5 FiveLetterWords
Past Wordle answer Possible answer Accepted guess B tier opener

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).

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 2,358 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 125 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete v5 benchmark, it ranks #363 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.58 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.

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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

Try next

CAROL RENAL GLARE NADIR TALON ALTER
Words starting with S Words ending with E

First-turn measures

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

As an opener: v5 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
99.9% Win rate
0.70 Volatility
#363 v5 opener rank
In the complete v5 snapshot, SPITE 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 (3.45 for the leader). Compare the ranking measures

Composition

5/5 unique
2 vowels
Common:
EIST

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
84%
Green tile
42%
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

128 possible patterns. Top outcomes:

366
254
145
117
111
101
87
68
63
53
50
46
40
33
32
32
31
30
27
25
24
23
23
20
20
19
18
18
17
16

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
10.8% →
RENAL 5.37 bits
6.1% →
GLARE 4.57 bits
5.0% →
NADIR 4.97 bits
4.7% →
TALON 5.02 bits
4.3% →
ALTER 4.66 bits
3.7% →
CLARY 4.89 bits
2.9% →
CLARY 4.61 bits
2.7% →
POLAR 4.55 bits
2.2% →
CLASS 4.61 bits

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.