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Five-letter words starting with A and ending in L (A___L)

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Showing 35 matching words

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What the remaining words have in common

35 matching words3 not previously used5 past answers

Position 2R 26%L 14%N 11%C 9%

Position 3G 14%O 11%I 9%P 9%

Position 4A 29%E 20%I 17%U 11%

Possible answers

AFOUL ANGEL ANNUL ANVIL ATOLL AVAIL AWFUL AXIAL

used already been a Wordle answer · possible on the possible-answer list · guess accepted, but not a possible answer

AFOUL possible ANGEL used ANNUL possible ANVIL used ATOLL used AVAIL used AWFUL used AXIAL possible ARIEL guess ABOIL guess ACOEL guess ACRAL guess ACRYL guess AHULL guess ALDOL guess ALGAL guess ALKYL guess ALLEL guess ALLYL guess AMPUL guess ANNAL guess APIOL guess APPAL guess APPEL guess AREAL guess ARGAL guess ARGIL guess ARGOL guess ARMIL guess ARTAL guess ARTEL guess ARVAL guess AUMIL guess AURAL guess AWEEL guess

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The top-ranked splitter is shown in the shortlist note below. Add a gray or yellow clue here to recalculate after the position changes.

Previously used by Wordle: ANGEL (September 16, 2023); ANVIL (August 6, 2024); ATOLL (May 30, 2022); AVAIL (February 18, 2023); AWFUL (June 22, 2022).

Top-ranked splitter ELFIN

Average remaining: 1.0
Worst branch: 1
Information: 3.0 bits

It is a deliberate probe rather than a possible answer here: the point is to separate the remaining answers cleanly.

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ELFIN does not fit this page's clues. ANVIL keeps every clue shown here and leaves an average remainder of 2.0 (3 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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Statistics

23% possible answers

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Opening information

Splits these words most evenly: ARIEL of the 35 words here

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Useful letters still to test

R 34% I 26% E 23% U 20% O 20% G 14%

Words with five different letters

43% of the matches have no repeated letters.

AFOUL ANGEL ANVIL AWFUL ABOIL

Common letter pairs

AL 14/35 words (40%) AR 9/35 words (26%) EL 7/35 words (20%) IL 6/35 words (17%) UL 5/35 words (14%)

Vowels

No vowels: 0% · one: 9% · two: 60% · three or more: 31%

Common questions

How many five-letter words match A___L?: 35 five-letter words match A___L in this site's Wordle guess list. Of these, 8 are possible answers.
Which matching word has the highest feedback entropy?: Among all matching words, ARIEL has the highest feedback entropy at 5.77 bits against the possible answers.

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