- Average remaining
- 1.0
- Worst branch
- 1
- Information
- 2.0 bits
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Five-letter words starting with COV
Our Wordle guess list has 7 five-letter words that start with COV.
7 matching words
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This list has 7 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: COVEN (September 21, 2025); COVER (June 18, 2024); COVET (June 23, 2023).
ANGRY does not fit this page's clues. COVEN keeps every clue shown here and leaves an average remainder of 2.5 (3 in its worst branch). Check any additional yellow-position clues in the full Solver.
Trap warning:
COVE_
COVEN, COVER, COVET, COVEY differ only in the fifth position. Trying them one at a time can use several turns; ANGRY tests the family more efficiently.
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Where these letters usually land
The COV 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).
- O most often the 2nd letter (100% of these words).
- V most often the 3rd letter (100% of these words).
Word notes
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COVEN
A nunnery, a convent.
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Past Wordle answer: September 21, 2025.
COVER
A lid.
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Past Wordle answer: June 18, 2024.
COVET
To wish for with eagerness; to desire possession of, often enviously.
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Past Wordle answer: June 23, 2023.
COVEY
A brood or family of partridges (family Phasianidae), which includes game birds such as grouse (tribe Tetraonini) and ptarmigans (tribe Tetraonini, genus Lagopus).
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Not found among the past answers in this archive.
COVED
simple past and past participle of cove
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Not found among the past answers in this archive.
COVES
plural of cove
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Not found among the past answers in this archive.
COVIN
Fraud, deception.
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Not found among the past answers in this archive.
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