- 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.
Five-letter words matching _RA_H
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What the remaining words have in common
7 matching words0 not previously used5 past answersTight family: _RASH (3)
Position 1B 29%C 14%G 14%O 14%
Position 4S 43%C 29%P 14%T 14%
used already been a Wordle answer · possible on the possible-answer list · guess accepted, but not a possible answer
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Can you finish _RA_H?
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Two-turn example: ABETS
In normal mode, this play can cover 5 of 5 possible answers within two guesses, using the pattern alone.
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- Yellow, Gray, Gray, Gray, Gray GRAPH — play this answer next
- Yellow, Gray, Gray, Gray, Yellow CRASH — play this answer next
- Yellow, Gray, Gray, Yellow, Yellow TRASH — play this answer next
- Yellow, Gray, Gray, Green, Gray WRATH — play this answer next
- Yellow, Yellow, Gray, Gray, Yellow BRASH — play this answer next
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This pattern has 7 words in the Wordle guess list; 5 are possible answers. The calculator compared 14,786 Wordle guesses against those 5 answers. The possible-answer label is a guide, not a promise about what Wordle's editors will choose.
Previously used by Wordle: BRASH (May 21, 2023); CRASH (August 13, 2026); GRAPH (October 16, 2023); TRASH (April 29, 2022); WRATH (August 13, 2023).
ABETS does not fit this page's clues. TRASH 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.
Tight family:
_RASH
BRASH, CRASH, TRASH differ only in the first position. Trying them one at a time can use several turns; ABETS tests the family more efficiently.
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Pattern guide
What fits _RA_H?
All 7 matching words are shown above. 5 are possible answers.
Letters that fit the blanks
- 1st letter B, C, G, O, T, W
- 4th letter C, P, S, T
Meanings and answer history
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BRASH
Overly bold or self-assertive to the point of being insensitive, tactless or impudent; shameless.
“a brash young businessman; a brash tabloid; a brash sense of humour”
Source: Wiktionary contributors, available under CC BY-SA 4.0. Selected and lightly formatted from Wiktionary; long entries may be shortened.
Past Wordle answer: May 21, 2023.
CRASH
A sudden, intense, loud sound, as made for example by cymbals.
“The piece ended in a crescendo, building up to a crash of cymbals.”
Source: Wiktionary contributors, available under CC BY-SA 4.0. Selected and lightly formatted from Wiktionary; long entries may be shortened.
Past Wordle answer: August 13, 2026.
GRAPH
A data chart (graphical representation of data) intended to illustrate the relationship between a set (or sets) of numbers (quantities, measurements or indicative numbers) and a reference set, whose elements are indexed to those of the former set(s) and may or may not be numbers.
Source: Wiktionary contributors, available under CC BY-SA 4.0. Selected and lightly formatted from Wiktionary; long entries may be shortened.
Past Wordle answer: October 16, 2023.
TRASH
Useless physical things to be discarded; rubbish; refuse.
Source: Wiktionary contributors, available under CC BY-SA 4.0. Selected and lightly formatted from Wiktionary; long entries may be shortened.
Past Wordle answer: April 29, 2022.
WRATH
Great anger; (countable) an instance of this.
“Homer relates an episode in the Trojan War that reveals the tragic consequences of the wrath of Achilles.”
Source: Wiktionary contributors, available under CC BY-SA 4.0. Selected and lightly formatted from Wiktionary; long entries may be shortened.
Past Wordle answer: August 13, 2023.
BRACH
Originally, a synonym of scent hound (“a hunting dog that tracks prey using its sense of smell rather than by its vision”); later, any female hound; a bitch hound.
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.
ORACH
The saltbush: any of several plants of the genus Atriplex
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 _RA_H?
- 7 five-letter words match _RA_H in this site's Wordle guess list. Of these, 5 are possible answers.