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Five-letter words matching P_T__

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Showing 64 matching words

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What the remaining words have in common

64 matching words0 not previously used9 past answers

Position 2A 31%O 19%U 19%E 16%

Position 4T 27%E 16%A 11%I 11%

Position 5S 19%Y 13%O 11%N 9%

9 possible answers fit.

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

Top-ranked next guess PATTY

Still undecided: 2nd letter: A, E, I, U·4th letter: A, C, H, I, S, T·5th letter: H, L, O, Y

Possible answers

PATCH PATIO PATSY PATTY PETAL PETTY PITCH PITHY PUTTY

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

PATCH used PATIO used PATSY used PATTY used PETAL used PETTY used PITCH used PITHY used PUTTY used PATEL guess PATHS guess PETER guess PETIT guess POTTS guess POTTY guess PUTIN guess PATAS guess PATED guess PATEE guess PATEN guess PATER guess PATES guess PATIA guess PATIN guess PATKA guess PATLY guess PATTA guess PATTE guess PATTU guess PATUS guess PETAR guess PETOS guess PETRE guess PETRI guess PETTI guess PETTO guess PITAS guess PITHS guess PITON guess PITOT guess PITSO guess PITSU guess PITTA guess PITTU guess POTAE guess POTAI guess POTCH guess POTED guess POTES guess POTIN guess POTOO guess POTRO guess POTSY guess POTTO guess PUTAS guess PUTER guess PUTID guess PUTON guess PUTOS guess PUTTI guess PUTTO guess PUTTS guess PUTTU guess PUTZA guess

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Opening information

Splits these words most evenly: PATER of the 64 words here

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Useful letters still to test

A 44% O 33% I 33% E 33% S 25% U 25%

Words with five different letters

58% of the matches have no repeated letters.

PATCH PATIO PATSY PETAL PITCH

Common letter pairs

PA 20/64 words (31%) AT 20/64 words (31%) TT 17/64 words (27%) OT 13/64 words (20%) PU 12/64 words (19%)

Vowels

No vowels: 0% · one: 24% · two: 67% · three or more: 9%

Common questions

How many five-letter words match P_T__?: 64 five-letter words match P_T__ in this site's Wordle guess list. Of these, 9 are possible answers.
Which matching word has the highest feedback entropy?: Among all matching words, PATER has the highest feedback entropy at 5.52 bits against the possible answers.

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