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SPLAT

Yes, SPLAT was the Wordle answer on October 19, 2023 (Wordle #852).

As an opener, it rules out about 93.9% of possible answers.

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Meaning and pronunciation

Pronunciation: /splæt/

Noun

The narrow wooden centre piece of a chair back.

Noun

The sharp, atonal sound of a liquid or soft solid hitting a solid surface.

“I didn't see the egg fall, but I heard the splat when it hit the floor.”

Verb

To hit a flat surface and deform into an irregular shape.

“The egg splatted onto the floor.”

Verb

To splatter.

“She splatted the roach with her shoe.”

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: October 19, 2023 (#852).

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

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How SPLAT performs as a guess

SPLAT 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 82.4% of games, misses completely in 17.6%, and leaves about 144 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete v5 benchmark, it ranks #73 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.55 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___T S in the 1st position and T in the 5th position S__A_ S in the 1st position and A in the 4th position _P__T P in the 2nd position and T in the 5th position

Try next

DRONE CADRE NOIRE TRITE GLARE RIONE
Words starting with S Words ending with T

First-turn measures

5.09 Entropy (bits)
144 Avg remaining
0.04% Exact match
93.9% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 87% of evaluated openers
0.86 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opener: v5 benchmark

How SPLAT 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.

3.55 Avg guesses
100.0% Win rate
0.68 Volatility
#73 v5 opener rank
In the complete v5 snapshot, SPLAT ranks #73 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
1
2 guesses
69
3 guesses
1,079
4 guesses
1,060
5 guesses
131
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:
ALST

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
82%
Green tile
34%
All gray
18%

Example solver route

R O A T E
C L I N T
F A U L T
S P L A T

One example route used by the solver.

This solver benchmark reaches SPLAT in 4 guesses.

Feedback distribution

120 possible patterns. Top outcomes:

416
242
165
144
97
88
84
74
72
66
47
42
40
39
38
37
33
30
27
27
27
21
19
19
19
19
19
17
17
16

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing SPLAT:

18% chance
Suggested:
DRONE
10% chance
Suggested:
CADRE
7% chance
Suggested:
NOIRE

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

17.6% →
DRONE 6.16 bits
10.3% →
CADRE 5.40 bits
7.0% →
NOIRE 5.12 bits
6.1% →
TRITE 5.42 bits
4.1% →
GLARE 4.52 bits
3.7% →
RIONE 5.09 bits
3.6% →
PRONE 5.11 bits
3.1% →
TARTE 4.81 bits
3.1% →
MOIRE 4.80 bits
2.8% →
GOIER 4.93 bits

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

S1P3L1A1T1
Total: 7 points

Words With Friends

Total: 9 points

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