- Average remaining
- 1.0
- Worst branch
- 1
- Information
- 2.0 bits
It is a deliberate probe rather than a possible answer here: the point is to separate the candidates cleanly.
Five-letter words with C, L and V
Our Wordle guess list has 9 five-letter words containing C, L and V, wherever those letters fall. Use the list when you have yellow tiles but not their positions.
9 matching words
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This list has 9 Wordle guesses; 4 are possible answers. The calculator compared 14,786 Wordle guesses against those 4 answers. Possible-answer status helps narrow a puzzle, but does not predict which word Wordle will choose.
Past Wordle answers: CIVIL (September 29, 2025); CLOVE (February 21, 2025); VOCAL (May 22, 2026).
AAHED does not fit this page's clues. CALVE 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 9 matching words, here's where each one tends to sit, which can help place your next guess.
- C most often the 1st letter (89% of these words), also 3rd (11%).
- L most often the 2nd letter (44% of these words), also 5th (44%), 3rd (11%).
- V most often the 4th letter (56% of these words), also 3rd (33%), 1st (11%).
Word notes
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CAVIL
To criticise for petty or frivolous reasons.
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Not found among the past answers in this archive.
CIVIL
Having to do with people and government office as opposed to the military or religion.
“She went into civil service because she wanted to help the people.”
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Past Wordle answer: September 29, 2025.
CLOVE
A very pungent aromatic spice, the unexpanded flower bud of the clove tree.
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Past Wordle answer: February 21, 2025.
VOCAL
Of, pertaining to, or resembling the human voice or speech.
“vocal problems”
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Past Wordle answer: May 22, 2026.
CALVE
To give birth to a calf.
“The farmer could tell Bessie was about to calve.”
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Not found among the past answers in this archive.
CAVEL
Alternative form of kevel (“stonemason's hammer”).
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Not found among the past answers in this archive.
CLAVE
singular of claves
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Not found among the past answers in this archive.
CLAVI
plural of clavus
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Not found among the past answers in this archive.
CLEVE
A room; chamber.
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Not found among the past answers in this archive.
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