sport S₁P₃O₁R₁T₁

SPORT is a familiar five-letter word with several uses beyond athletics. It names a competitive activity, but calling someone “a good sport” praises their gracious response to teasing or losing. For word-game play, its 7-point base score, three anagrams, and status as a Wordle answer give you concrete ways to use the letters.

SPORT at a glance

• SPORT has five letters, arranged alphabetically as OPRST.
• Its base Scrabble score is 7 points, before board bonuses.
• The P is the highest-value tile, worth 3 points; each other letter is worth 1.
• SPORT is both an accepted Wordle answer and an allowed guess.
• Its three anagrams are PORTS, PROST, and STROP.

What does SPORT mean?

SPORT most often means an activity that involves physical effort or skill, competition, and agreed rules. The definition excludes competitions based on aesthetics, so the word points to play governed by performance and rules rather than appearance.

The word also describes a person with good sportsmanship. In “She was a good sport about losing,” SPORT means she reacted graciously, not that she took part in an athletic event. A less common sense is a toy or plaything.

SPORT meaning, score, and neighboring words

The 7-point total comes from S, O, R, and T at 1 point each, plus P at 3. That makes P the tile to protect from a triple-letter square; the other four letters carry less scoring weight. On an ordinary board square, the word’s total stays at 7.

Change one letter and SPORT has neighbors such as SHORT, SPOUT, SPORE, SPURT, and SPORK. There are 11 one-letter neighbors in all, though several are less familiar than these examples. That distinction matters in a word game: a plausible-looking change still needs to fit your game’s dictionary.

Rearranging all five tiles gives PORTS, PROST, and STROP. SPORT is also accepted as a Wordle answer and guess, but its dictionary coverage does not make it a guaranteed solution in any particular puzzle.