5 FiveLetterWords
Past Wordle answer Possible answer Accepted guess C tier opener

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.

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Meaning and pronunciation

Pronunciation: /spuːl//spʉl/

Noun

A reel; a device around which thread, wire or cable is wound, especially a cylinder or spindle.

Noun

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

To wind on a spool or spools.

Verb

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

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: December 24, 2025 (#1649).

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

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How SPOOL performs as a guess

SPOOL 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 70.8% of games, misses completely in 29.2%, and leaves about 278 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete v5 benchmark, it ranks #8,283 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.73 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___L S in the 1st position and L in the 5th position S__O_ S in the 1st position and O in the 4th position _P__L P in the 2nd position and L in the 5th position

Try next

TIARE RAILE RONTE THANE PAIRE REACT
Words starting with S Words ending with L

First-turn measures

4.22 Entropy (bits)
278 Avg remaining
0.04% Exact match
88.2% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 34% of evaluated openers
1.73 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opener: v5 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.

3.73 Avg guesses
100.0% Win rate
0.70 Volatility
#8,283 v5 opener rank
In the complete v5 snapshot, SPOOL ranks #8,283 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
1
2 guesses
51
3 guesses
811
4 guesses
1,238
5 guesses
233
6 guesses
19
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:
LOS

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
71%
Green tile
33%
All gray
29%

Example solver route

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

One example route used by the solver.

This solver benchmark reaches SPOOL in 4 guesses.

Feedback distribution

84 possible patterns. Top outcomes:

688
253
183
164
130
115
79
67
57
45
40
39
37
30
29
29
23
22
22
20
19
17
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14
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13
10
10
8
8

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing SPOOL:

29% chance
Suggested:
TIARE
11% chance
Suggested:
RAILE
8% chance
Suggested:
RONTE

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

29.2% →
TIARE 6.30 bits
10.7% →
RAILE 5.37 bits
7.8% →
RONTE 5.24 bits
7.0% →
THANE 5.31 bits
5.5% →
TIARE 5.36 bits
4.9% →
PAIRE 5.30 bits
3.4% →
REACT 4.56 bits
2.8% →
CRANE 4.82 bits
2.4% →
CARNE 4.44 bits
1.9% →
MAILE 4.21 bits

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

S1P3O1O1L1
Total: 7 points

Words With Friends

Total: 9 points

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