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- Worst branch
- 1
- Information
- 1.59 bits
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Five-letter words starting with RIV
Our Wordle guess list has 8 five-letter words that start with RIV.
8 matching words
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This list has 8 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: RIVAL (December 15, 2022); RIVET (February 1, 2025).
AARTI does not fit this page's clues. RIVER 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 RIV prefix fixes these letters in positions 1, 2 and 3; the figures below show whether extra copies appear elsewhere.
- R most often the 1st letter (100% of these words), also 5th (12%).
- I 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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RIVAL
A competitor (person, team, company, etc.) with the same goal as another, or striving to attain the same thing. Defeating a rival may be a primary or necessary goal of a competitor.
“Chris is my biggest rival in the 400-metre race.”
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Past Wordle answer: December 15, 2022.
RIVER
A large and often winding stream which drains a land mass, carrying water down from higher areas to a lower point, oftentimes ending in another body of water, such as an ocean or in an inland sea.
“Occasionally rivers overflow their banks and cause floods.”
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Not found among the past answers in this archive.
RIVET
A cylindrical mechanical fastener which is supplied with a factory head at one end and is used to attach multiple parts together by passing its bucktail through a hole and upsetting its end to form a field head.
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Past Wordle answer: February 1, 2025.
RIVAS
A department of Nicaragua.
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Not found among the past answers in this archive.
RIVED
simple past and past participle of rive
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Not found among the past answers in this archive.
RIVEL
To shrivel, wrinkle (up).
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Not found among the past answers in this archive.
RIVEN
past participle of rive
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RIVES
plural of rive
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Not found among the past answers in this archive.
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