- 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 with B, D and G
Our Wordle guess list has 10 five-letter words containing B, D and G, wherever those letters fall. Use the list when you have yellow tiles but not their positions.
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This list has 10 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: BADGE (May 6, 2022); BUDGE (May 7, 2026); DEBUG (February 11, 2023).
AARGH does not fit this page's clues. BADGE 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
You know these letters are in the word (yellow tiles) but not where. Across the 10 matching words, here's where each one tends to sit, which can help place your next guess.
- B most often the 1st letter (50% of these words), also 3rd (40%), 2nd (10%).
- D most often the 3rd letter (40% of these words), also 1st (30%), 5th (30%).
- G most often the 4th letter (50% of these words), also 1st (20%), 5th (20%), 3rd (10%).
Word notes
Definitions are sourced or editorially reviewed and do not determine word-list status. Corrections.
BADGE
A distinctive mark, token, sign, emblem or cognizance, worn on one’s clothing, as an insignia of some rank, or of the membership of an organization.
“the badge of a society; the badge of a policeman”
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Past Wordle answer: May 6, 2022.
BUDGE
To move; to be shifted from a fixed position.
“I’ve been pushing this rock as hard as I can, but it won’t budge an inch.”
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Past Wordle answer: May 7, 2026.
DEBUG
To search for and eliminate malfunctioning elements or errors in something, especially a computer program or machinery.
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Past Wordle answer: February 11, 2023.
BEGAD
An expression of surprise, shock etc.
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Not found among the past answers in this archive.
BODGE
To do a clumsy or inelegant job, usually as a temporary repair; mend, patch up, repair.
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Not found among the past answers in this archive.
BODGY
Fake; phony.
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Not found among the past answers in this archive.
DBAGS
Not found among the past answers in this archive.
DEBAG
To remove (something) from a bag.
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Not found among the past answers in this archive.
GIBED
simple past and past participle of gibe
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Not found among the past answers in this archive.
GYBED
simple past and past participle of gybe
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Not found among the past answers in this archive.
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