SPORT
Yes, SPORT was the Wordle answer on May 27, 2025 (Wordle #1438).
As an opener, it rules out about 94.0% of possible answers.
Meaning and pronunciation
Pronunciation: /spɔːt//spɔɹt/[spɔɹʔ]
- Noun
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Any activity that uses physical exertion or skills competitively under a set of rules that is not based on aesthetics.
“Basketball is her favorite sport, and she also enjoys various other sports as well.”
- Noun
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A person who exhibits either good or bad sportsmanship.
“Jen may have won, but she was sure a poor sport; she laughed at the loser.”
- Verb
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To amuse oneself, to play.
“children sporting on the green”
- Verb
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To mock or tease, treat lightly, toy with.
“Jen sports with Bill's emotions.”
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
YesIncluded in the Wordle guess list used by our tools.
Possible answer
YesIncluded among the answers considered by the solver.
Past Wordle answer
Used oncePast Wordle answer: May 27, 2025 (#1438).
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See what the public sample says →How SPORT performs as a guess
SPORT 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 82.2% of games, misses completely in 17.8%, and leaves about 143 possible answers on average.
In the previous complete opener benchmark, it ranks #203 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.57 guesses in games solved within six turns.
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Useful pattern pages
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First-turn measures
All four describe SPORT 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 SPORT 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 SPORT in 4 guesses.
Feedback distribution
SPORT can come back 119 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 SPORT; these do not show whether either game accepts the word.
Scrabble
Words With Friends
Scores shown are base values without double/triple letter or word bonuses.
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Strategy after playing SPORT
What the solver recommends next for each way the board can respond to SPORT.
Quick reference
Largest feedback groups after playing SPORT:
Research on SPORT
Game-tree analysis and word research for SPORT, with an explanation for each figure.
Optimal play
Opening with SPORT, a proven-optimal strategy averages 3.62 guesses and ranks #522 of 14,855 legal openers. The best proven opener, TARSE, averages 3.55.
In hard mode it averages 3.72 guesses at best and is rank #63 of the 7,453 openers that can still guarantee a solve within six guesses.
Our six-turn simulation says 3.57, at or below the proven-optimal 3.62, 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, SPORT is a kind of recreation or business.
Synonyms play fun feature variation athletics mutant
Familiarity and learning
- Frequency
- SPORT sits in the common band of the wordfreq scale, appearing about 54 times per million words of written English; the band marks it as an everyday word almost every player will know.
- Learner level
- Appears in beginner learner vocabulary (CEFR-J level A1); among the first words English learners study.
- Age of acquisition
- Typically learned around age 5, by Glasgow Norms speaker ratings.
- Imageability
- Imageability score: 81 of 100. Raters found it easy to picture.
In a sentence
Do you like the sport?
Are you good at sport?
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); Learner levels: CEFR-J Wordlist ver 1.5, Tono Laboratory, TUFS; Glasgow Norms (CC BY 4.0).