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Five-letter words matching _AW__

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Showing 88 matching words

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What the remaining words have in common

88 matching words0 not previously used3 past answers

Position 1T 10%D 9%P 9%B 8%

Position 4E 22%N 16%A 15%K 14%

Position 5S 45%Y 17%D 13%R 6%

3 possible answers fit.

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

Top-ranked next guess BAWDY

Still undecided: 1st letter: B, G, T·4th letter: D, K, N

Possible answers

BAWDY GAWKY TAWNY

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

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Splits these words most evenly: TAWER of the 88 words here

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Useful letters still to test

S 53% E 26% D 25% N 23% Y 22% K 17%

Words with five different letters

75% of the matches have no repeated letters.

BAWDY GAWKY TAWNY BAWDS BAWKS

Common letter pairs

AW 88/88 words (100%) WE 19/88 words (22%) WA 15/88 words (17%) WN 14/88 words (16%) WK 12/88 words (14%)

Vowels

No vowels: 0% · one: 56% · two: 41% · three or more: 3%

Common questions

How many five-letter words match _AW__?: 88 five-letter words match _AW__ 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, TAWER has the highest feedback entropy at 5.26 bits against the possible answers.

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