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Five-letter words matching _E__D

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Showing 81 matching words

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What the remaining words have in common

81 matching words0 not previously used5 past answers

Position 1R 16%B 9%H 9%M 9%

Position 3A 11%W 11%R 7%X 7%

Position 4E 48%I 17%A 11%R 10%

5 possible answers fit.

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

Top-ranked next guess BEARD

Still undecided: 1st letter: B, F, H, T, W·3rd letter: A, I, P, T·4th letter: I, R

Possible answers

BEARD FETID HEARD TEPID WEIRD

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: HEARD of the 81 words here

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Useful letters still to test

R 30% A 22% I 21% T 15% W 15% B 14%

Words with five different letters

37% of the matches have no repeated letters.

BEARD FETID HEARD TEPID WEIRD

Common letter pairs

ED 41/81 words (51%) RE 18/81 words (22%) ID 14/81 words (17%) WE 12/81 words (15%) TE 10/81 words (12%)

Vowels

No vowels: 0% · one: 0% · two: 95% · three or more: 5%

Common questions

How many five-letter words match _E__D?: 81 five-letter words match _E__D 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, HEARD has the highest feedback entropy at 5.24 bits against the possible answers.

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