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Accepted guess Not a possible answer B tier for first-turn info

SPODE

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

No dictionary definition for SPODE is recorded in our sourced data.

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

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Meaning and pronunciation

We do not have a sourced definition for this word yet.

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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 SPODE performs as a guess

Wordle accepts SPODE 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 84.4% of games, misses completely in 15.6%, and leaves about 145 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete opener benchmark, it ranks #4,162 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.66 guesses in games solved within six turns.

Try your feedback pattern

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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__D_ S in the 1st position and D 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 SPODE.

First-turn measures

All four describe SPODE 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.

4.92 Entropy (bits)
145 Avg remaining
0.0% Exact match
93.9% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 79% of evaluated openers
1.02 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opening guess: previous benchmark

How SPODE 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.

3.66 Avg guesses
100% Solved within six
0.68 Spread of game lengths
#4,162 Rank among openers
Opening with SPODE 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 3.66 average. It ranks #4,162 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
0
2 guesses
68
3 guesses
881
4 guesses
1,207
5 guesses
189
6 guesses
9
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:
EOS

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
84%
Green tile
38%
All gray
16%

Feedback distribution

SPODE can come back 100 different ways. These are the most likely, and how many of the possible answers give each one:

371 answers
284 answers
183 answers
160 answers
123 answers
80 answers
79 answers
77 answers
75 answers
74 answers
68 answers
48 answers
42 answers
41 answers
40 answers
39 answers
33 answers
32 answers
30 answers
27 answers
24 answers
22 answers
21 answers
21 answers
20 answers
18 answers
16 answers
16 answers
15 answers
15 answers

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

S1P3O1D2E1
Total: 8 points

Words With Friends

Total: 9 points

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

Try next

CAIRN LATER TALON LAIRY SLANT ARIEL

Strategy after playing SPODE

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

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing SPODE:

16% chance
Suggested:
CAIRN
12% chance
Suggested:
LATER
8% chance
Suggested:
TALON

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

15.6% →
CAIRN 5.94 bits
12.0% →
LATER 5.48 bits
7.7% →
TALON 5.01 bits
6.7% →
LAIRY 4.57 bits
5.2% →
SLANT 4.65 bits
3.4% →
ARIEL 4.68 bits
3.3% →
CLARY 4.40 bits
3.2% →
TRASH 4.59 bits
3.2% →
PLAIT 4.97 bits
3.1% →
DRAIN 5.02 bits

Research on SPODE

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

Optimal play

Opening with SPODE, a proven-optimal strategy averages 3.66 guesses and ranks #2,110 of 14,855 legal openers. The best proven opener, TARSE, averages 3.55.

No guaranteed hard-mode solve In hard mode, no strategy that opens with SPODE can guarantee a solve within six guesses.

Our six-turn simulation says 3.66, at or below the proven-optimal 3.66, 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 SPOHD. Estimated pronunciation

This pronunciation is machine-estimated, not taken from a pronunciation dictionary.

Related meanings

In WordNet's sense inventory, SPODE is a kind of porcelain.

Familiarity and learning

Frequency
SPODE sits in the rare band of the wordfreq scale, appearing less than once per million words of written English; the band marks it as a word few players will have met in print.

Sources: Optimal-play values: Alex Selby's exhaustive Wordle analysis (MIT); Pronunciation: CMU Pronouncing Dictionary (BSD), with machine estimates from the g2p_en model; Word relations: Open English WordNet, 2025 edition (CC BY 4.0); Word frequency: wordfreq (data CC BY-SA 4.0).