- Average remaining
- 1.22
- Worst branch
- 2
- Information
- 2.95 bits
It is a deliberate probe rather than a possible answer here: the point is to separate the candidates cleanly.
Five-letter words with H, L and W
Our Wordle guess list has 20 five-letter words containing H, L and W, wherever those letters fall. Use the list when you have yellow tiles but not their positions.
20 matching words
Refine these results in Word Finder →- SHAWL past answer possible answer
- WELCH possible answer
- WELSH possible answer
- WHALE past answer possible answer
- WHEEL past answer possible answer
- WHELP past answer possible answer
- WHILE past answer possible answer
- WHIRL past answer possible answer
- WHOLE past answer possible answer
- CHAWL Wordle guess
- HALWA Wordle guess
- HOWLS Wordle guess
- HWYLS Wordle guess
- LOWTH Wordle guess
- THOWL Wordle guess
- WHEAL Wordle guess
- WHELK Wordle guess
- WHELM Wordle guess
- WHILK Wordle guess
- WHORL Wordle guess
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This list has 20 Wordle guesses; 9 are possible answers. The calculator compared 14,786 Wordle guesses against those 9 answers. Possible-answer status helps narrow a puzzle, but does not predict which word Wordle will choose.
Past Wordle answers: SHAWL (April 4, 2022); WHALE (July 23, 2023); WHEEL (July 25, 2023); WHELP (July 26, 2021); WHILE (October 3, 2023); WHIRL (July 12, 2023); WHOLE (July 27, 2025).
ACENE does not fit this page's clues. WHALE keeps every clue shown here and leaves an average remainder of 1.44 (2 in its worst branch). Check any additional yellow-position clues in the full Solver.
Tight family:
WH_LE
WHALE, WHILE, WHOLE differ only in the third position. Trying them one at a time can use several turns; ACENE tests the family more efficiently.
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Where these letters usually land
You know these letters are in the word (yellow tiles) but not where. Across the 20 matching words, here's where each one tends to sit, which can help place your next guess.
- H most often the 2nd letter (70% of these words), also 1st (15%), 5th (15%).
- L most often the 4th letter (45% of these words), also 5th (35%), 3rd (15%), 1st (5%).
- W most often the 1st letter (65% of these words), also 4th (20%), 3rd (10%), 2nd (5%).
What the labels mean
Every match is in our Wordle guess list. “Possible answer” marks words on the answer list used by this site's solver, while “Past answer” marks words already used. For more filters, continue this search in Word Finder.