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Five-letter words matching _I_O_

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Showing 96 matching words

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What the remaining words have in common

96 matching words6 not previously used4 past answers

Position 1P 15%B 11%M 11%L 8%

Position 3N 14%G 10%L 10%D 9%

Position 5S 40%N 19%T 11%R 9%

10 possible answers fit.

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

Top-ranked next guess VIGOR

Still undecided: 1st letter: B, D, M, P, R, V, W·3rd letter: D, G, L, N, S, V·5th letter: N, R, T, W

Possible answers

BIGOT BISON DIVOT MINOR PILOT PIVOT RIGOR VIGOR VISOR WIDOW

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

BIGOT possible BISON possible DIVOT used MINOR possible PILOT used PIVOT possible RIGOR possible VIGOR used VISOR used WIDOW possible KILOS guess PINOT guess AIDOI guess AIDOS guess AIYOH guess AIYOO guess BIDON guess BIGOS guess BIHON guess BIJOU guess BIPOD guess BIROS guess BISOM guess BITOS guess BITOU guess CIBOL guess DICOT guess DIDOS guess DINOS guess DIVOS guess EIDOS guess EIKON guess EIRON guess FICOS guess FIDOS guess FIGOS guess FILON guess FILOS guess FINOS guess GIGOT guess GIPON guess GIRON guess GIROS guess HIKOI guess JIAOS guess JIGOT guess KIKOI guess KINOS guess LIBOR guess LIDOS guess LILOS guess LIMOS guess LINOS guess LIPOS guess LIROT guess LIVOR guess MIAOU guess MIAOW guess MICOS guess MIGOD guess MIKOS guess MILOR guess MILOS guess MINOS guess MIROS guess MISOS guess NICOL guess NIDOR guess NINON guess NITON guess PICON guess PICOT guess PILON guess PILOW guess PINOL guess PINON guess PIROG guess PISOS guess PITON guess PITOT guess PIVOS guess RIGOL guess RIMON guess SIJOS guess SILOS guess SIROC guess TIFOS guess TIGON guess TIMON guess TIROS guess VINOS guess VISON guess VIVOS guess VIZOR guess WINOS guess ZINOS guess

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Opening information

Splits these words most evenly: LIROT of the 96 words here

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Useful letters still to test

S 45% N 32% L 22% R 21% T 20% P 18%

Words with five different letters

81% of the matches have no repeated letters.

BIGOT BISON DIVOT MINOR PILOT

Common letter pairs

OS 38/96 words (40%) ON 18/96 words (19%) PI 14/96 words (15%) IN 13/96 words (14%) NO 13/96 words (14%)

Vowels

No vowels: 0% · one: 0% · two: 85% · three or more: 15%

Common questions

How many five-letter words match _I_O_?: 96 five-letter words match _I_O_ 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, LIROT has the highest feedback entropy at 5.38 bits against the possible answers.

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