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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).

See the full page for that puzzle: 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 2,374 when every answer is treated as equally likely.

Played as an opener, it lands at least one colored tile in 82.3% of games, misses completely in 17.7%, and leaves about 145 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete opener benchmark, it ranks #73 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.55 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___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

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

First-turn measures

All four describe SPLAT 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.

5.08 Entropy (bits)
145 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 opening guess: previous 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% Solved within six
0.68 Spread of game lengths
#73 Rank among openers
Opening with SPLAT solved every answer in the snapshot within six guesses. A spread of 0.68 means those games clustered within about 0.68 of a guess of the 3.55 average. It 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 (3.46 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

SPLAT can come back 120 different ways. These are the most likely, and how many of the possible answers give each one:

420 answers
243 answers
167 answers
146 answers
98 answers
88 answers
84 answers
74 answers
72 answers
66 answers
47 answers
42 answers
40 answers
39 answers
38 answers
37 answers
33 answers
30 answers
28 answers
28 answers
27 answers
21 answers
20 answers
19 answers
19 answers
19 answers
19 answers
17 answers
17 answers
16 answers

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.

Try next

DRONE CADRE NOIRE TRITE GLARE RIONE

Strategy after playing SPLAT

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

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.

17.7% →
DRONE 6.17 bits
10.2% →
CADRE 5.41 bits
7.0% →
NOIRE 5.12 bits
6.1% →
TRITE 5.41 bits
4.1% →
GLARE 4.52 bits
3.7% →
RIONE 5.09 bits
3.5% →
PRONE 5.11 bits
3.1% →
TARTE 4.80 bits
3.0% →
MOIRE 4.80 bits
2.8% →
GOIER 4.93 bits

Research on SPLAT

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

Optimal play

Opening with SPLAT, a proven-optimal strategy averages 3.61 guesses and ranks #366 of 14,855 legal openers. The best proven opener, TARSE, averages 3.55.

In hard mode it averages 3.70 guesses at best and is rank #19 of the 7,453 openers that can still guarantee a solve within six guesses.

Our six-turn simulation says 3.55, 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 SPLAT.

Rhymes with PRATT MATTE PLATT BLATT BEGAT

Related meanings

In WordNet's sense inventory, SPLAT is a kind of splash or strip.

Familiarity and learning

Frequency
SPLAT sits in the advanced band of the wordfreq scale, appearing less than once per million words of written English; the band marks it as an uncommon word many players still recognize.

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).