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SPOOK

SPOOK is on the solver's possible-answer list but has not appeared as a Wordle answer yet.

As an opener, it rules out about 81.8% of possible answers.

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Meaning and pronunciation

Pronunciation: /spuːk//spʊk/

Noun

A ghost or phantom.

“The building was haunted by a couple of spooks.”

Noun

A hobgoblin.

Verb

To frighten or make nervous (especially by startling).

“The hunters were spooked when the black cat crossed their path. The movement in the bushes spooked the deer and they ran.”

Verb

To become frightened (by something startling).

“The deer spooked at the sound of the dogs.”

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

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 SPOOK performs as a guess

SPOOK 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 60.9% of games, misses completely in 39.1%, and leaves about 430 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete v5 benchmark, it ranks #12,367 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.82 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___K S in the 1st position and K in the 5th position S__O_ S in the 1st position and O in the 4th position _P__K P in the 2nd position and K in the 5th position

Try next

RAILE TALER LEANT PAIRE TIARE MARLE
Words starting with S Words ending with K

First-turn measures

3.66 Entropy (bits)
430 Avg remaining
0.04% Exact match
81.8% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 11% of evaluated openers
2.29 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opener: v5 benchmark

How SPOOK 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.

3.82 Avg guesses
99.9% Win rate
0.71 Volatility
#12,367 v5 opener rank
In the complete v5 snapshot, SPOOK ranks #12,367 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
1
2 guesses
37
3 guesses
709
4 guesses
1,259
5 guesses
324
6 guesses
21
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)
61%
Green tile
31%
All gray
39%

Example solver route

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

One example route used by the solver.

This solver benchmark reaches SPOOK in 4 guesses.

Feedback distribution

67 possible patterns. Top outcomes:

922
238
185
158
148
88
72
54
44
36
35
30
28
27
24
20
18
15
13
12
12
12
11
9
8
8
8
7
7
7

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing SPOOK:

39% chance
Suggested:
RAILE
10% chance
Suggested:
TALER
8% chance
Suggested:
LEANT

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

39.1% →
RAILE 6.22 bits
10.1% →
TALER 4.78 bits
7.8% →
LEANT 5.37 bits
6.7% →
PAIRE 5.40 bits
6.3% →
TIARE 5.36 bits
3.7% →
LEANT 4.69 bits
3.1% →
MARLE 4.58 bits
2.3% →
CHARE 4.71 bits
1.9% →
RAILE 4.68 bits
1.5% →
CARET 3.92 bits

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

S1P3O1O1K5
Total: 11 points

Words With Friends

Total: 12 points

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