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This list has 6 Wordle guesses; 4 are possible answers. The calculator compared 14,786 Wordle guesses against those 4 answers. Possible-answer status helps narrow a puzzle, but does not predict which word Wordle will choose.

Past Wordle answers: BAWDY (October 28, 2024); DOWDY (May 13, 2026); HOWDY (October 9, 2022); ROWDY (August 19, 2025).

Top-ranked splitter AARGH
Average remaining
1.0
Worst branch
1
Information
2.0 bits

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

Hard Mode Use DOWDY instead.

AARGH does not fit this page's clues. DOWDY keeps every clue shown here and leaves an average remainder of 1.5 (2 in its worst branch). Check any additional yellow-position clues in the full Solver.

Tight family: _OWDY

DOWDY, HOWDY, ROWDY differ only in the first position. Trying them one at a time can use several turns; AARGH tests the family more efficiently.

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Where these letters usually land

The WDY suffix fixes these letters in positions 3, 4 and 5; the figures below show whether extra copies appear elsewhere.

Word notes

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BAWDY

Obscene; filthy; unchaste.

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Past Wordle answer: October 28, 2024.

DOWDY

Plain and unfashionable in style or dress.

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

Past Wordle answer: May 13, 2026.

HOWDY

To greet informally, especially by saying "howdy"

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 9, 2022.

ROWDY

Loud and disorderly; riotous; boisterous.

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

Past Wordle answer: August 19, 2025.

BEWDY

Pronunciation spelling of beauty.

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Not found among the past answers in this archive.

RAWDY

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