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Five-letter words starting with S and ending in A (S___A)

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Showing 78 matching words

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What the remaining words have in common

78 matching words2 not previously used3 past answers

Position 2A 19%E 14%I 13%U 12%

Position 3R 10%U 10%L 9%O 9%

Position 4R 13%T 10%N 9%I 8%

5 possible answers fit.

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

Top-ranked next guess SAUNA

Still undecided: 2nd letter: A, C, E, I·3rd letter: G, L, P, U·4th letter: B, I, M, N, S

Possible answers

SALSA SAUNA SCUBA SEPIA SIGMA

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

SALSA used SAUNA used SCUBA possible SEPIA used SIGMA possible SABHA guess SAMBA guess SCALA guess SHIVA guess SILVA guess SORTA guess SUPRA guess SABRA guess SACRA guess SADZA guess SAETA guess SAIGA guess SAKIA guess SALPA guess SANGA guess SANSA guess SAOLA guess SAUBA guess SCAPA guess SCENA guess SCHWA guess SCOPA guess SCUTA guess SEIZA guess SELLA guess SELVA guess SENNA guess SENSA guess SENZA guess SEPTA guess SERIA guess SERRA guess SESSA guess SHAKA guess SHAMA guess SHAYA guess SHEVA guess SHOLA guess SHUBA guess SHURA guess SIBIA guess SIDHA guess SIGLA guess SIGNA guess SIMBA guess SIRRA guess SISTA guess SITKA guess SLOKA guess SOCIA guess SOFTA guess SOPRA guess SORDA guess SORRA guess SPAZA guess SPICA guess SPINA guess SPOSA guess SPUTA guess STELA guess STIPA guess STOMA guess STRIA guess STUPA guess SUBHA guess SULFA guess SUMMA guess SUNNA guess SUONA guess SURRA guess SUTRA guess SUTTA guess SYLVA guess

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Opening information

Splits these words most evenly: SERIA of the 78 words here

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Useful letters still to test

I 27% U 22% E 19% T 19% P 18% R 18%

Words with five different letters

55% of the matches have no repeated letters.

SCUBA SEPIA SIGMA SCENA SCHWA

Common letter pairs

SA 18/78 words (23%) SE 11/78 words (14%) SI 10/78 words (13%) RA 10/78 words (13%) SU 9/78 words (12%)

Vowels

No vowels: 0% · one: 3% · two: 82% · three or more: 15%

Common questions

How many five-letter words match S___A?: 78 five-letter words match S___A in this site's Wordle guess list. Of these, 5 are possible answers.
Which matching word has the highest feedback entropy?: Among all matching words, SERIA has the highest feedback entropy at 5.64 bits against the possible answers.

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