Five-letter words starting with E and ending in GY (E__GY)

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ELEGY is the only possible answer that fits.

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ELEGY possible ELOGY guess

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What fits E__GY?

All 2 matching words are shown above. 1 is a possible answer.

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  • 2nd letter L
  • 3rd letter E, O
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ELEGY

A mournful or plaintive poem; a funeral song; a poem of lamentation.

“funeral elegy”

Source: Wiktionary contributors, available under CC BY-SA 4.0. Selected and lightly formatted from Wiktionary; long entries may be shortened.

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ELOGY

Praise, eulogy; inscription on a tombstone, epitaph

Source: Wiktionary contributors, available under CC BY-SA 4.0. Selected and lightly formatted from Wiktionary; long entries may be shortened.

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How many five-letter words match E__GY?
2 five-letter words match E__GY in this site's Wordle guess list. Of these, 1 is a possible answer.