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SPITE

Yes, SPITE was the Wordle answer on March 10, 2025 (Wordle #1360).

As an opener, it rules out about 94.7% of possible answers.

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Meaning and pronunciation

Pronunciation: /spaɪt/

Noun

Ill will or hatred toward another, accompanied with the desire to unjustifiably irritate, annoy, or thwart; a want to disturb or put out another; mild malice.

“He was so filled with spite for his ex-wife, his brother was afraid of what he might do.”

Verb

To treat maliciously; to try to hurt or thwart.

“She soon married again, to spite her ex-husband.”

Verb

To fill with spite; to offend; to vex.

Preposition

Notwithstanding; despite.

Alternative forms: spight

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

Used once

Past Wordle answer: March 10, 2025 (#1360).

See the full page for that puzzle: March 10, 2025 (#1360).

The possible-answer list is the solver's current list and may change when Wordle adds new answers.

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How SPITE performs as a guess

SPITE is a possible answer, so it would solve about one game in 2,374 when every answer is treated as equally likely.

Played as an opener, it lands at least one colored tile in 84.5% of games, misses completely in 15.5%, and leaves about 126 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete opener benchmark, it ranks #363 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.58 guesses in games solved within six turns.

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Useful pattern pages

If you only know part of the word, start with one of these matching patterns.

S___E S in the 1st position and E in the 5th position S__T_ S in the 1st position and T in the 4th position _P__E P in the 2nd position and E in the 5th position

Explore lists that match the beginning, ending or letters in SPITE.

First-turn measures

All four describe SPITE used as an opening guess. Entropy is the same idea as “avg ruled out” on a log scale: a higher number means the guess splits the possible answers into more, smaller groups.

5.30 Entropy (bits)
126 Avg remaining
0.04% Exact match
94.7% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 95% of evaluated openers
0.64 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opening guess: previous benchmark

How SPITE 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.

3.58 Avg guesses
99.92% Solved within six
0.70 Spread of game lengths
#363 Rank among openers
Opening with SPITE left 2 of the snapshot's answers unsolved after six guesses. A spread of 0.70 means those games clustered within about 0.70 of a guess of the 3.58 average. It ranks #363 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
1
2 guesses
85
3 guesses
1,005
4 guesses
1,091
5 guesses
156
6 guesses
14
Top-ranked in the current bounded policy screen: SLANT. The policy minimizes misses within six first, then average guesses among wins (3.46 for the leader). Compare the ranking measures

Composition

5/5 unique
2 vowels
Common:
EIST

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
84%
Green tile
41%
All gray
16%

Example solver route

R O A T E
M U S I C
S P I T E

One example route used by the solver.

This solver benchmark reaches SPITE in 3 guesses.

Feedback distribution

SPITE can come back 128 different ways. These are the most likely, and how many of the possible answers give each one:

369 answers
255 answers
146 answers
117 answers
111 answers
102 answers
87 answers
68 answers
64 answers
53 answers
50 answers
48 answers
40 answers
33 answers
32 answers
32 answers
32 answers
30 answers
27 answers
25 answers
24 answers
23 answers
23 answers
20 answers
20 answers
19 answers
18 answers
18 answers
18 answers
17 answers

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

S1P3I1T1E1
Total: 7 points

Words With Friends

Total: 8 points

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

Try next

CAROL RENAL GLARE NADIR TALON ALTER

Strategy after playing SPITE

What the solver recommends next for each way the board can respond to SPITE.

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing SPITE:

16% chance
Suggested:
CAROL
11% chance
Suggested:
RENAL
6% chance
Suggested:
GLARE

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

15.5% →
CAROL 5.96 bits
10.7% →
RENAL 5.37 bits
6.1% →
GLARE 4.58 bits
4.9% →
NADIR 4.96 bits
4.7% →
TALON 5.02 bits
4.3% →
ALTER 4.65 bits
3.7% →
CLARY 4.89 bits
2.9% →
CLARY 4.61 bits
2.7% →
POLAR 4.59 bits
2.2% →
CLASS 4.61 bits

Research on SPITE

Game-tree analysis and word research for SPITE, with an explanation for each figure.

Optimal play

Opening with SPITE, a proven-optimal strategy averages 3.61 guesses and ranks #386 of 14,855 legal openers. The best proven opener, TARSE, averages 3.55.

In hard mode it averages 3.74 guesses at best and is rank #226 of the 7,453 openers that can still guarantee a solve within six guesses.

Our six-turn simulation says 3.58, at or below the proven-optimal 3.61, because the two figures score different answer lists.

These figures come from exhaustive game-tree search and are exact for the NYT lists of July 2023 (3,158 answers). They do not use the site's working answer pool.

How it sounds

One syllable Say it SPYT.

Rhymes with RIGHT MIGHT NIGHT WHITE LIGHT

Related meanings

In WordNet's sense inventory, SPITE is a kind of hate or malice.

Synonyms hurt WOUND offend VENOM malice injure

Familiarity and learning

Frequency
SPITE sits in the common band of the wordfreq scale, appearing about 11 times per million words of written English; the band marks it as an everyday word almost every player will know.
Learner level
Appears in intermediate learner vocabulary (CEFR-J level B2); a word learners usually reach after the basics.
Dominant sense
Lancaster raters associated it most strongly with internal bodily sensation (2.2 of 5).

In a sentence

He did that out of spite.
© tatoeba.org contributor rul (CC BY 2.0 FR)
He did it out of spite.
© tatoeba.org contributor AlanF_US (CC BY 2.0 FR)

Sources: Optimal-play values: Alex Selby's exhaustive Wordle analysis (MIT); Pronunciation: CMU Pronouncing Dictionary (BSD); Word relations: Open English WordNet, 2025 edition (CC BY 4.0); Word frequency: wordfreq (data CC BY-SA 4.0); Learner levels: CEFR-J Wordlist ver 1.5, Tono Laboratory, TUFS; Lancaster Sensorimotor Norms (CC BY 4.0).