Five-letter words matching _LI__

Green letters (right spot)
Yellow letters (wrong spots)

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

Have completed colored rows? Continue in Solver
Showing 117 matching words
Copy

Shortlist

What the remaining words have in common

117 matching words9 not previously used26 past answers

Position 1F 14%S 14%B 13%C 13%
Position 4N 16%M 11%E 10%T 9%
Position 5S 27%E 19%T 10%K 9%

35 of the 117 matches are possible answers.

Add a yellow or gray clue to narrow the list. On a fresh board, SLIER has the highest cached entropy among all matching words.

Still undecided: 1st letter: A, B, C, E, F, G, I, O, P, S·4th letter: A, B, C, D, E, F, G, K, M, N, R, S, T, V·5th letter: B, C, D, E, F, G, I, K, N, P, R, S, T, Y, Z

Possible answers

23 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

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
More Wordle tools

Pattern guide

What fits _LI__?

All 117 matching words are shown above. 35 are possible answers.

More about these matches

Words with five different letters

78% of the matches have no repeated letters.

Common letter pairs

LI 117/117 words (100%) IN 19/117 words (16%) FL 16/117 words (14%) SL 16/117 words (14%) AL 15/117 words (13%)

Vowels

No vowels: 0% · one: 52% · two: 32% · three or more: 16%

Common questions
How many five-letter words match _LI__?
117 five-letter words match _LI__ in this site's Wordle guess list. Of these, 35 are possible answers.
Which matching word has the highest feedback entropy?
Among all matching words, SLIER has the highest feedback entropy at 5.67 bits against the possible answers.