- Average remaining
- 1.5
- Worst branch
- 3
- Information
- 3.19 bits
It is a deliberate probe rather than a possible answer here: the point is to separate the candidates cleanly.
Five-letter words starting with SHO
Our Wordle guess list has 35 five-letter words that start with SHO.
35 matching words
Refine these results in Word Finder →- SHOAL past answer possible answer
- SHOCK possible answer
- SHONE possible answer
- SHOOK possible answer
- SHOOT possible answer
- SHORE past answer possible answer
- SHORN past answer possible answer
- SHORT past answer possible answer
- SHOUT past answer possible answer
- SHOVE past answer possible answer
- SHOWN past answer possible answer
- SHOWY past answer possible answer
- SHOES Wordle guess
- SHOPS Wordle guess
- SHOTS Wordle guess
- SHOWS Wordle guess
- SHOAT Wordle guess
- SHOED Wordle guess
- SHOER Wordle guess
- SHOGI Wordle guess
- SHOGS Wordle guess
- SHOJI Wordle guess
- SHOJO Wordle guess
- SHOLA Wordle guess
- SHONK Wordle guess
- SHOOL Wordle guess
- SHOON Wordle guess
- SHOOS Wordle guess
- SHOPE Wordle guess
- SHORL Wordle guess
- SHOTE Wordle guess
- SHOTT Wordle guess
- SHOUD Wordle guess
- SHOWD Wordle guess
- SHOYU Wordle guess
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This list has 35 Wordle guesses; 12 are possible answers. The calculator compared 14,786 Wordle guesses against those 12 answers. Possible-answer status helps narrow a puzzle, but does not predict which word Wordle will choose.
Past Wordle answers: SHOAL (March 10, 2026); SHORE (August 14, 2024); SHORN (May 18, 2023); SHORT (November 5, 2025); SHOUT (October 22, 2024); SHOVE (December 6, 2024); SHOWN (April 27, 2022); SHOWY (June 2, 2022).
TENOR does not fit this page's clues. SHOTE keeps every clue shown here and leaves an average remainder of 4.5 (6 in its worst branch). Check any additional yellow-position clues in the full Solver.
Tight family:
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SHORE, SHORN, SHORT differ only in the fifth position. Trying them one at a time can use several turns; TENOR tests the family more efficiently.
Compare two plays
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Where these letters usually land
The SHO prefix fixes these letters in positions 1, 2 and 3; the figures below show whether extra copies appear elsewhere.
- S most often the 1st letter (100% of these words), also 5th (17%).
- H most often the 2nd letter (100% of these words).
- O most often the 3rd letter (100% of these words), also 4th (14%), 5th (3%).
What the labels mean
Every match is in our Wordle guess list. “Possible answer” marks words on the answer list used by this site's solver, while “Past answer” marks words already used. For more filters, continue this search in Word Finder.