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 _E__L

Have completed colored rows? Continue in Solver

Showing 73 matching words

Group

Shortlist

What the remaining words have in common

73 matching words5 not previously used18 past answers

Position 1M 14%R 12%B 8%D 8%

Position 3R 12%T 12%V 12%C 7%

Position 4E 37%A 36%I 11%O 7%

23 possible answers fit.

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

Top-ranked next guess PEARL

Still undecided: 1st letter: B, D, F, J, L, M, P, R·3rd letter: A, B, C, D, G, N, P, R, T, V, W, Z·4th letter: A, E, I, R

Possible answers

BETEL BEVEL BEZEL DECAL DEVIL FECAL FERAL FETAL JEWEL LEGAL LEVEL MEDAL

11 more possible answers are in the full list below.

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

BETEL possible BEVEL used BEZEL possible DECAL used DEVIL used FECAL possible FERAL used FETAL possible JEWEL used LEGAL used LEVEL used MEDAL used METAL used PEARL used PEDAL used PENAL used PERIL used PETAL used REBEL used REGAL used RENAL possible REPEL used REVEL used BEDEL guess BERYL guess BEZIL guess CECAL guess CEORL guess CETYL guess DEBEL guess DECYL guess DEDAL guess DEVEL guess FEMAL guess GEMEL guess GENAL guess HEMAL guess HEVEL guess HEXYL guess JEBEL guess KEREL guess KETOL guess KEVEL guess KEVIL guess LEMEL guess MENIL guess MEREL guess MERIL guess MESAL guess MESEL guess MESYL guess METEL guess METOL guess NEBEL guess NERAL guess NEROL guess NEVEL guess NEWEL guess NEXAL guess RECAL guess REFEL guess REOIL guess RESOL guess SEGOL guess SEPAL guess SERAL guess SETAL guess SEWEL guess TEPAL guess TEWEL guess VENAL guess VEXIL guess WEDEL 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

_E__S _E__E _E__Y Refine in Finder →

More Wordle tools

Solver Daily Practice

Statistics

32% possible answers

Possible answers only

Opening information

Splits these words most evenly: SERAL of the 73 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

A 37% R 27% M 19% T 15% V 15% N 15%

Words with five different letters

59% of the matches have no repeated letters.

DECAL DEVIL FECAL FERAL FETAL

Common letter pairs

EL 27/73 words (37%) AL 26/73 words (36%) ME 12/73 words (16%) RE 11/73 words (15%) BE 10/73 words (14%)

Vowels

No vowels: 0% · one: 7% · two: 92% · three or more: 1%

Common questions

How many five-letter words match _E__L?: 73 five-letter words match _E__L in this site's Wordle guess list. Of these, 23 are possible answers.
Which matching word has the highest feedback entropy?: Among all matching words, SERAL has the highest feedback entropy at 5.74 bits against the possible answers.

Look up a word

Start here

This game