5 FiveLetterWords

Five-letter words matching _RO_L

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Possible answers

BROIL DROLL DROOL GROWL PROWL TROLL

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This pattern has 13 words in the Wordle guess list; 6 are possible answers. The calculator compared 14,786 Wordle guesses against those 6 answers. The possible-answer label is a guide, not a promise about what Wordle's editors will choose.

Previously used by Wordle: BROIL (June 15, 2026); DROLL (June 28, 2022); DROOL (December 14, 2024); GROWL (October 24, 2021); PROWL (April 30, 2024); TROLL (December 30, 2021).

Top-ranked splitter GUILD
Average remaining
1.0
Worst branch
1
Information
2.58 bits

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

Hard Mode Use DROLL instead.

GUILD does not fit this page's clues. DROLL keeps every clue shown here and leaves an average remainder of 2.0 (3 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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Pattern guide

What fits _RO_L?

All 13 matching words are shown above. 6 are possible answers.

More about these matches

Useful letters still to test

P 31% D 23% W 23% B 15% I 15% C 15%

Words with five different letters

54% of the matches have no repeated letters.

BROIL GROWL PROWL CROWL DROIL

Common letter pairs

RO 25% OL 12% PR 8% DR 6% LL 6%

Vowels

No vowels: 0% · one: 46% · two: 54% · three or more: 0%

Common questions
How many five-letter words match _RO_L?
13 five-letter words match _RO_L in this site's Wordle guess list. Of these, 6 are possible answers.
Which matching word has the highest feedback entropy?
Among all matching words, PROAL has the highest feedback entropy at 5.24 bits against the possible answers.
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