- Average remaining
- 1.0
- Worst branch
- 1
- Information
- 1.0 bits
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Five-letter words with O, U and W
Our Wordle guess list has 9 five-letter words containing O, U and W, 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; 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: WOULD (December 14, 2023); WOUND (October 12, 2025).
AALII does not fit this page's clues. SWOUN 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.
- O most often the 2nd letter (44% of these words), also 3rd (33%), 4th (22%).
- U most often the 4th letter (44% of these words), also 1st (33%), 3rd (22%).
- W most often the 1st letter (44% of these words), also 5th (22%), 2nd (11%), 3rd (11%).
Word notes
Definitions are sourced or editorially reviewed and do not determine word-list status. Corrections.
WOULD
Past tense of will; usually followed by a bare infinitive.
“On my first day at University, I met the woman who would become my wife.”
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Past Wordle answer: December 14, 2023.
WOUND
An injury, such as a cut, stab, or tear, to a (usually external) part of the body.
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Past Wordle answer: October 12, 2025.
SWOUN
Not found among the past answers in this archive.
UNOWN
Not found among the past answers in this archive.
UNWON
Not won.
“After six weeks of incorrect competition entries, the prize was still unwon.”
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Not found among the past answers in this archive.
UPBOW
A note performed on a string instrument by drawing the bow upward or to the left across the instrument, moving the point of contact from the bow's tip toward the frog.
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Not found among the past answers in this archive.
VROUW
A Dutchwoman.
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Not found among the past answers in this archive.
WOFUL
Obsolete spelling of woeful.
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Not found among the past answers in this archive.
WOJUS
Alternative form of woegeous.
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Not found among the past answers in this archive.
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