5 FiveLetterWords

Five-letter words matching _W__T

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Possible answers

AWAIT DWELT SWEAT SWEET SWEPT SWIFT TWEET TWIST TWIXT

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This pattern has 16 words in the Wordle guess list; 9 are possible answers. The calculator compared 14,786 Wordle guesses against those 9 answers. The possible-answer label is a guide, not a promise about what Wordle's editors will choose.

Previously used by Wordle: AWAIT (September 3, 2023); DWELT (April 16, 2023); SWEAT (February 20, 2023); SWEET (March 8, 2022); TWEET (April 23, 2026); TWIST (November 24, 2024).

Top-ranked splitter CAESE
Average remaining
1.0
Worst branch
1
Information
3.17 bits

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

Hard Mode Use SWEAT instead.

CAESE does not fit this page's clues. SWEAT keeps every clue shown here and leaves an average remainder of 1.44 (2 in its worst branch). Check any additional yellow-position clues in the full Solver.

Tight family: SWE_T

SWEAT, SWEET, SWEPT differ only in the fourth position. Trying them one at a time can use several turns; CAESE tests the family more efficiently.

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Pattern guide

What fits _W__T?

All 16 matching words are shown above. 9 are possible answers.

More about these matches

Useful letters still to test

S 62% E 50% I 31% A 25% L 25% P 19%

Words with five different letters

56% of the matches have no repeated letters.

DWELT SWEAT SWEPT SWIFT OWLET

Common letter pairs

SW 12% WE 11% WI 6% TW 6% WA 5%

Vowels

No vowels: 0% · one: 62% · two: 31% · three or more: 6%

Common questions
How many five-letter words match _W__T?
16 five-letter words match _W__T in this site's Wordle guess list. Of these, 9 are possible answers.
Which matching word has the highest feedback entropy?
Among all matching words, SWEAT has the highest feedback entropy at 5.09 bits against the possible answers.
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