5 FiveLetterWords

Five-letter words matching __B_R

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Possible answers

AMBER ARBOR CYBER DEBAR EMBER FIBER LABOR REBAR SOBER TUBER

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This pattern has 38 words in the Wordle guess list; 10 are possible answers. The calculator compared 14,786 Wordle guesses against those 10 answers. The possible-answer label is a guide, not a promise about what Wordle's editors will choose.

Previously used by Wordle: AMBER (December 6, 2022); ARBOR (February 24, 2023); CYBER (January 5, 2025); EMBER (January 28, 2024); FIBER (October 19, 2024); LABOR (September 21, 2021); SOBER (April 2, 2026); TUBER (October 24, 2025).

Top-ranked splitter AMIDO
Average remaining
1.2
Worst branch
2
Information
3.12 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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AMIDO does not fit this page's clues. IMBAR 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 __B_R?

All 38 matching words are shown above. 10 are possible answers.

More about these matches

Useful letters still to test

E 63% A 50% O 29% U 29% I 18% M 16%

Words with five different letters

79% of the matches have no repeated letters.

AMBER CYBER DEBAR FIBER LABOR

Common letter pairs

BE 12% ER 12% AR 8% BA 7% AB 5%

Vowels

No vowels: 0% · one: 3% · two: 97% · three or more: 0%

Common questions
How many five-letter words match __B_R?
38 five-letter words match __B_R in this site's Wordle guess list. Of these, 10 are possible answers.
Which matching word has the highest feedback entropy?
Among all matching words, TABER has the highest feedback entropy at 5.41 bits against the possible answers.
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