5 FiveLetterWords

Five-letter words matching F__A_

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 27 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

FATAL FECAL FERAL FETAL FINAL FLOAT FOCAL FORAY FREAK FRIAR

Shortlist note

How to play this shortlist

This pattern has 27 words in the Wordle guess list; 10 are possible answers. The calculator compared 14,786 Wordle guesses against those 10 answers. The possible-answer label is a guide, not a promise about what Wordle's editors will choose.

Previously used by Wordle: FERAL (July 30, 2024); FINAL (January 8, 2024); FLOAT (June 12, 2022); FOCAL (June 25, 2021); FORAY (April 7, 2022); FREAK (January 26, 2026).

Top-ranked splitter BRENT
Average remaining
1.0
Worst branch
1
Information
3.32 bits

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

Hard Mode Use FETAL instead.

BRENT does not fit this page's clues. FETAL keeps every clue shown here and leaves an average remainder of 1.6 (2 in its worst branch). Check any additional yellow-position clues in the full Solver.

Tight family: FE_AL

FECAL, FERAL, FETAL differ only in the third position. Trying them one at a time can use several turns; BRENT tests the family more efficiently.

Compare two plays

Choose any two plays. The figures use the same 10 possible answers.

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

Pattern guide

What fits F__A_?

All 27 matching words are shown above. 10 are possible answers.

More about these matches

Useful letters still to test

L 56% R 41% E 37% U 22% T 19% O 19%

Words with five different letters

78% of the matches have no repeated letters.

FECAL FERAL FETAL FINAL FLOAT

Common letter pairs

AL 10% FE 6% RA 6% FA 5% AR 5%

Vowels

No vowels: 0% · one: 0% · two: 89% · three or more: 11%

Common questions
How many five-letter words match F__A_?
27 five-letter words match F__A_ in this site's Wordle guess list. Of these, 10 are possible answers.
Which matching word has the highest feedback entropy?
Among all matching words, FERAL has the highest feedback entropy at 5.19 bits against the possible answers.
Keep going
S__A_ A__A_ F__E_ Refine in Finder →
More Wordle tools
Solver Daily Practice