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SPRAY

Yes, SPRAY was the Wordle answer on October 1, 2021 (Wordle #104).

As an opener, it rules out about 93.4% of possible answers.

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Meaning and pronunciation

Pronunciation: /spɹeɪ/

Noun

A fine, gentle, dispersed mist of liquid.

“The sailor could feel the spray from the waves.”

Noun

Something resembling a spray of liquid.

Verb

To project a liquid in a dispersive manner toward something.

“The firemen sprayed the house.”

Verb

To project in a dispersive manner.

“Spray some ointment on that scratch.”

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: October 1, 2021 (#104).

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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 SPRAY performs as a guess

SPRAY 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 82.7% of games, misses completely in 17.3%, and leaves about 157 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete opener benchmark, it ranks #3,751 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.65 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___Y S in the 1st position and Y in the 5th position S__A_ S in the 1st position and A in the 4th position _P__Y P in the 2nd position and Y in the 5th position

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

First-turn measures

All four describe SPRAY 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.

4.89 Entropy (bits)
157 Avg remaining
0.04% Exact match
93.4% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 77% of evaluated openers
1.06 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opening guess: previous benchmark

How SPRAY 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.

3.65 Avg guesses
99.92% Solved within six
0.71 Spread of game lengths
#3,751 Rank among openers
Opening with SPRAY left 2 of the snapshot's answers unsolved after six guesses. A spread of 0.71 means those games clustered within about 0.71 of a guess of the 3.65 average. It ranks #3,751 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
1
2 guesses
62
3 guesses
937
4 guesses
1,129
5 guesses
207
6 guesses
16
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
1 vowels
Common:
ARS

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
83%
Green tile
40%
All gray
17%

Example solver route

R O A T E
C A R R Y
S P R A Y

One example route used by the solver.

This solver benchmark reaches SPRAY in 3 guesses.

Feedback distribution

SPRAY can come back 109 different ways. These are the most likely, and how many of the possible answers give each one:

410 answers
252 answers
243 answers
143 answers
115 answers
112 answers
67 answers
61 answers
58 answers
57 answers
55 answers
53 answers
46 answers
45 answers
36 answers
35 answers
32 answers
29 answers
27 answers
24 answers
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23 answers
22 answers
20 answers
19 answers
19 answers
16 answers
16 answers
16 answers
15 answers

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

S1P3R1A1Y4
Total: 10 points

Words With Friends

Total: 10 points

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

Try next

TOILE TIARE HOISE CLOTE THALE LEANT

Strategy after playing SPRAY

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

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing SPRAY:

17% chance
Suggested:
TOILE
11% chance
Suggested:
TOILE
10% chance
Suggested:
TOILE

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

17.3% →
TOILE 6.20 bits
10.6% →
TOILE 5.23 bits
10.2% →
TOILE 5.22 bits
6.0% →
TIARE 4.43 bits
4.8% →
TOILE 5.07 bits
4.7% →
TOILE 4.28 bits
2.8% →
HOISE 4.85 bits
2.6% →
CLOTE 4.61 bits
2.4% →
THALE 4.50 bits
2.4% →
LEANT 3.81 bits

Research on SPRAY

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

Optimal play

Opening with SPRAY, a proven-optimal strategy averages 3.67 guesses and ranks #3,038 of 14,855 legal openers. The best proven opener, TARSE, averages 3.55.

In hard mode it averages 3.80 guesses at best and is rank #1,463 of the 7,453 openers that can still guarantee a solve within six guesses.

Our six-turn simulation says 3.65, at or below the proven-optimal 3.67, 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.

How it sounds

One syllable Say it SPRAY.

Rhymes with TODAY DELAY ANIME ESSAY ARRAY

Related meanings

In WordNet's sense inventory, SPRAY is a kind of pesticide or amount.

Synonyms spraying

Familiarity and learning

Frequency
SPRAY sits in the common band of the wordfreq scale, appearing about 15 times per million words of written English; the band marks it as an everyday word almost every player will know.
Learner level
Appears in intermediate learner vocabulary (CEFR-J level B2); a word learners usually reach after the basics.
Age of acquisition
Typically learned around age 6, by Glasgow Norms speaker ratings.
Imageability
Imageability score: 71 of 100. Raters found it easy to picture.
Dominant sense
Lancaster raters associated it most strongly with sight (3.7 of 5).

In a sentence

Say it, don't spray it.
© tatoeba.org contributor DJ_Saidez (CC BY 2.0 FR)
I brought the bear spray.
© tatoeba.org contributor mailohilohi (CC BY 2.0 FR)

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); Lancaster Sensorimotor Norms (CC BY 4.0).