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SPOIL

Yes, SPOIL was the Wordle answer on October 1, 2025 (Wordle #1565).

As an opener, it rules out about 93.6% of possible answers.

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Meaning and pronunciation

Pronunciation: /spɔɪl/

Verb

To ruin; to damage in such a way as to make undesirable or unusable.

“All this sun spoils me for vacations in the far North.”

Verb

To ruin the character of, by overindulgence; to coddle or pamper to excess.

Noun

Plunder taken from an enemy or victim.

Noun

Material (such as rock or earth) removed in the course of an excavation, or in mining or dredging. Tailings. Such material could be utilised somewhere else.

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 1, 2025 (#1565).

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

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How SPOIL performs as a guess

SPOIL 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 81.8% of games, misses completely in 18.2%, and leaves about 152 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete v5 benchmark, it ranks #358 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.

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___L S in the 1st position and L in the 5th position S__I_ S in the 1st position and I in the 4th position _P__L P in the 2nd position and L in the 5th position

Try next

TRACE CATER TRINE CARLE REACT CRATE
Words starting with S Words ending with L

First-turn measures

4.94 Entropy (bits)
152 Avg remaining
0.04% Exact match
93.6% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 80% of evaluated openers
1.01 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opener: v5 benchmark

How SPOIL 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
100.0% Win rate
0.68 Volatility
#358 v5 opener rank
In the complete v5 snapshot, SPOIL ranks #358 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
1
2 guesses
61
3 guesses
1,051
4 guesses
1,072
5 guesses
157
6 guesses
12
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:
ILOS

Feedback chances

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

Example solver route

R O A T E
S L I N K
S P O I L

One example route used by the solver.

This solver benchmark reaches SPOIL in 3 guesses.

Feedback distribution

108 possible patterns. Top outcomes:

429
213
194
168
113
93
80
72
71
65
48
47
42
42
35
34
33
31
30
29
28
25
20
19
19
19
17
16
15
15

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing SPOIL:

18% chance
Suggested:
TRACE
9% chance
Suggested:
CATER
8% chance
Suggested:
TRINE

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

18.2% →
TRACE 6.24 bits
9.0% →
CATER 5.37 bits
8.2% →
TRINE 5.57 bits
7.1% →
CARLE 5.23 bits
4.8% →
REACT 5.21 bits
3.9% →
CRATE 5.26 bits
3.4% →
BRANE 4.74 bits
3.1% →
PARTE 5.25 bits
3.0% →
AGILE 4.36 bits
2.8% →
CARET 5.02 bits

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

S1P3O1I1L1
Total: 7 points

Words With Friends

Total: 9 points

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