5 FiveLetterWords
Accepted guess Not a possible answer F tier opener

SPICS

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

As an opener, it rules out about 85.0% of possible answers.

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Meaning and pronunciation

Noun

plural of spic

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.

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__C_ S in the 1st position and C in the 4th position _P__S P in the 2nd position and S in the 5th position

Try next

ROATE TILDE LEANT CARLE GRATE PARLE
Words starting with S Words ending with S

First-turn measures

3.89 Entropy (bits)
354 Avg remaining
0.0% Exact match
85.0% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 18% of evaluated openers
2.06 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opener: v5 benchmark

How SPICS 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.

3.74 Avg guesses
99.9% Win rate
0.69 Volatility
#8,819 v5 opener rank
In the complete v5 snapshot, SPICS ranks #8,819 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
0
2 guesses
41
3 guesses
804
4 guesses
1,257
5 guesses
232
6 guesses
17
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:
IS

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
65%
Green tile
32%
All gray
35%

Feedback distribution

71 possible patterns. Top outcomes:

818
221
173
148
130
124
112
87
45
38
37
28
25
25
25
24
20
20
18
17
16
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16
13
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11
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10

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing SPICS:

35% chance
Suggested:
ROATE
9% chance
Suggested:
TILDE
7% chance
Suggested:
LEANT

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

34.7% →
ROATE 6.11 bits
9.4% →
TILDE 5.26 bits
7.3% →
LEANT 5.41 bits
6.3% →
CARLE 5.53 bits
5.5% →
GRATE 5.08 bits
5.3% →
PARLE 5.43 bits
4.7% →
ROATE 5.48 bits
3.7% →
THALE 4.93 bits
1.9% →
CANER 4.47 bits
1.6% →
PALET 4.49 bits

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

S1P3I1C3S1
Total: 9 points

Words With Friends

Total: 11 points

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