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SPATE

Yes, SPATE was the Wordle answer on April 21, 2025 (Wordle #1402).

As an opener, it rules out about 95.6% of possible answers.

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Meaning and pronunciation

Pronunciation: /speɪt/

Noun

A (sudden) flood or inundation of water; specifically, a flood in or overflow of a river or other watercourse due to heavy rain or melting snow; (uncountable, archaic) flooding, inundation.

Noun

A sudden heavy downpour of rain.

Verb

To (suddenly) flood or inundate (a river or other watercourse) with water.

Verb

To (suddenly) rain heavily; to pour.

Alternative forms: spat

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: April 21, 2025 (#1402).

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

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How SPATE performs as a guess

SPATE is a possible answer, so it would solve about one game in 2,359 when every answer is treated as equally likely.

Played as an opener, it lands at least one colored tile in 87.5% of games, misses completely in 12.5%, and leaves about 103 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete v5 benchmark, it ranks #220 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.57 guesses in games solved within six turns.

Try your feedback pattern

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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__T_ S in the 1st position and T in the 4th position _P__E P in the 2nd position and E in the 5th position

Try next

COULD OLDER CAROL GOIER COURT REGAL
Words starting with S Words ending with E

First-turn measures

5.48 Entropy (bits)
103 Avg remaining
0.04% Exact match
95.6% Avg ruled out

As an opener: v5 benchmark

How SPATE 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.

3.57 Avg guesses
100.0% Win rate
0.70 Volatility
#220 v5 opener rank
In the complete v5 snapshot, SPATE ranks #220 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
1
2 guesses
98
3 guesses
985
4 guesses
1,111
5 guesses
146
6 guesses
12

Composition

5/5 unique
2 vowels
Common:
AEST

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
88%
Green tile
42%
All gray
12%

Example solver route

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

One example route used by the solver.

This solver benchmark reaches SPATE in 3 guesses.

Feedback distribution

135 possible patterns. Top outcomes:

294
217
188
117
97
85
79
69
68
67
60
47
43
37
36
35
32
29
29
27
26
25
24
22
22
20
19
19
19
19

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing SPATE:

12% chance
Suggested:
COULD
9% chance
Suggested:
OLDER
8% chance
Suggested:
CAROL

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

12.5% →
COULD 5.63 bits
9.2% →
OLDER 5.06 bits
8.0% →
CAROL 5.33 bits
5.0% →
GOIER 4.39 bits
4.1% →
COURT 5.02 bits
3.6% →
REGAL 4.66 bits
3.3% →
ENTER 4.61 bits
2.9% →
CRINE 4.18 bits
2.9% →
TALON 4.27 bits
2.8% →
SLINK 4.32 bits

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

S1P3A1T1E1
Total: 7 points

Words With Friends

Total: 8 points

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