SPOOL
Yes, SPOOL was the Wordle answer on December 24, 2025 (Wordle #1649).
As an opener, it rules out about 88.2% of possible answers.
Meaning and pronunciation
Pronunciation: /spuːl//spʉl/
- Noun
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A reel; a device around which thread, wire or cable is wound, especially a cylinder or spindle.
- Noun
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One of the rotating assemblies of a gas turbine engine, composed of one or more turbine stages, a shaft, and one or more compressor or fan stages.
“The high-pressure spool rotates faster than the intermediate- and low-pressure spools, as the high-pressure turbine is driven by superheated combustion gases straight out of the burners, while the high-pressure compressor has to spin very fast to compress air that has already…”
- Verb
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To wind on a spool or spools.
- Verb
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To send files to a device or a program (a spooler or a daemon that puts them in a queue for processing at a later time).
Source: Wiktionary contributors · CC BY-SA 4.0. Corrections.
Wordle status
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Playable guess
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Possible answer
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Past Wordle answer
Used oncePast Wordle answer: December 24, 2025 (#1649).
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See what the public sample says →How SPOOL performs as a guess
SPOOL 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 70.8% of games, misses completely in 29.2%, and leaves about 280 possible answers on average.
In the previous complete opener benchmark, it ranks #8,283 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.73 guesses in games solved within six turns.
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Useful pattern pages
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First-turn measures
All four describe SPOOL 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.
As an opening guess: previous benchmark
How SPOOL 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.
Composition
Feedback chances
Example solver route
One example route used by the solver.
This solver benchmark reaches SPOOL in 4 guesses.
Feedback distribution
SPOOL can come back 84 different ways. These are the most likely, and how many of the possible answers give each one:
Letter-value totals
Base letter-value totals for SPOOL; these do not show whether either game accepts the word.
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Words With Friends
Scores shown are base values without double/triple letter or word bonuses.
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Strategy after playing SPOOL
What the solver recommends next for each way the board can respond to SPOOL.
Quick reference
Largest feedback groups after playing SPOOL:
Research on SPOOL
Game-tree analysis and word research for SPOOL, with an explanation for each figure.
Optimal play
Opening with SPOOL, a proven-optimal strategy averages 3.76 guesses and ranks #8,427 of 14,855 legal openers. The best proven opener, TARSE, averages 3.55.
In hard mode it averages 3.87 guesses at best and is rank #3,464 of the 7,453 openers that can still guarantee a solve within six guesses.
Our six-turn simulation says 3.73, at or below the proven-optimal 3.76, 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.
Related meanings
In WordNet's sense inventory, SPOOL is a kind of mechanism or transfer.
Synonyms reel
Familiarity and learning
- Frequency
- SPOOL 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.
- Dominant sense
- Lancaster raters associated it most strongly with sight (3.5 of 5).
In a sentence
Please give me a spool of white thread.
A new spool of filament has been delivered.
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); Lancaster Sensorimotor Norms (CC BY 4.0).