Wordle Answer for October 1, 2025
Players who opened Wordle on October 1, 2025 were trying to land on SPOIL. We've kept the day's hints around so you can revisit them — or use the archive to settle a debate about a tricky past puzzle.
The answer
SPOIL
What spoil means
To damage, ruin, or diminish the quality or enjoyment of something, or to become rotten or unfit for use, especially food.
Where the word comes from
From Old French spoile, meaning plunder or booty, derived from Latin spoliare, meaning to strip or rob. The Latin root likely traces to spolium, meaning skin or hide stripped from an animal. The sense shifted from literal stripping of goods to the broader meaning of damaging or ruining something, and also to the goods themselves seized as plunder.
Hints for October 1, 2025
Each row is the starting word our algorithm picks for that turn count, with the tiles Wordle would have shown in response.
Synonyms of spoil
- vitiate
- thwart
- queer
- blunder
- corrupt
- indulge
- cross
- foil
Used in a sentence
The unexpected rain didn't _____ our picnic because we had brought a large tent.
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