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This list has 9 Wordle guesses; 2 are possible answers. The calculator compared 14,786 Wordle guesses against those 2 answers. Possible-answer status helps narrow a puzzle, but does not predict which word Wordle will choose.

Past Wordle answers: DETOX (October 21, 2025); INBOX (April 19, 2025).

Top-ranked splitter DETOX
Average remaining
1.0
Worst branch
1
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It fits this list and can win immediately, while still splitting the alternatives well.

Hard Mode DETOX keeps every stated clue.

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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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DETOX

Detoxification, especially of the body from alcohol or addictive drugs.

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Past Wordle answer: October 21, 2025.

INBOX

A container in which papers to be dealt with are put.

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

Past Wordle answer: April 19, 2025.

XEROX

A xerograph (copy).

“Hand me that xerox, would you?”

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Not found among the past answers in this archive.

EMBOX

To enclose in a box, or as if in a box.

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Not found among the past answers in this archive.

FEROX

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PHLOX

Any flowering plant of the genus Phlox.

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REDOX

Of or relating to any reaction in which oxidation and reduction occur simultaneously.

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Not found among the past answers in this archive.

RETOX

To resume the consumption of alcohol, drugs, etc.; to reverse a period of detox.

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UNBOX

To remove from a box.

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