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- Worst branch
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Five-letter words with H and Q
Our Wordle guess list has 6 five-letter words containing H and Q, wherever those letters fall. Use the list when you have yellow tiles but not their positions.
6 matching words
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This list has 6 Wordle guesses; 2 are possible answers. The calculator compared 14,786 Wordle guesses against those 2 answers. Possible-answer status helps narrow a puzzle, but does not predict which word Wordle will choose.
Past Wordle answers: QUASH (May 29, 2025).
AAHED does not fit this page's clues. FIQHS 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 6 matching words, here's where each one tends to sit, which can help place your next guess.
- H most often the 5th letter (67% of these words), also 4th (33%).
- Q most often the 1st letter (83% of these words), also 3rd (17%).
Word notes
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QUASH
To defeat decisively, to suppress.
“The army quashed the rebellion.”
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Past Wordle answer: May 29, 2025.
QUOTH
said
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Not found among the past answers in this archive.
FIQHS
plural of fiqh
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Not found among the past answers in this archive.
QOPHS
plural of qoph
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Not found among the past answers in this archive.
QUICH
Obsolete spelling of quitch.
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Not found among the past answers in this archive.
QURSH
A monetary unit in Saudi Arabia equivalent to a twentieth of a rial.
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Not found among the past answers in this archive.
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