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SPASM

Yes, SPASM was the Wordle answer on October 3, 2025 (Wordle #1567).

As an opener, it rules out about 85.3% of possible answers.

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Meaning and pronunciation

Pronunciation: /ˈspæz.m̩/

Noun

A sudden, involuntary contraction of a muscle, a group of muscles, or a hollow organ.

“Jessica went into spasms after eating a peanut.”

Noun

A violent, excruciating seizure of pain.

Verb

To produce and undergo a spasm or series of spasms.

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: October 3, 2025 (#1567).

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

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How SPASM performs as a guess

SPASM is a possible answer, so it would solve about one game in 2,358 when every answer is treated as equally likely.

Played as an opener, it lands at least one colored tile in 67.5% of games, misses completely in 32.5%, and leaves about 346 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete v5 benchmark, it ranks #10,394 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.77 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___M S in the 1st position and M in the 5th position S__S_ S in the 1st position and S in the 4th position _P__M P in the 2nd position and M in the 5th position

Try next

TOILE TALER TRINE TRICE RIONE COURE
Words starting with S Words ending with M

First-turn measures

3.87 Entropy (bits)
346 Avg remaining
0.04% Exact match
85.3% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 17% of evaluated openers
2.08 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opener: v5 benchmark

How SPASM 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.

3.77 Avg guesses
99.9% Win rate
0.70 Volatility
#10,394 v5 opener rank
In the complete v5 snapshot, SPASM ranks #10,394 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
1
2 guesses
36
3 guesses
775
4 guesses
1,251
5 guesses
269
6 guesses
20
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

4/5 unique
1 vowels
Common:
AS

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
68%
Green tile
32%
All gray
32%

Example solver route

R O A T E
S L I C K
S W A S H
S P A S M

One example route used by the solver.

This solver benchmark reaches SPASM in 4 guesses.

Feedback distribution

72 possible patterns. Top outcomes:

766
368
159
148
116
102
67
63
55
47
42
38
33
27
26
24
21
19
15
14
13
13
12
11
10
9
8
8
7
6

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing SPASM:

32% chance
Suggested:
TOILE
16% chance
Suggested:
TALER
7% chance
Suggested:
TRINE

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

32.5% →
TOILE 6.02 bits
15.6% →
TALER 5.55 bits
6.7% →
TRINE 5.12 bits
6.3% →
TRICE 5.09 bits
4.9% →
RIONE 5.24 bits
4.3% →
COURE 5.15 bits
2.8% →
MORNE 4.62 bits
2.7% →
ROUTE 5.03 bits
2.3% →
LEANT 3.93 bits
2.0% →
PARTE 4.54 bits

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

S1P3A1S1M3
Total: 9 points

Words With Friends

Total: 11 points

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