5 FiveLetterWords

Five-letter words matching P_IN_

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 13 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

PAINT POINT PRINT

Shortlist note

How to play this shortlist

This pattern has 13 words in the Wordle guess list; 3 are possible answers. The calculator compared 14,786 Wordle guesses against those 3 answers. The possible-answer label is a guide, not a promise about what Wordle's editors will choose.

Previously used by Wordle: PAINT (June 21, 2024); POINT (January 19, 2022); PRINT (August 19, 2021).

Top-ranked splitter AARGH
Average remaining
1.0
Worst branch
1
Information
1.59 bits

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

Hard Mode Use PAINS instead.

AARGH does not fit this page's clues. PAINS keeps every clue shown here and leaves an average remainder of 1.67 (2 in its worst branch). Check any additional yellow-position clues in the full Solver.

Tight family: P_INT

PAINT, POINT, PRINT differ only in the second position. Trying them one at a time can use several turns; AARGH tests the family more efficiently.

Compare two plays

Choose any two plays. The figures use the same 3 possible answers.

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

Pattern guide

What fits P_IN_?

All 13 matching words are shown above. 3 are possible answers.

More about these matches

Useful letters still to test

T 23% R 23% S 23% G 23% A 15% O 15%

Words with five different letters

85% of the matches have no repeated letters.

PAINT POINT PRINT PAINS PEINS

Common letter pairs

IN 25% NT 6% PR 6% RI 6% NS 6%

Vowels

No vowels: 0% · one: 46% · two: 46% · three or more: 8%

Common questions
How many five-letter words match P_IN_?
13 five-letter words match P_IN_ in this site's Wordle guess list. Of these, 3 are possible answers.
Which matching word has the highest feedback entropy?
Among all matching words, PAINT has the highest feedback entropy at 5.19 bits against the possible answers.
Keep going
S_IN_ A_IN_ T_IN_ Refine in Finder →
More Wordle tools
Solver Daily Practice