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SPORE

Yes, SPORE was the Wordle answer on August 24, 2025 (Wordle #1527).

As an opener, it rules out about 95.5% of possible answers.

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Meaning and pronunciation

Pronunciation: /spɔː(ɹ)//spoɹ//spoː(ɹ)/

Noun

A reproductive particle, usually a single cell, released by a fungus, alga, or plant that may germinate into another.

Noun

A thick resistant particle produced by a bacterium or protist to survive in harsh or unfavorable conditions.

Verb

To produce spores.

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: August 24, 2025 (#1527).

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

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How SPORE performs as a guess

SPORE 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 87.3% of games, misses completely in 12.7%, and leaves about 107 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete opener benchmark, it ranks #2,465 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.63 guesses in games solved within six turns.

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Useful pattern pages

If you only know part of the word, start with one of these matching patterns.

S___E S in the 1st position and E in the 5th position S__R_ S in the 1st position and R in the 4th position _P__E P in the 2nd position and E in the 5th position

Explore lists that match the beginning, ending or letters in SPORE.

First-turn measures

All four describe SPORE 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.

5.34 Entropy (bits)
107 Avg remaining
0.04% Exact match
95.5% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 96% of evaluated openers
0.61 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opening guess: previous benchmark

How SPORE 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.

3.63 Avg guesses
99.96% Solved within six
0.72 Spread of game lengths
#2,465 Rank among openers
Opening with SPORE left 1 of the snapshot's answers unsolved after six guesses. A spread of 0.72 means those games clustered within about 0.72 of a guess of the 3.63 average. It ranks #2,465 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
1
2 guesses
92
3 guesses
911
4 guesses
1,147
5 guesses
182
6 guesses
20
Top-ranked in the current bounded policy screen: SLANT. The policy minimizes misses within six first, then average guesses among wins (3.46 for the leader). Compare the ranking measures

Composition

5/5 unique
2 vowels
Common:
EORS

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
87%
Green tile
40%
All gray
13%

Example solver route

R O A T E
P R O N G
S P O R E

One example route used by the solver.

This solver benchmark reaches SPORE in 3 guesses.

Feedback distribution

SPORE can come back 124 different ways. These are the most likely, and how many of the possible answers give each one:

302 answers
187 answers
158 answers
147 answers
135 answers
124 answers
107 answers
70 answers
62 answers
58 answers
53 answers
51 answers
48 answers
38 answers
37 answers
35 answers
33 answers
28 answers
27 answers
27 answers
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26 answers
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25 answers
24 answers
23 answers
22 answers
19 answers
18 answers
17 answers

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

S1P3O1R1E1
Total: 7 points

Words With Friends

Total: 8 points

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

Try next

TUNIC LEANT AIDER TONAL AGILE TRIAD

Strategy after playing SPORE

What the solver recommends next for each way the board can respond to SPORE.

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing SPORE:

13% chance
Suggested:
TUNIC
8% chance
Suggested:
LEANT
7% chance
Suggested:
AIDER

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

12.7% →
TUNIC 5.63 bits
7.9% →
LEANT 5.38 bits
6.7% →
AIDER 4.22 bits
6.2% →
TONAL 4.97 bits
5.7% →
AGILE 4.59 bits
5.2% →
TRIAD 5.19 bits
4.5% →
SLANT 4.72 bits
2.9% →
CAROM 4.39 bits
2.6% →
PLAIT 4.94 bits
2.4% →
AMISS 4.49 bits

Research on SPORE

Game-tree analysis and word research for SPORE, with an explanation for each figure.

Optimal play

Opening with SPORE, a proven-optimal strategy averages 3.62 guesses and ranks #480 of 14,855 legal openers. The best proven opener, TARSE, averages 3.55.

In hard mode it averages 3.76 guesses at best and is rank #471 of the 7,453 openers that can still guarantee a solve within six guesses.

Our six-turn simulation says 3.63; proven optimal play reaches 3.62. The fixed strategy accounts for the difference.

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.

How it sounds

One syllable Say it SPAWR.

Rhymes with STORE FLOOR SCORE SHORE CORPS

Familiarity and learning

Frequency
SPORE sits in the intermediate band of the wordfreq scale, appearing about once per million words of written English; the band marks it as a word most readers meet regularly.
Dominant sense
Lancaster raters associated it most strongly with sight (3.0 of 5).

In a sentence

The biologist looked at a spore under the microscope.
© tatoeba.org contributor zumley (CC BY 2.0 FR)

Sources: Optimal-play values: Alex Selby's exhaustive Wordle analysis (MIT); Pronunciation: CMU Pronouncing Dictionary (BSD); Word frequency: wordfreq (data CC BY-SA 4.0); Lancaster Sensorimotor Norms (CC BY 4.0).