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Five-letter words starting with S and ending in IL (S__IL)

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Possible answers

SNAIL SPOIL

Previously used by Wordle: SNAIL (October 10, 2023); SPOIL (October 1, 2025).

Top-ranked splitter AAHED

Average remaining: 1.0
Worst branch: 1
Information: 1.0 bits

It is a deliberate probe rather than a possible answer here: the point is to separate the remaining answers cleanly.

Hard Mode Use SCAIL instead.

AAHED does not fit this page's clues. SCAIL keeps every clue shown here and leaves an average remainder of 1.0 (1 in its worst branch). Check any additional yellow-position clues in the full Solver.

No obvious one-slot trap. The possible answers do not form a three-word-or-larger family that differs in only one position.

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SNAIL used SPOIL used SCAIL guess SIGIL guess SKAIL guess SPAIL guess SPEIL guess STEIL guess SWAIL guess SYBIL guess

Letters that fit the blanks

2nd letter C, I, K, N, P, T, W, Y
3rd letter A, B, E, G, O

Meanings and answer history

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SNAIL

Any of very many animals (either hermaphroditic or nonhermaphroditic), of the class Gastropoda, having a coiled shell.

Source: Wiktionary contributors, available under CC BY-SA 4.0. Selected and lightly formatted from Wiktionary; long entries may be shortened.

Past Wordle answer: October 10, 2023.

SPOIL

To ruin; to damage in such a way as to make undesirable or unusable.

“All this sun spoils me for vacations in the far North.”

Source: Wiktionary contributors, available under CC BY-SA 4.0. Selected and lightly formatted from Wiktionary; long entries may be shortened.

Past Wordle answer: October 1, 2025.