5 FiveLetterWords
Possible answer Not used yet C tier opener

SPIKY

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

As an opener, it rules out about 86.9% of possible answers.

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Meaning and pronunciation

Pronunciation: /ˈspaɪki/

Adjective

Of a plant: producing spikes (“ears (as of corn); inflorescences in which sessile flowers are arranged on unbranched elongated axes”).

Adjective

Of a plant part: resembling a spike of a plant (see above).

Alternative forms: spikey

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 SPIKY performs as a guess

SPIKY 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 68.4% of games, misses completely in 31.6%, and leaves about 309 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete v5 benchmark, it ranks #8,219 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.72 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___Y S in the 1st position and Y in the 5th position S__K_ S in the 1st position and K in the 4th position _P__Y P in the 2nd position and Y in the 5th position

Try next

ROATE RONTE DROLE THANE GLARE PRATE
Words starting with S Words ending with Y

First-turn measures

4.08 Entropy (bits)
309 Avg remaining
0.04% Exact match
86.9% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 27% of evaluated openers
1.87 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opener: v5 benchmark

How SPIKY 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.

3.72 Avg guesses
100.0% Win rate
0.69 Volatility
#8,219 v5 opener rank
In the complete v5 snapshot, SPIKY ranks #8,219 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
1
2 guesses
47
3 guesses
816
4 guesses
1,239
5 guesses
237
6 guesses
14
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
1 vowels
Common:
IS

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
68%
Green tile
39%
All gray
32%

Example solver route

R O A T E
S L I M Y
B E N C H
S P I K Y

One example route used by the solver.

This solver benchmark reaches SPIKY in 4 guesses.

Feedback distribution

82 possible patterns. Top outcomes:

745
236
179
155
137
125
107
71
37
30
30
28
28
27
27
27
26
25
23
22
21
18
17
17
16
16
13
10
8
8

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing SPIKY:

32% chance
Suggested:
ROATE
10% chance
Suggested:
RONTE
8% chance
Suggested:
DROLE

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

31.6% →
ROATE 6.16 bits
10.0% →
RONTE 5.29 bits
7.6% →
DROLE 4.93 bits
6.6% →
THANE 5.35 bits
5.8% →
ROATE 5.44 bits
5.3% →
GLARE 4.95 bits
4.5% →
PRATE 5.50 bits
3.0% →
CARLE 5.15 bits
1.6% →
PALET 4.54 bits
1.3% →
DIRTY 3.23 bits

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

S1P3I1K5Y4
Total: 14 points

Words With Friends

Total: 14 points

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