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Five-letter words matching __I_L

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Showing 43 matching words

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What the remaining words have in common

43 matching words1 not previously used16 past answers

Position 1S 23%T 19%A 7%C 7%

Position 2R 33%H 23%W 12%P 9%

Position 4L 40%R 21%A 19%E 12%

17 possible answers fit.

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

Top-ranked next guess SHILL

Still undecided: 1st letter: A, C, D, F, G, K, Q, S, T, W·2nd letter: H, K, P, R, T, U, W, X·4th letter: A, E, L, R

Possible answers

AXIAL CHILL DRILL FRILL GRILL KRILL QUILL SHILL SKILL SPIEL SPILL STILL

5 more possible answers are in the full list below.

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

AXIAL possible CHILL used DRILL used FRILL used GRILL used KRILL used QUILL used SHILL used SKILL used SPIEL used SPILL used STILL used SWILL used SWIRL used TRIAL used TWIRL used WHIRL used ARIEL guess BRILL guess APIOL guess CHIEL guess CHIRL guess GLIAL guess ILIAL guess KRIOL guess KWIRL guess MAILL guess NJIRL guess ORIEL guess PHIAL guess PRIAL guess PRILL guess QUIRL guess SHIEL guess SKIRL guess SPIAL guess THILL guess THIOL guess THIRL guess TRILL guess TRIOL guess TWILL guess URIAL guess

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Splits these words most evenly: ARIEL of the 43 words here

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Useful letters still to test

R 53% A 26% H 23% S 23% T 21% P 16%

Words with five different letters

53% of the matches have no repeated letters.

SPIEL SWIRL TRIAL TWIRL WHIRL

Common letter pairs

IL 18/43 words (42%) LL 17/43 words (40%) RI 14/43 words (33%) HI 10/43 words (23%) IR 9/43 words (21%)

Vowels

No vowels: 0% · one: 53% · two: 33% · three or more: 14%

Common questions

How many five-letter words match __I_L?: 43 five-letter words match __I_L in this site's Wordle guess list. Of these, 17 are possible answers.
Which matching word has the highest feedback entropy?: Among all matching words, ARIEL has the highest feedback entropy at 5.77 bits against the possible answers.

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