- Average remaining
- 1.0
- Worst branch
- 1
- Information
- 1.0 bits
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Five-letter words starting with CAU
Our Wordle guess list has 10 five-letter words that start with CAU.
10 matching words
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This list has 10 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: CAULK (February 16, 2022); CAUSE (October 24, 2023).
AAHED does not fit this page's clues. CAUKS keeps every clue shown here and leaves an average remainder of 1.0 (1 in its worst branch). Check any additional yellow-position clues in the full Solver.
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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Where these letters usually land
The CAU prefix fixes these letters in positions 1, 2 and 3; the figures below show whether extra copies appear elsewhere.
- C most often the 1st letter (100% of these words).
- A most often the 2nd letter (100% of these words), also 5th (20%).
- U most often the 3rd letter (100% of these words).
Word notes
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CAULK
Caulking.
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Past Wordle answer: February 16, 2022.
CAUSE
The source of, or reason for, an event or action; that which produces or effects a result.
“They identified a burst pipe as the cause of the flooding.”
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Past Wordle answer: October 24, 2023.
CAUDA
Ellipsis of cauda equina.
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Not found among the past answers in this archive.
CAUKS
plural of cauk
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Not found among the past answers in this archive.
CAULD
Not found among the past answers in this archive.
CAULS
plural of caul
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Not found among the past answers in this archive.
CAUMS
third-person singular simple present indicative of caum
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Not found among the past answers in this archive.
CAUPS
plural of caup
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Not found among the past answers in this archive.
CAURI
A former monetary subdivision, equivalent to one hundredth of a Guinean syli.
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Not found among the past answers in this archive.
CAUSA
Not found among the past answers in this archive.
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