.96 bits
2.6% →
BLITE 4.53 bits
2.3% →
PRICE 4.38 bits
2.1% →
CLINE 4.02 bits

Research on SPARK

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

Optimal play

Opening with SPARK, a proven-optimal strategy averages 3.69 guesses and ranks #4,191 of 14,855 legal openers. The best proven opener, TARSE, averages 3.55.

In hard mode it averages 3.81 guesses at best and is rank #1,594 of the 7,453 openers that can still guarantee a solve within six guesses.

Our six-turn simulation says 3.66, at or below the proven-optimal 3.69, 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 SPAHRK.

Rhymes with SHARK STARK QUARK

Related meanings

In WordNet's sense inventory, SPARK is a kind of flash or look.

Synonyms LIGHT trip trigger arc discharge activate

Familiarity and learning

Frequency
SPARK sits in the intermediate band of the wordfreq scale, appearing about 10 times per million words of written English; the band marks it as a word most readers meet regularly.
Learner level
Appears in intermediate learner vocabulary (CEFR-J level B2); a word learners usually reach after the basics.
Age of acquisition
Typically learned around age 8, by Glasgow Norms speaker ratings.
Imageability
Imageability score: 79 of 100. Raters found it easy to picture.
Dominant sense
Lancaster raters associated it most strongly with sight (3.2 of 5).

In a sentence

I love you, there's just no spark.
© tatoeba.org contributor gleki (CC BY 2.0 FR)
I felt a spark when we met.
© 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).