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Five-letter words starting with A and ending in N (A___N)

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Showing 59 matching words

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What the remaining words have in common

59 matching words3 not previously used8 past answers

Position 2D 15%L 14%B 7%C 7%

Position 3I 14%M 14%O 12%A 7%

Position 4O 27%I 22%A 20%E 14%

11 possible answers fit.

Among those candidates, AXION produces the smallest worst-case feedback group.

Top-ranked next guess AXION

Still undecided: 2nd letter: C, D, G, L, P, R, S, V, X·3rd letter: A, H, I, M, O, R, S·4th letter: A, E, G, I, O, R

Possible answers

ACORN ADMIN ADORN AGAIN ALIEN ALIGN APRON ARSON ASHEN AVIAN AXION

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

ACORN used ADMIN used ADORN possible AGAIN used ALIEN used ALIGN used APRON used ARSON possible ASHEN used AVIAN used AXION possible ACTIN guess ALLAN guess ALLEN guess AMMAN guess ASPEN guess ABOON guess ABORN guess ABRIN guess ABURN guess ACRON guess ACTON guess ADAWN guess ADDIN guess ADHAN guess ADMAN guess ADMEN guess ADOON guess ADOWN guess AFION guess AGRIN guess AJWAN guess ALGIN guess ALKIN guess ALLIN guess ALOIN guess AMAIN guess AMBAN guess AMMON guess ANCON guess ANION guess ANNAN guess ANYON guess APIAN guess ARGAN guess ARGON guess ARPEN guess ASCON guess ASTUN guess ATMAN guess AUGEN guess AUXIN guess AVION guess AWARN guess AWKIN guess AXMAN guess AXMEN guess AZLON guess AZURN guess

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19% possible answers

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Opening information

Splits these words most evenly: ALIEN of the 59 words here

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Useful letters still to test

O 36% I 36% R 24% M 17% D 15% L 15%

Words with five different letters

58% of the matches have no repeated letters.

ACORN ADMIN ADORN ALIEN ALIGN

Common letter pairs

ON 16/59 words (27%) AN 15/59 words (25%) IN 13/59 words (22%) AD 9/59 words (15%) AL 8/59 words (14%)

Vowels

No vowels: 0% · one: 0% · two: 76% · three or more: 24%

Common questions

How many five-letter words match A___N?: 59 five-letter words match A___N in this site's Wordle guess list. Of these, 11 are possible answers.
Which matching word has the highest feedback entropy?: Among all matching words, ALIEN has the highest feedback entropy at 5.61 bits against the possible answers.

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