5 FiveLetterWords

Five-letter words matching D_W__

Green letters (right spot)
Yellow letters (wrong spots)

Add every position where a present letter cannot go. Use Must contain twice for two copies, or the Solver for full guess rows.

Have completed coloured rows? Continue in Solver
Showing 32 matching words
Copy

Refine this pattern

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

Possible answers

DOWDY DOWEL DOWNY DOWRY

Shortlist note

How to play this shortlist

This pattern has 32 words in the Wordle guess list; 4 are possible answers. The calculator compared 14,786 Wordle guesses against those 4 answers. The possible-answer label is a guide, not a promise about what Wordle's editors will choose.

Previously used by Wordle: DOWDY (May 13, 2026); DOWEL (May 11, 2025); DOWRY (October 13, 2021).

Top-ranked splitter ADDER
Average remaining
1.0
Worst branch
1
Information
2.0 bits

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

Hard Mode Use DAWED instead.

ADDER does not fit this page's clues. DAWED keeps every clue shown here and leaves an average remainder of 1.5 (2 in its worst branch). Check any additional yellow-position clues in the full Solver.

Tight family: DOW_Y

DOWDY, DOWNY, DOWRY differ only in the fourth position. Trying them one at a time can use several turns; ADDER tests the family more efficiently.

Compare two plays

Choose any two plays. The figures use the same 4 possible answers.

Put ADDER into the Solver Try it from a fresh Practice board

Pattern guide

What fits D_W__?

All 32 matching words are shown above. 4 are possible answers.

More about these matches

Useful letters still to test

O 59% A 47% E 38% S 38% N 22% Y 12%

Words with five different letters

78% of the matches have no repeated letters.

DOWEL DOWNY DOWRY DAWEN DAWGS

Common letter pairs

DO 15% OW 15% DA 6% AW 6% WA 5%

Vowels

No vowels: 0% · one: 47% · two: 50% · three or more: 3%

Common questions
How many five-letter words match D_W__?
32 five-letter words match D_W__ in this site's Wordle guess list. Of these, 4 are possible answers.
Which matching word has the highest feedback entropy?
Among all matching words, DEWAR has the highest feedback entropy at 4.92 bits against the possible answers.
Keep going
D_R__ D_A__ D_N__ Refine in Finder →
More Wordle tools
Solver Daily Practice