5 FiveLetterWords
Accepted guess Not a possible answer F tier opener

SPAWS

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

As an opener, it rules out about 84.0% of possible answers.

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Meaning and pronunciation

Noun

plural of spaw

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 SPAWS performs as a guess

Wordle accepts SPAWS 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 66.6% of games, misses completely in 33.4%, and leaves about 378 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete v5 benchmark, it ranks #12,107 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.81 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__W_ S in the 1st position and W in the 4th position _P__S P in the 2nd position and S in the 5th position

Try next

TOILE TALER TRINE TRICE POREY ROUET
Words starting with S Words ending with S

First-turn measures

3.66 Entropy (bits)
378 Avg remaining
0.0% Exact match
84.0% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 11% of evaluated openers
2.29 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opener: v5 benchmark

How SPAWS 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.

3.81 Avg guesses
100.0% Win rate
0.70 Volatility
#12,107 v5 opener rank
In the complete v5 snapshot, SPAWS ranks #12,107 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
0
2 guesses
34
3 guesses
722
4 guesses
1,262
5 guesses
319
6 guesses
16
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)
67%
Green tile
28%
All gray
33%

Feedback distribution

63 possible patterns. Top outcomes:

787
420
154
148
138
96
84
57
50
40
35
34
27
25
24
20
18
17
13
13
12
11
10
9
8
6
6
6
6
6

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing SPAWS:

33% chance
Suggested:
TOILE
18% chance
Suggested:
TALER
7% chance
Suggested:
TRINE

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

33.4% →
TOILE 6.01 bits
17.8% →
TALER 5.45 bits
6.5% →
TRINE 5.12 bits
6.3% →
TRICE 5.07 bits
5.9% →
POREY 5.10 bits
4.1% →
ROUET 5.43 bits
3.6% →
DRONE 5.17 bits
2.4% →
LEANT 3.91 bits
2.1% →
PARTE 4.65 bits
1.7% →
TALER 4.26 bits

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

S1P3A1W4S1
Total: 10 points

Words With Friends

Total: 11 points

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