Set the clues

Green letters

Letters you know are in the right spot

Yellow letters

Add every position where a present letter cannot go. Use Must contain twice for two copies, or the Solver for full guess rows.

Must contain

Letters known to appear somewhere in the word

Doesn't contain

Letters known to be absent after accounting for repeats

More options

Allow repeated letters (e.g. GEESE) Hide words ending in S

Have completed colored rows? Continue in Solver

Five-letter words matching _EG__

Have completed colored rows? Continue in Solver

Showing 62 matching words

Group

Shortlist

What the remaining words have in common

62 matching words2 not previously used8 past answers

Position 1R 23%B 18%L 13%S 11%

Position 4A 19%E 15%U 15%G 13%

Position 5S 27%O 10%R 10%T 10%

10 possible answers fit.

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

Top-ranked next guess BEGAN

Still undecided: 1st letter: B, L, R, S, V·4th letter: A, E, G, I, U·5th letter: E, L, N, T, Y

Possible answers

BEGAN BEGAT BEGET BEGIN BEGUN LEGAL LEGGY REGAL SEGUE VEGAN

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

BEGAN possible BEGAT possible BEGET used BEGIN used BEGUN used LEGAL used LEGGY used REGAL used SEGUE used VEGAN used AEGIS guess LEGIT guess NEGRO guess PEGGY guess VEGAS guess AEGER guess BEGAD guess BEGAR guess BEGEM guess BEGOB guess BEGOT guess BEGUM guess DEGAS guess DEGUM guess DEGUS guess LEGER guess LEGES guess LEGGE guess LEGGO guess LEGNO guess NEGRI guess NEGUS guess PEGHS guess PEGMA guess PEGOS guess REGAR guess REGES guess REGET guess REGEX guess REGGO guess REGIA guess REGIE guess REGLE guess REGMA guess REGNA guess REGOS guess REGOT guess REGUR guess SEGAR guess SEGAS guess SEGNI guess SEGNO guess SEGOL guess SEGOS guess TEGGS guess TEGUA guess TEGUS guess VEGES guess VEGGO guess VEGIE guess VEGOS guess YEGGS guess

Refine this pattern

You know the green letters. Add the gray and yellow letters from your guesses to get a live next-word suggestion and the answers still in play.

Keep going

_ER__ _EA__ _EN__ Refine in Finder →

More Wordle tools

Solver Daily Practice

Statistics

16% possible answers

Possible answers only

Opening information

Splits these words most evenly: SEGAR of the 62 words here

Need more detail?

Use the full Solver for complete guess-by-guess feedback, including repeated letters.

Open the full Solver Check repeated-letter clues

Browse A-Z word lists

A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z

More about these matches

Useful letters still to test

S 35% R 32% A 31% O 23% B 18% N 18%

Words with five different letters

56% of the matches have no repeated letters.

BEGAN BEGAT BEGIN BEGUN REGAL

Common letter pairs

EG 62/62 words (100%) RE 14/62 words (23%) GA 12/62 words (19%) BE 11/62 words (18%) GO 11/62 words (18%)

Vowels

No vowels: 0% · one: 8% · two: 81% · three or more: 11%

Common questions

How many five-letter words match _EG__?: 62 five-letter words match _EG__ 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, SEGAR has the highest feedback entropy at 5.42 bits against the possible answers.

Look up a word

Start here

This game