- 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 E, I and Q
Our Wordle guess list has 10 five-letter words containing E, I and Q, 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; 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: EQUIP (April 15, 2024); PIQUE (October 26, 2023); QUIET (July 5, 2021); QUITE (July 17, 2024).
ABATE does not fit this page's clues. PIQUE 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.
- E most often the 5th letter (50% of these words), also 1st (20%), 4th (20%), 2nd (10%).
- I most often the 3rd letter (50% of these words), also 2nd (20%), 4th (20%), 5th (10%).
- Q most often the 1st letter (50% of these words), also 3rd (30%), 2nd (20%).
Word notes
Definitions are sourced or editorially reviewed and do not determine word-list status. Corrections.
EQUIP
To supply with something necessary in order to carry out a specific action or task; to provide with (e.g. weapons, provisions, munitions, rigging).
Source: Wiktionary contributors, available under CC BY-SA 4.0. Selected and lightly formatted from Wiktionary; long entries may be shortened.
Past Wordle answer: April 15, 2024.
PIQUE
To wound the pride of (someone); to excite to anger; to irritate, to offend.
Source: Wiktionary contributors, available under CC BY-SA 4.0. Selected and lightly formatted from Wiktionary; long entries may be shortened.
Past Wordle answer: October 26, 2023.
QUIET
With little or no sound; free of disturbing noise.
“I can't hear the music; it is too quiet.”
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Past Wordle answer: July 5, 2021.
QUITE
To the greatest extent or degree; completely, entirely.
Source: Wiktionary contributors, available under CC BY-SA 4.0. Selected and lightly formatted from Wiktionary; long entries may be shortened.
Past Wordle answer: July 17, 2024.
EQUID
Any animal of the taxonomic family Equidae, including any equine (horse, zebra, ass, mule, etc.).
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Not found among the past answers in this archive.
FIQUE
A natural fiber, similar to hemp, obtained from the leaves of the plant Furcraea andina and certain other plants of the genus Furcraea.
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Not found among the past answers in this archive.
PEQUI
Any of various trees of the genus Caryocar, a souari.
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Not found among the past answers in this archive.
QUIES
Not found among the past answers in this archive.
QUINE
A program that produces its own source code as output.
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Not found among the past answers in this archive.
QUIRE
One-twentieth of a ream of paper; a collection of twenty-four or twenty-five sheets of paper of the same size and quality, unfolded or having a single fold.
Source: Wiktionary contributors, available under CC BY-SA 4.0. Selected and lightly formatted from Wiktionary; long entries may be shortened.
Not found among the past answers in this archive.
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