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SPOOF

Yes, SPOOF was the Wordle answer on October 15, 2025 (Wordle #1579).

As an opener, it rules out about 82.6% of possible answers.

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Meaning and pronunciation

Pronunciation: /spuːf//spʊf/

Noun

An act of deception; a hoax; a joking prank.

Noun

A light parody.

Adjective

Fake, hoax.

Verb

To gently satirize.

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 15, 2025 (#1579).

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

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How SPOOF performs as a guess

SPOOF 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 62.3% of games, misses completely in 37.7%, and leaves about 411 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete v5 benchmark, it ranks #12,092 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.81 guesses in games solved within six turns.

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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___F S in the 1st position and F in the 5th position S__O_ S in the 1st position and O in the 4th position

Try next

RAILE TALER LEANT PAIRE TIARE FLIER
Words starting with S Words ending with F

First-turn measures

3.62 Entropy (bits)
411 Avg remaining
0.04% Exact match
82.6% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 10% of evaluated openers
2.33 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opener: v5 benchmark

How SPOOF 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.

3.81 Avg guesses
100.0% Win rate
0.69 Volatility
#12,092 v5 opener rank
In the complete v5 snapshot, SPOOF ranks #12,092 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
1
2 guesses
35
3 guesses
695
4 guesses
1,314
5 guesses
288
6 guesses
20
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

4/5 unique
2 vowels
Common:
OS

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
62%
Green tile
29%
All gray
38%

Example solver route

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

One example route used by the solver.

This solver benchmark reaches SPOOF in 4 guesses.

Feedback distribution

62 possible patterns. Top outcomes:

889
226
211
167
144
119
89
69
42
37
33
29
25
22
19
17
15
15
13
13
12
12
11
9
9
8
7
7
6
6

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing SPOOF:

38% chance
Suggested:
RAILE
10% chance
Suggested:
TALER
9% chance
Suggested:
LEANT

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

37.7% →
RAILE 6.19 bits
9.6% →
TALER 4.82 bits
8.9% →
LEANT 5.35 bits
7.1% →
PAIRE 5.40 bits
6.1% →
TIARE 5.38 bits
5.0% →
FLIER 5.47 bits
3.8% →
BRANE 4.85 bits
2.9% →
LATER 4.64 bits
1.8% →
REACT 4.04 bits
1.6% →
TRINE 4.49 bits

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

S1P3O1O1F4
Total: 10 points

Words With Friends

Total: 11 points

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