5 FiveLetterWords

Five-letter words matching __TR_

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Possible answers

ENTRY EXTRA INTRO METRO RETRO RETRY ULTRA

Shortlist note

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This pattern has 31 words in the Wordle guess list; 7 are possible answers. The calculator compared 14,786 Wordle guesses against those 7 answers. The possible-answer label is a guide, not a promise about what Wordle's editors will choose.

Previously used by Wordle: ENTRY (June 18, 2026); EXTRA (December 25, 2022); INTRO (April 25, 2024); METRO (April 26, 2023); RETRO (June 27, 2022); RETRY (October 25, 2023); ULTRA (February 12, 2022).

Top-ranked splitter BEAMY
Average remaining
1.0
Worst branch
1
Information
2.81 bits

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

Hard Mode Use ENTRY instead.

BEAMY does not fit this page's clues. ENTRY keeps every clue shown here and leaves an average remainder of 1.29 (2 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 __TR_?

All 31 matching words are shown above. 7 are possible answers.

More about these matches

Useful letters still to test

E 58% I 39% N 29% A 29% O 29% Y 16%

Words with five different letters

58% of the matches have no repeated letters.

ENTRY EXTRA INTRO METRO ULTRA

Common letter pairs

TR 25% RE 9% RA 6% RO 6% ET 6%

Vowels

No vowels: 0% · one: 13% · two: 81% · three or more: 6%

Common questions
How many five-letter words match __TR_?
31 five-letter words match __TR_ in this site's Wordle guess list. Of these, 7 are possible answers.
Which matching word has the highest feedback entropy?
Among all matching words, ANTRE has the highest feedback entropy at 5.68 bits against the possible answers.
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