5 FiveLetterWords
Accepted guess Not a possible answer F tier opener

SPURS

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

As an opener, it rules out about 86.3% of possible answers.

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Meaning and pronunciation

Noun

plural of spur

Verb

third-person singular simple present indicative of spur

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 SPURS performs as a guess

Wordle accepts SPURS 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 70.0% of games, misses completely in 30.0%, and leaves about 323 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete v5 benchmark, it ranks #10,051 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.76 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___S S in the 1st position and S in the 5th position S__R_ S in the 1st position and R in the 4th position _P__S P in the 2nd position and S in the 5th position

Try next

ALONE CADET LEANT ANILE PLATE THANE
Words starting with S Words ending with S

First-turn measures

3.92 Entropy (bits)
323 Avg remaining
0.0% Exact match
86.3% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 19% of evaluated openers
2.02 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opener: v5 benchmark

How SPURS 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.

3.76 Avg guesses
99.8% Win rate
0.72 Volatility
#10,051 v5 opener rank
In the complete v5 snapshot, SPURS ranks #10,051 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
0
2 guesses
41
3 guesses
807
4 guesses
1,187
5 guesses
298
6 guesses
17
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

4/5 unique
1 vowels
Common:
RSU

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
70%
Green tile
28%
All gray
30%

Feedback distribution

70 possible patterns. Top outcomes:

707
414
163
132
101
87
85
69
63
53
41
35
31
29
27
24
23
21
21
19
14
14
12
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11
10
10
10
9
8

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing SPURS:

30% chance
Suggested:
ALONE
18% chance
Suggested:
CADET
7% chance
Suggested:
LEANT

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

30.0% →
ALONE 6.05 bits
17.6% →
CADET 5.34 bits
6.9% →
LEANT 5.37 bits
5.6% →
ANILE 4.90 bits
4.3% →
PLATE 5.35 bits
3.7% →
THANE 5.14 bits
3.6% →
COATE 4.81 bits
2.9% →
NAICE 4.53 bits
2.7% →
THALE 4.58 bits
2.2% →
RUMOR 4.29 bits

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

S1P3U1R1S1
Total: 7 points

Words With Friends

Total: 9 points

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