Five-letter words matching _L__E

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What the remaining words have in common

117 matching words4 not previously used36 past answers

Position 1C 14%G 13%A 12%S 12%
Position 3A 26%O 22%I 19%U 13%
Position 4T 15%D 10%M 9%V 9%

40 of the 117 matches are possible answers.

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Still undecided: 1st letter: A, B, C, E, F, G, O, P, S·3rd letter: A, G, I, O, U·4th letter: A, B, C, D, K, M, N, P, R, S, T, V, Z

Possible answers

28 more possible answers are in the full list below.

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What fits _L__E?

All 117 matching words are shown above. 40 are possible answers.

More about these matches

Words with five different letters

80% of the matches have no repeated letters.

Common letter pairs

LA 30/117 words (26%) LO 26/117 words (22%) LI 23/117 words (20%) TE 17/117 words (15%) CL 16/117 words (14%)

Vowels

No vowels: 0% · one: 4% · two: 70% · three or more: 26%

Common questions
How many five-letter words match _L__E?
117 five-letter words match _L__E in this site's Wordle guess list. Of these, 40 are possible answers.
Which matching word has the highest feedback entropy?
Among all matching words, SLATE has the highest feedback entropy at 5.86 bits against the possible answers.