5 FiveLetterWords

Five-letter words matching _Y_N_

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What the remaining words have in common

23 matching words3 not previously used3 past answers

Position 1H 17%N 13%A 9%C 9%
Position 3I 39%A 17%E 13%O 13%
Position 5G 43%S 39%A 4%O 4%

Possible answers

DYING EYING HYENA LYING TYING VYING

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

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How to play this shortlist

This pattern has 23 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: HYENA (December 8, 2024); LYING (September 19, 2021); VYING (December 12, 2024).

Top-ranked splitter DEALT
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.

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DEALT does not fit this page's clues. DYING keeps every clue shown here and leaves an average remainder of 3.0 (4 in its worst branch). Check any additional yellow-position clues in the full Solver.

Trap warning: _YING

DYING, EYING, LYING, TYING, VYING differ only in the first position. Trying them one at a time can use several turns; DEALT tests the family more efficiently.

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Pattern guide

What fits _Y_N_?

All 23 matching words are shown above. 6 are possible answers.

More about these matches

Useful letters still to test

G 52% I 39% S 39% A 30% E 17% H 17%

Words with five different letters

74% of the matches have no repeated letters.

DYING EYING HYENA LYING TYING

Common letter pairs

NG 10/23 words (43%) YI 9/23 words (39%) IN 9/23 words (39%) NS 9/23 words (39%) HY 4/23 words (17%)

Vowels

No vowels: 13% · one: 65% · two: 22% · three or more: 0%

Common questions
How many five-letter words match _Y_N_?
23 five-letter words match _Y_N_ 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, AYONT has the highest feedback entropy at 5.08 bits against the possible answers.