Five-letter words with K, L and W
Our Wordle guess list has 10 five-letter words containing K, L and W, wherever those letters fall. Use the list when you have yellow tiles but not their positions.
10 matching words
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Possible answers
None of these 10 words is listed as a possible answer. They are still valid Wordle guesses.
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.
- K most often the 4th letter (50% of these words), also 5th (30%), 1st (20%).
- L most often the 3rd letter (40% of these words), also 4th (40%), 1st (10%), 5th (10%).
- W most often the 1st letter (70% of these words), also 2nd (20%), 3rd (10%).
Word notes
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WALKS
plural of walk
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KWELA
A style of music, first played in the townships, whose principal instrument is the penny whistle.
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KWIRL
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LAWKS
Lord! (especially as an expression of surprise)
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WAULK
to make cloth (especially tweed in Scotland) denser and more felt-like by soaking and beating.
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WELKE
A surname.
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WELKS
plural of welk
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WELKT
simple past and past participle of welk
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WHELK
Certain edible sea snails, especially, any one of numerous species of large marine gastropods belonging to Buccinidae, much used as food in Europe.
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WHILK
Alternative form of whelk.
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