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This list has 9 Wordle guesses; 3 are possible answers. The calculator compared 14,786 Wordle guesses against those 3 answers. Possible-answer status helps narrow a puzzle, but does not predict which word Wordle will choose.

Past Wordle answers: CHURN (July 19, 2026); MOURN (March 3, 2022).

Top-ranked splitter ABACS
Average remaining
1.0
Worst branch
1
Information
1.59 bits

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

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ABACS does not fit this page's clues. BOURN keeps every clue shown here and leaves an average remainder of 1.67 (2 in its worst branch). Check any additional yellow-position clues in the full Solver.

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CHURN

To agitate rapidly and repetitively, or to stir with a rowing or rocking motion; generally applies to liquids, notably cream.

“Now the cream is churned to make butter.”

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Past Wordle answer: July 19, 2026.

MOURN

To express sadness or sorrow for; to grieve over (especially a death).

“For two months, she mourned her father's passing.”

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Past Wordle answer: March 3, 2022.

SPURN

To reject disdainfully; contemn; scorn.

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Not found among the past answers in this archive.

ABURN

burning

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AZURN

Obsolete form of azure.

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BOURN

Alternative form of bourne (“small stream or brook”).

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ENURN

Obsolete form of inurn.

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INURN

To place (the remains of a person who has died) in an urn or other container.

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YOURN

Yours.

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