5 FiveLetterWords
Possible answer Not used yet C tier opener

SPURN

SPURN is on the solver's possible-answer list but has not appeared as a Wordle answer yet.

As an opener, it rules out about 92.1% of possible answers.

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Meaning and pronunciation

Pronunciation: /spɜːn//spɝn/

Verb

To reject disdainfully; contemn; scorn.

Verb

To reject something by pushing it away with the foot.

Noun

An act of spurning; a scornful rejection.

Noun

A body of coal left to sustain an overhanging mass.

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

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 SPURN performs as a guess

SPURN is a possible answer, so it would solve about one game in 2,358 when every answer is treated as equally likely.

Played as an opener, it lands at least one colored tile in 79.9% of games, misses completely in 20.1%, and leaves about 185 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete v5 benchmark, it ranks #935 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.60 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___N S in the 1st position and N in the 5th position S__R_ S in the 1st position and R in the 4th position _P__N P in the 2nd position and N in the 5th position

Try next

OLATE CADET TOILE THALE GLACE PLATE
Words starting with S Words ending with N

First-turn measures

4.70 Entropy (bits)
185 Avg remaining
0.04% Exact match
92.1% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 65% of evaluated openers
1.25 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opener: v5 benchmark

How SPURN 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.

3.60 Avg guesses
100.0% Win rate
0.67 Volatility
#935 v5 opener rank
In the complete v5 snapshot, SPURN ranks #935 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
1
2 guesses
52
3 guesses
1,014
4 guesses
1,123
5 guesses
152
6 guesses
11
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
1 vowels
Common:
NRSU

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
80%
Green tile
31%
All gray
20%

Example solver route

R O A T E
S L I C K
S H R U B
S P U R N

One example route used by the solver.

This solver benchmark reaches SPURN in 4 guesses.

Feedback distribution

93 possible patterns. Top outcomes:

473
334
176
124
96
88
78
74
62
58
57
46
46
43
38
37
28
27
25
25
23
22
21
20
20
17
17
16
12
12

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing SPURN:

20% chance
Suggested:
OLATE
14% chance
Suggested:
CADET
7% chance
Suggested:
TOILE

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

20.1% →
OLATE 6.01 bits
14.2% →
CADET 5.45 bits
7.5% →
TOILE 5.35 bits
5.3% →
THALE 5.50 bits
4.1% →
THALE 5.32 bits
3.7% →
GLACE 4.70 bits
3.3% →
PLATE 5.36 bits
3.1% →
BEATY 4.76 bits
2.6% →
PLACE 4.51 bits
2.5% →
LOAVE 4.47 bits

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

S1P3U1R1N1
Total: 7 points

Words With Friends

Total: 10 points

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