5 FiveLetterWords
Accepted guess Not a possible answer F tier opener

SPIMS

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

As an opener, it rules out about 82.6% of possible answers.

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Meaning and pronunciation

Noun

plural of spim

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 SPIMS performs as a guess

Wordle accepts SPIMS 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 62.1% of games, misses completely in 37.9%, and leaves about 411 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete v5 benchmark, it ranks #11,462 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.80 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__M_ S in the 1st position and M in the 4th position _P__S P in the 2nd position and S in the 5th position

Try next

ROATE TILDE LEANT CRANE MORAE PORAE
Words starting with S Words ending with S

First-turn measures

3.65 Entropy (bits)
411 Avg remaining
0.0% Exact match
82.6% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 10% of evaluated openers
2.29 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opener: v5 benchmark

How SPIMS 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.

3.80 Avg guesses
99.9% Win rate
0.71 Volatility
#11,462 v5 opener rank
In the complete v5 snapshot, SPIMS ranks #11,462 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
0
2 guesses
44
3 guesses
722
4 guesses
1,280
5 guesses
283
6 guesses
23
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)
62%
Green tile
29%
All gray
38%

Feedback distribution

71 possible patterns. Top outcomes:

893
235
191
154
128
126
118
43
39
35
32
29
26
26
24
20
19
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6

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing SPIMS:

38% chance
Suggested:
ROATE
10% chance
Suggested:
TILDE
8% chance
Suggested:
LEANT

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

37.9% →
ROATE 6.11 bits
10.0% →
TILDE 5.12 bits
8.1% →
LEANT 5.38 bits
6.5% →
CRANE 4.95 bits
5.4% →
MORAE 5.37 bits
5.3% →
PORAE 5.35 bits
5.0% →
ROATE 5.49 bits
1.8% →
PALET 4.45 bits
1.7% →
CADET 4.29 bits
1.5% →
LEANT 4.00 bits

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

S1P3I1M3S1
Total: 9 points

Words With Friends

Total: 11 points

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