5 FiveLetterWords
Possible answer Not used yet B tier opener

SPIED

SPIED is on the solver's possible-answer list but has not appeared as a Wordle answer yet.

As an opener, it rules out about 93.6% of possible answers.

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Meaning and pronunciation

Verb

simple past and past participle of spy

Alternative forms: spyed

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

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 SPIED performs as a guess

SPIED is a possible answer, so it would solve about one game in 2,358 when every answer is treated as equally likely.

Played as an opener, it lands at least one colored tile in 82.6% of games, misses completely in 17.4%, and leaves about 151 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete v5 benchmark, it ranks #2,564 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.63 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___D S in the 1st position and D in the 5th position S__E_ S in the 1st position and E in the 4th position _P__D P in the 2nd position and D in the 5th position

Try next

CAROL LEARE LATER TRAIN ROAST TRASH
Words starting with S Words ending with D

First-turn measures

4.96 Entropy (bits)
151 Avg remaining
0.04% Exact match
93.6% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 81% of evaluated openers
0.99 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opener: v5 benchmark

How SPIED 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.

3.63 Avg guesses
100.0% Win rate
0.68 Volatility
#2,564 v5 opener rank
In the complete v5 snapshot, SPIED ranks #2,564 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
1
2 guesses
67
3 guesses
922
4 guesses
1,188
5 guesses
163
6 guesses
12
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

5/5 unique
2 vowels
Common:
EIS

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
83%
Green tile
40%
All gray
17%

Example solver route

R O A T E
S I L E N
S H I E D
S P I E D

One example route used by the solver.

This solver benchmark reaches SPIED in 4 guesses.

Feedback distribution

107 possible patterns. Top outcomes:

410
287
151
139
119
82
80
71
66
66
65
59
43
43
42
33
29
28
26
23
22
21
20
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19
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15
15
14

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing SPIED:

17% chance
Suggested:
CAROL
12% chance
Suggested:
LEARE
6% chance
Suggested:
LATER

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

17.4% →
CAROL 6.06 bits
12.2% →
LEARE 5.49 bits
6.4% →
LATER 4.45 bits
5.9% →
TRAIN 5.05 bits
5.0% →
ROAST 4.60 bits
3.5% →
TRASH 4.84 bits
3.4% →
CLARY 4.63 bits
3.0% →
COALY 4.76 bits
2.8% →
DANDY 4.57 bits
2.8% →
ROUTE 4.42 bits

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

S1P3I1E1D2
Total: 8 points

Words With Friends

Total: 9 points

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