5 FiveLetterWords
Accepted guess Not a possible answer F tier opener

SPIKS

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

As an opener, it rules out about 80.5% of possible answers.

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Meaning and pronunciation

Noun

plural of spik

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 SPIKS performs as a guess

Wordle accepts SPIKS 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 59.6% of games, misses completely in 40.4%, and leaves about 459 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete v5 benchmark, it ranks #12,547 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.83 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__K_ S in the 1st position and K in the 4th position _P__S P in the 2nd position and S in the 5th position

Try next

ROATE TILDE GLARE PARLE CARLE PALET
Words starting with S Words ending with S

First-turn measures

3.50 Entropy (bits)
459 Avg remaining
0.0% Exact match
80.5% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 7% of evaluated openers
2.45 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opener: v5 benchmark

How SPIKS 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.

3.83 Avg guesses
99.9% Win rate
0.72 Volatility
#12,547 v5 opener rank
In the complete v5 snapshot, SPIKS ranks #12,547 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
0
2 guesses
37
3 guesses
715
4 guesses
1,241
5 guesses
334
6 guesses
24
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)
60%
Green tile
29%
All gray
40%

Feedback distribution

65 possible patterns. Top outcomes:

952
271
174
146
143
123
72
44
31
30
29
27
26
26
23
21
19
18
17
17
11
10
10
10
10
10
9
6
6
4

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing SPIKS:

40% chance
Suggested:
ROATE
11% chance
Suggested:
TILDE
7% chance
Suggested:
ROATE

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

40.4% →
ROATE 6.11 bits
11.5% →
TILDE 5.12 bits
7.4% →
ROATE 5.26 bits
6.2% →
GLARE 4.97 bits
6.1% →
PARLE 5.47 bits
5.2% →
ROATE 5.51 bits
3.1% →
CARLE 5.16 bits
1.9% →
PALET 4.54 bits
1.3% →
LEANT 3.91 bits
1.3% →
LATER 4.23 bits

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

S1P3I1K5S1
Total: 11 points

Words With Friends

Total: 12 points

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