5 FiveLetterWords
Past Wordle answer Possible answer Accepted guess B tier opener

SPEAR

Yes, SPEAR was the Wordle answer on March 3, 2025 (Wordle #1353).

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

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Meaning and pronunciation

Pronunciation: /spɪə̯(ɹ)//spɪɹ/

Noun

A long stick with a sharp tip used as a weapon for throwing or thrusting, or anything used to make a thrusting motion.

Noun

A lance with barbed prongs, used by fishermen to retrieve fish.

Verb

To pierce with a spear.

Verb

To penetrate or strike with, or as if with, any long narrow object; to make a thrusting motion that catches an object on the tip of a long device.

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 3, 2025 (#1353).

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

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How SPEAR performs as a guess

SPEAR 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 88.2% of games, misses completely in 11.8%, and leaves about 104 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete v5 benchmark, it ranks #1,264 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.61 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___R S in the 1st position and R in the 5th position S__A_ S in the 1st position and A in the 4th position _P__R P in the 2nd position and R in the 5th position

Try next

COUNT TOILE TALON DROIT TABLE CAIRN
Words starting with S Words ending with R

First-turn measures

5.38 Entropy (bits)
104 Avg remaining
0.04% Exact match
95.6% Avg ruled out

As an opener: v5 benchmark

How SPEAR 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.

3.61 Avg guesses
99.9% Win rate
0.71 Volatility
#1,264 v5 opener rank
In the complete v5 snapshot, SPEAR ranks #1,264 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
1
2 guesses
90
3 guesses
954
4 guesses
1,109
5 guesses
185
6 guesses
12

Composition

5/5 unique
2 vowels
Common:
AERS

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
88%
Green tile
34%
All gray
12%

Example solver route

R O A T E
G L E A M
C R O W D
S H E A R
S P E A R

One example route used by the solver.

This solver benchmark reaches SPEAR in 5 guesses. See the trap-family guide for similar endgames.

Feedback distribution

125 possible patterns. Top outcomes:

279
213
179
130
117
97
89
87
86
55
51
51
47
41
39
35
30
29
27
26
25
24
24
23
23
21
21
20
19
19

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing SPEAR:

12% chance
Suggested:
COUNT
9% chance
Suggested:
TOILE
8% chance
Suggested:
TALON

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

11.8% →
COUNT 5.64 bits
9.0% →
TOILE 5.43 bits
7.6% →
TALON 5.00 bits
5.5% →
DROIT 4.91 bits
5.0% →
TABLE 4.67 bits
4.1% →
CAIRN 4.23 bits
3.8% →
BOITE 4.49 bits
3.7% →
STINK 4.54 bits
3.6% →
TOILE 3.47 bits
2.3% →
POUTY 4.65 bits

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

S1P3E1A1R1
Total: 7 points

Words With Friends

Total: 8 points

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