Five-letter words matching _OGU_

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 coloured rows? Continue in Solver
Showing 10 matching words
Copy

Refine this pattern

The top-ranked splitter is shown in the shortlist note below. Add a gray or yellow clue here to recalculate after the position changes.

Possible answers

Shortlist note

How to play this shortlist

This pattern has 10 words in the Wordle guess list; 3 are possible answers. The calculator compared 14,786 Wordle guesses against those 3 answers. The possible-answer label is a guide, not a promise about what Wordle's editors will choose.

Previously used by Wordle: MOGUL (February 18, 2026); ROGUE (November 11, 2021); VOGUE (March 7, 2026).

Top-ranked splitter ABEAR
Average remaining
1.0
Worst branch
1
Information
1.59 bits

It is a deliberate probe rather than a possible answer here: the point is to separate the remaining answers cleanly.

Hard Mode Use ROGUE instead.

ABEAR does not fit this page's clues. ROGUE keeps every clue shown here and leaves an average remainder of 1.0 (1 in its worst branch). Check any additional yellow-position clues in the full Solver.

No obvious one-slot trap. The possible answers do not form a three-word-or-larger family that differs in only one position.

Compare two plays

Choose any two plays. The figures use the same 3 possible answers.

Pattern guide

What fits _OGU_?

All 10 matching words are shown above. 3 are possible answers.

Letters that fit the blanks

  • 1st letter B, C, M, P, R, T, V
  • 5th letter E, L, S, Y
Meanings and answer history

Definitions do not affect whether Wordle accepts a word. Report a correction.

MOGUL

A rich or powerful person; a magnate, nabob.

“a Silicon Valley tech mogul”

Source: Wiktionary contributors, available under CC BY-SA 4.0. Selected and lightly formatted from Wiktionary; long entries may be shortened.

Past Wordle answer: February 18, 2026.

ROGUE

A scoundrel, rascal or unprincipled, deceitful, and unreliable person.

Source: Wiktionary contributors, available under CC BY-SA 4.0. Selected and lightly formatted from Wiktionary; long entries may be shortened.

Past Wordle answer: November 11, 2021.

VOGUE

The prevailing fashion or style.

“Miniskirts were the vogue in the '60s.”

Source: Wiktionary contributors, available under CC BY-SA 4.0. Selected and lightly formatted from Wiktionary; long entries may be shortened.

Past Wordle answer: March 7, 2026.

BOGUS

Counterfeit or fake; not genuine.

“He was arrested for trying to cash a bogus check at the bank.”

Source: Wiktionary contributors, available under CC BY-SA 4.0. Selected and lightly formatted from Wiktionary; long entries may be shortened.

Not listed among past Wordle answers.

BOGUE

A species of seabream fish native to the eastern Atlantic (Boops boops).

Source: Wiktionary contributors, available under CC BY-SA 4.0. Selected and lightly formatted from Wiktionary; long entries may be shortened.

Not listed among past Wordle answers.

COGUE

A small round wooden vessel for holding milk.

Source: Wiktionary contributors, available under CC BY-SA 4.0. Selected and lightly formatted from Wiktionary; long entries may be shortened.

Not listed among past Wordle answers.

MOGUE

Not listed among past Wordle answers.

POGUE

A kiss.

Source: Wiktionary contributors, available under CC BY-SA 4.0. Selected and lightly formatted from Wiktionary; long entries may be shortened.

Not listed among past Wordle answers.

ROGUY

Alternative spelling of roguey.

Source: Wiktionary contributors, available under CC BY-SA 4.0. Selected and lightly formatted from Wiktionary; long entries may be shortened.

Not listed among past Wordle answers.

TOGUE

Lake trout, Salvelinus namaycush, a freshwater char of northern North America.

Source: Wiktionary contributors, available under CC BY-SA 4.0. Selected and lightly formatted from Wiktionary; long entries may be shortened.

Not listed among past Wordle answers.

Common questions
How many five-letter words match _OGU_?
10 five-letter words match _OGU_ in this site's Wordle guess list. Of these, 3 are possible answers.
Which matching word has the highest feedback entropy?
Among all matching words, ROGUE has the highest feedback entropy at 5.06 bits against the possible answers.
Keep going
More Wordle tools