5 FiveLetterWords
Accepted guess Not a possible answer C tier opener

SPUED

SPUED is accepted as a guess but is not on the solver's possible-answer list.

As an opener, it rules out about 92.3% of possible answers.

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Meaning and pronunciation

Verb

simple past and past participle of spue

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

No

The solver does not currently treat this as a possible answer.

Past Wordle answer

Not used yet

No past answer date found.

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

How SPUED performs as a guess

Wordle accepts SPUED as a guess, but the solver does not list it as a possible answer.

Played as an opener, it lands at least one colored tile in 79.9% of games, misses completely in 20.1%, and leaves about 181 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete v5 benchmark, it ranks #5,185 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.67 guesses in games solved within six turns.

Try your feedback pattern

Tap the tiles to match your feedback, then see the ranked follow-up guesses.

All gray? Tap a tile to cycle gray → yellow → green.

Useful pattern pages

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

S___D S in the 1st position and D in the 5th position S__E_ S in the 1st position and E in the 4th position _P__D P in the 2nd position and D in the 5th position

Try next

CAROL LEARE ROANY SLANT CLARY DAILY
Words starting with S Words ending with D

First-turn measures

4.74 Entropy (bits)
181 Avg remaining
0.0% Exact match
92.3% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 68% of evaluated openers
1.21 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opener: v5 benchmark

How SPUED 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.

3.67 Avg guesses
100.0% Win rate
0.70 Volatility
#5,185 v5 opener rank
In the complete v5 snapshot, SPUED ranks #5,185 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
0
2 guesses
72
3 guesses
860
4 guesses
1,204
5 guesses
202
6 guesses
16
Top-ranked in the current bounded policy screen: SLANT. The policy minimizes misses within six first, then average guesses among wins (3.45 for the leader). Compare the ranking measures

Composition

5/5 unique
2 vowels
Common:
ESU

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
80%
Green tile
37%
All gray
20%

Feedback distribution

99 possible patterns. Top outcomes:

473
315
167
124
107
85
81
79
75
68
57
49
47
39
35
28
27
25
23
23
19
19
18
18
17
17
17
16
16
13

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing SPUED:

20% chance
Suggested:
CAROL
13% chance
Suggested:
LEARE
7% chance
Suggested:
ROANY

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

20.1% →
CAROL 6.09 bits
13.4% →
LEARE 5.50 bits
7.1% →
ROANY 4.15 bits
5.3% →
SLANT 4.68 bits
4.5% →
CLARY 4.57 bits
3.6% →
DAILY 4.91 bits
3.4% →
ROAST 4.80 bits
3.4% →
ROANY 4.97 bits
3.2% →
RAILE 4.65 bits
2.9% →
TIARE 4.13 bits

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

S1P3U1E1D2
Total: 8 points

Words With Friends

Total: 10 points

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