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Accepted guess Not a possible answer C tier for first-turn info

SPUME

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

As an opener, it rules out about 91.3% of possible answers.

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Meaning and pronunciation

Pronunciation: /spjuːm/

Noun

Foam or froth of liquid, particularly that of seawater.

Verb

To froth.

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 SPUME performs as a guess

Wordle accepts SPUME 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 78.5% of games, misses completely in 21.5%, and leaves about 205 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete opener benchmark, it ranks #6,552 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.69 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.
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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__M_ S in the 1st position and M 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 SPUME.

First-turn measures

All four describe SPUME 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.

4.65 Entropy (bits)
205 Avg remaining
0.0% Exact match
91.3% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 62% of evaluated openers
1.30 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opening guess: previous benchmark

How SPUME 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.

3.69 Avg guesses
99.92% Solved within six
0.70 Spread of game lengths
#6,552 Rank among openers
Opening with SPUME left 2 of the snapshot's answers unsolved after six guesses. A spread of 0.70 means those games clustered within about 0.70 of a guess of the 3.69 average. It ranks #6,552 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
0
2 guesses
64
3 guesses
839
4 guesses
1,220
5 guesses
209
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:
ESU

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
78%
Green tile
37%
All gray
22%

Feedback distribution

SPUME can come back 97 different ways. These are the most likely, and how many of the possible answers give each one:

510 answers
365 answers
170 answers
124 answers
102 answers
75 answers
72 answers
66 answers
60 answers
55 answers
54 answers
48 answers
41 answers
39 answers
35 answers
34 answers
27 answers
26 answers
26 answers
25 answers
20 answers
19 answers
18 answers
18 answers
17 answers
17 answers
16 answers
14 answers
14 answers
12 answers

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

S1P3U1M3E1
Total: 9 points

Words With Friends

Total: 12 points

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

Try next

TRAIL ALTER LAIRY SLANT CLARY ROAST

Strategy after playing SPUME

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

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing SPUME:

21% chance
Suggested:
TRAIL
15% chance
Suggested:
ALTER
7% chance
Suggested:
LAIRY

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

21.5% →
TRAIL 5.95 bits
15.4% →
ALTER 5.30 bits
7.2% →
LAIRY 4.45 bits
5.2% →
SLANT 4.70 bits
4.3% →
CLARY 4.66 bits
3.2% →
ROAST 4.79 bits
3.0% →
ROANY 5.00 bits
2.8% →
MOLAR 4.78 bits
2.5% →
TRONE 4.03 bits
2.3% →
LATER 4.47 bits

Research on SPUME

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

Optimal play

Opening with SPUME, a proven-optimal strategy averages 3.70 guesses and ranks #5,026 of 14,855 legal openers. The best proven opener, TARSE, averages 3.55.

In hard mode it averages 3.84 guesses at best and is rank #2,591 of the 7,453 openers that can still guarantee a solve within six guesses.

Our six-turn simulation says 3.69, at or below the proven-optimal 3.70, 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 SPOOM. Estimated pronunciation

This pronunciation is machine-estimated, not taken from a pronunciation dictionary.

Related meanings

In WordNet's sense inventory, SPUME is a kind of foam or make.

Familiarity and learning

Frequency
SPUME sits in the rare band of the wordfreq scale, appearing less than once per million words of written English; the band marks it as a word few players will have met in print.

Sources: Optimal-play values: Alex Selby's exhaustive Wordle analysis (MIT); Pronunciation: CMU Pronouncing Dictionary (BSD), with machine estimates from the g2p_en model; Word relations: Open English WordNet, 2025 edition (CC BY 4.0); Word frequency: wordfreq (data CC BY-SA 4.0).