- Average remaining
- 1.0
- Worst branch
- 1
- Information
- 1.59 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 WRI
Our Wordle guess list has 8 five-letter words that start with WRI.
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: WRIST (April 5, 2024); WRITE (August 28, 2023).
AARTI does not fit this page's clues. WRIES 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 WRI prefix fixes these letters in positions 1, 2 and 3; the figures below show whether extra copies appear elsewhere.
- W most often the 1st letter (100% of these words).
- R most often the 2nd letter (100% of these words), also 5th (12%).
- I most often the 3rd letter (100% of these words).
Word notes
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WRING
Often followed by out: to squeeze or twist (something moist) tightly so that liquid is forced out.
“I didn’t have a towel so I just wrung my hair dry.”
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Not found among the past answers in this archive.
WRIST
The complex joint between forearm bones, carpus, and metacarpals where the hand is attached to the arm; the carpus in a narrow sense.
“With a flick of the wrist, he threw the frisbee to a team-mate.”
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Past Wordle answer: April 5, 2024.
WRITE
To form letters, words or symbols on a surface in order to communicate.
“The pupil wrote his name on the paper.”
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Past Wordle answer: August 28, 2023.
WRICK
A painful muscular spasm in the neck or back
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Not found among the past answers in this archive.
WRIED
simple past and past participle of wry
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Not found among the past answers in this archive.
WRIER
comparative form of wry: more wry
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Not found among the past answers in this archive.
WRIES
third-person singular simple present indicative of wry
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Not found among the past answers in this archive.
WRITS
plural of writ
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Not found among the past answers in this archive.
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