- Average remaining
- 1.0
- Worst branch
- 1
- Information
- 2.32 bits
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Five-letter words with C, I and W
Our Wordle guess list has 10 five-letter words containing C, I and W, 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; 5 are possible answers. The calculator compared 14,786 Wordle guesses against those 5 answers. Possible-answer status helps narrow a puzzle, but does not predict which word Wordle will choose.
Past Wordle answers: TWICE (August 17, 2022); WHICH (February 6, 2024); WINCE (January 22, 2022); WITCH (November 26, 2024).
ABNET does not fit this page's clues. TWICE 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.
- C most often the 4th letter (80% of these words), also 3rd (30%).
- I most often the 2nd letter (70% of these words), also 3rd (30%).
- W most often the 1st letter (90% of these words), also 2nd (10%).
Word notes
Definitions are sourced or editorially reviewed and do not determine word-list status. Corrections.
TWICE
Two times.
“You should brush your teeth twice a day.”
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Past Wordle answer: August 17, 2022.
WHICH
What, of those mentioned or implied.
“Which song shall we play?”
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Past Wordle answer: February 6, 2024.
WINCE
A sudden movement or gesture of shrinking away.
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Past Wordle answer: January 22, 2022.
WINCH
A machine consisting of a drum on an axle, a friction brake or ratchet and pawl, and a crank handle or prime mover (often an electric or hydraulic motor), with or without gearing, to give increased mechanical advantage when hoisting or hauling on a rope or cable.
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Not found among the past answers in this archive.
WITCH
A person (now usually particularly a woman) who uses magical or similar supernatural powers to influence or predict events, particularly one with malicious motives.
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Past Wordle answer: November 26, 2024.
WICCA
A neopagan religion that was first popularized by books written in 1949, 1954, and 1959 by the Englishman Gerald Gardner, involving the worship of a horned male god and a moon goddess, the observance of eight Sabbats, and the performance of various rituals.
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Not found among the past answers in this archive.
WICKS
plural of wick
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Not found among the past answers in this archive.
WICKY
Sheep laurel, a shrub of species Kalmia angustifolia.
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Not found among the past answers in this archive.
WILCO
Indicates agreement and compliance.
“Wilco, Bravo Six Three will take the north road. Bravo Six Four will take the south road, out.”
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Not found among the past answers in this archive.
WRICK
A painful muscular spasm in the neck or back
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Not found among the past answers in this archive.
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