Five-letter words matching _Q__B
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SQUIB is the only possible answer that fits.
The other match is a valid Wordle guess, but not a possible answer.
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What fits _Q__B?
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Letters that fit the blanks
- 1st letter S
- 3rd letter U
- 4th letter A, I
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SQUIB
A small firework that is intended to spew sparks rather than explode.
“English Navy squibs set fire to two dozen enemy ships in a Dutch harbor during the 16th-century battle against the Spanish Armada.”
Source: Wiktionary contributors, available under CC BY-SA 4.0. Selected and lightly formatted from Wiktionary; long entries may be shortened.
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SQUAB
A fledgling (young) bird.
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- 2 five-letter words match _Q__B in this site's Wordle guess list. Of these, 1 is a possible answer.