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SPELT

Yes, SPELT was the Wordle answer on March 18, 2024 (Wordle #1003).

Meaning and pronunciation

Pronunciation: /ˈspɛlt/

Verb

simple past and past participle of spell

Noun

A grain, considered either a subspecies of wheat, Triticum aestivum subsp. spelta, or a separate species Triticum spelta or Triticum dicoccon.

Noun

Spelter.

Adjective

Of dried beans: pounded, crushed, or split.

Alternative forms: spelled

Source: Wiktionary contributors · CC BY-SA 4.0. Corrections.

Etymology

From Late Middle English spelde (past tense) and spelled, ispeled, ispelled (past participles). The past tense reflects an early Middle English syncopation of spellede, while the past participle remained largely disyllabic until the general Early Modern English reduction of the -ed suffix. In both cases, once the medial vowel was lost, the final alveolar stop underwent phonetic devoicing after the sonorant /l/, resulting in the modern -t spelling. Compare dwelt, felt, and smelt.

Source: Wiktionary (CC BY-SA)

In a sentence

How is your name spelt?
© tatoeba.org contributor MessDjaaf (CC BY 2.0 FR)
I spelt the next words correctly.
© tatoeba.org contributor Ussis (CC BY 2.0 FR)

Use SPELT in a puzzle

As an opener, it rules out about 94.4% of possible answers.

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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 18, 2024 (#1003).

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SPELT in Connections

1 recorded appearance in completed main-edition puzzles through . A category label alone does not establish a word's meaning.

How SPELT performs as a guess

SPELT is a possible answer, so it would solve about one game in 2,384 when every answer is treated as equally likely.

Played as an opener, it lands at least one colored tile in 85.3% of games, misses completely in 14.7%, and leaves about 134 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete opener benchmark, it ranks #536 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.59 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___T S in the 1st position and T in the 5th position S__L_ S in the 1st position and L in the 4th position _P__T P in the 2nd position and T in the 5th position SP_LT S in the 1st position, P in the 2nd position, L in the 4th position, and T in the 5th position

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

First-turn measures

All four describe SPELT 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.

5.17 Entropy (bits)
134 Avg remaining
0.04% Exact match
94.4% Avg ruled out

As an opening guess: previous benchmark

How SPELT 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.

3.59 Avg guesses
99.96% Solved within six
0.70 Spread of game lengths
#536 Rank among openers
Opening with SPELT left 1 of the snapshot's answers unsolved after six guesses. A spread of 0.70 means those games clustered within about 0.70 of a guess of the 3.59 average. It ranks #536 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
1
2 guesses
88
3 guesses
978
4 guesses
1,119
5 guesses
153
6 guesses
14

Composition

5/5 unique
1 vowels
Common:
ELST

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
85%
Green tile
34%
All gray
15%

Example solver route

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

One example route used by the solver.

This solver benchmark reaches SPELT in 4 guesses.

Feedback distribution

SPELT can come back 127 different ways. These are the most likely, and how many of the possible answers give each one:

351 answers
308 answers
144 answers
123 answers
120 answers
93 answers
73 answers
66 answers
65 answers
61 answers
59 answers
50 answers
49 answers
47 answers
46 answers
37 answers
31 answers
30 answers
26 answers
26 answers
26 answers
23 answers
22 answers
19 answers
19 answers
18 answers
17 answers
17 answers
16 answers
15 answers

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

S1P3E1L1T1
Total: 7 points

Words With Friends

Total: 9 points

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

Try next

ROANY RAINE CAROL NORTH LAREE TIARE

Strategy after playing SPELT

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

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing SPELT:

15% chance
Suggested:
ROANY
13% chance
Suggested:
RAINE
6% chance
Suggested:
CAROL

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

14.7% →
ROANY 5.86 bits
12.9% →
RAINE 5.28 bits
6.0% →
CAROL 4.99 bits
5.2% →
NORTH 5.01 bits
5.0% →
LAREE 4.57 bits
3.9% →
TIARE 4.71 bits
3.1% →
ROANY 4.69 bits
2.8% →
RIONE 4.38 bits
2.7% →
PRIMO 4.55 bits
2.6% →
AMISS 4.75 bits

Research on SPELT

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

Optimal play

Opening with SPELT, a proven-optimal strategy averages 3.62 guesses and ranks #614 of 14,855 legal openers. The best proven opener, TARSE, averages 3.55.

In hard mode it averages 3.73 guesses at best and is rank #151 of the 7,453 openers that can still guarantee a solve within six guesses.

Our six-turn simulation says 3.59, at or below the proven-optimal 3.62, 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.

Familiarity and learning

Frequency
SPELT sits in the intermediate band of the wordfreq scale, appearing about 2 times per million words of written English; the band marks it as a word most readers meet regularly.

Sources: Optimal-play values: Alex Selby's exhaustive Wordle analysis (MIT); Word frequency: wordfreq (data CC BY-SA 4.0).