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Five-letter words matching _WA__

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Showing 57 matching words

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What the remaining words have in common

57 matching words2 not previously used10 past answers

Position 1S 47%A 18%D 14%T 12%

Position 4R 21%N 12%L 9%M 9%

Position 5S 23%E 14%I 9%G 5%

12 possible answers fit.

Among those candidates, SWARM produces the smallest worst-case feedback group.

Top-ranked next guess SWARM

Still undecided: 1st letter: A, D, S, T·4th letter: I, K, M, N, R, S, T·5th letter: D, E, F, G, H, I, M, P, T

Possible answers

AWAIT AWAKE AWARD AWARE AWASH DWARF SWAMI SWAMP SWARM SWASH SWATH TWANG

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

AWAIT used AWAKE used AWARD used AWARE used AWASH used DWARF used SWAMI used SWAMP used SWARM possible SWASH possible SWATH used TWANG used SWAIN guess SWANS guess SWAPS guess TWAIN guess AWARI guess AWARN guess AWATO guess AWAVE guess AWAYS guess BWANA guess BWAZI guess DWAAL guess DWALE guess DWALM guess DWAMS guess DWAMY guess DWANG guess DWAUM guess KWAAI guess OWARE guess OWARI guess SWABS guess SWACK guess SWADS guess SWAGE guess SWAGS guess SWAIL guess SWALE guess SWALY guess SWAMY guess SWANG guess SWANK guess SWAPT guess SWARD guess SWARE guess SWARF guess SWART guess SWATS guess SWAYL guess SWAYS guess TWAES guess TWALS guess TWANK guess TWATS guess TWAYS guess

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Splits these words most evenly: SWARE of the 57 words here

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Useful letters still to test

S 60% T 23% R 21% D 19% N 18% I 16%

Words with five different letters

61% of the matches have no repeated letters.

DWARF SWAMI SWAMP SWARM SWATH

Common letter pairs

WA 57/57 words (100%) SW 27/57 words (47%) AR 12/57 words (21%) AW 10/57 words (18%) DW 8/57 words (14%)

Vowels

No vowels: 0% · one: 54% · two: 30% · three or more: 16%

Common questions

How many five-letter words match _WA__?: 57 five-letter words match _WA__ in this site's Wordle guess list. Of these, 12 are possible answers.
Which matching word has the highest feedback entropy?: Among all matching words, SWARE has the highest feedback entropy at 5.33 bits against the possible answers.

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