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Five-letter words matching _O_TY

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Showing 36 matching words

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What the remaining words have in common

36 matching words1 not previously used4 past answers

Position 1B 14%P 14%G 8%J 8%

Position 3O 22%T 22%R 14%N 8%

Possible answers

BOOTY FORTY LOFTY POUTY SOOTY

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

BOOTY used FORTY used LOFTY used POUTY used SOOTY possible FOOTY guess MONTY guess POTTY guess BOATY guess BORTY guess BOTTY guess BOXTY guess COOTY guess DORTY guess DOTTY guess GOATY guess GOETY guess GOUTY guess HOOTY guess HOTTY guess JOLTY guess JONTY guess JOTTY guess MOITY guess MOTTY guess NOWTY guess PONTY guess POOTY guess PORTY guess ROOTY guess RORTY guess ROTTY guess SOFTY guess TOITY guess TOTTY guess ZOOTY guess

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

Previously used by Wordle: BOOTY (March 31, 2025); FORTY (March 1, 2024); LOFTY (September 10, 2022); POUTY (September 10, 2025).

Top-ranked splitter APOLS

Average remaining: 1.0
Worst branch: 1
Information: 2.32 bits

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

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APOLS does not fit this page's clues. SOFTY keeps every clue shown here and leaves an average remainder of 1.4 (2 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.

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Splits these words most evenly: GOATY of the 36 words here

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Useful letters still to test

R 19% B 14% P 14% F 11% N 11% M 8%

Words with five different letters

50% of the matches have no repeated letters.

FORTY LOFTY POUTY BOATY BORTY

Common letter pairs

TY 36/36 words (100%) OT 16/36 words (44%) OO 8/36 words (22%) TT 8/36 words (22%) BO 5/36 words (14%)

Vowels

No vowels: 0% · one: 58% · two: 42% · three or more: 0%

Common questions

How many five-letter words match _O_TY?: 36 five-letter words match _O_TY in this site's Wordle guess list. Of these, 5 are possible answers.
Which matching word has the highest feedback entropy?: Among all matching words, GOATY has the highest feedback entropy at 4.85 bits against the possible answers.

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