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Showing 74 matching words

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What the remaining words have in common

74 matching words4 not previously used10 past answers

Position 1B 11%S 11%A 8%W 8%

Position 4E 42%O 12%D 11%G 8%

Position 5S 30%R 14%Y 14%D 9%

14 possible answers fit.

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

Top-ranked next guess WIDER

Still undecided: 1st letter: A, B, C, G, M, R, T, V, W·4th letter: A, D, E, G, O, S, T·5th letter: E, H, L, N, O, R, T, W, Y

Possible answers

AIDER BIDDY CIDER GIDDY MIDGE MIDST RIDER RIDGE TIDAL VIDEO WIDEN WIDER

2 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

AIDER possible BIDDY possible CIDER used GIDDY used MIDGE used MIDST used RIDER used RIDGE used TIDAL used VIDEO used WIDEN used WIDER possible WIDOW possible WIDTH used AIDED guess AIDES guess HIDES guess KIDDO guess RIDES guess SIDED guess SIDES guess TIDES guess AIDAS guess AIDOI guess AIDOS guess BIDED guess BIDER guess BIDES guess BIDET guess BIDIS guess BIDON guess BIDRI guess CIDED guess CIDES guess DIDDY guess DIDIE guess DIDIS guess DIDOS guess DIDST guess EIDER guess EIDOS guess FIDES guess FIDGE guess FIDOS guess FIDUS guess HIDED guess HIDER guess KIDDY guess KIDEL guess KIDEO guess KIDGE guess LIDAR guess LIDOS guess MIDDY guess MIDGY guess MIDIS guess NIDAL guess NIDED guess NIDES guess NIDOR guess NIDUS guess OIDIA guess RIDGY guess RIDIC guess SIDAS guess SIDER guess SIDEY guess SIDHA guess SIDHE guess SIDLE guess TIDDY guess TIDED guess WIDDY guess WIDES guess

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Splits these words most evenly: AIDER of the 74 words here

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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

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Useful letters still to test

E 53% S 41% R 20% O 18% A 16% Y 14%

Words with five different letters

58% of the matches have no repeated letters.

AIDER CIDER MIDGE MIDST RIDGE

Common letter pairs

ID 74/74 words (100%) DE 31/74 words (42%) DO 10/74 words (14%) ES 10/74 words (14%) DI 9/74 words (12%)

Vowels

No vowels: 0% · one: 16% · two: 68% · three or more: 16%

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How many five-letter words match _ID__?: 74 five-letter words match _ID__ in this site's Wordle guess list. Of these, 14 are possible answers.
Which matching word has the highest feedback entropy?: Among all matching words, AIDER has the highest feedback entropy at 5.41 bits against the possible answers.

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