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Five-letter words matching __UR_

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Showing 83 matching words

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83 matching words3 not previously used8 past answers

Position 1S 17%A 12%C 12%B 8%

Position 2O 31%A 14%L 11%N 10%

Position 5S 23%A 11%E 11%N 11%

11 possible answers fit.

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

Top-ranked next guess SPURN

Still undecided: 1st letter: A, B, C, G, M, S, U·2nd letter: H, L, O, P, S, Z·5th letter: B, D, E, N, P, T

Possible answers

AZURE BLURB BLURT CHURN COURT GOURD MOURN SLURP SPURN SPURT USURP

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

AZURE used BLURB used BLURT used CHURN used COURT used GOURD possible MOURN used SLURP possible SPURN possible SPURT used USURP used FOURS guess HOURS guess LAURA guess POURS guess SLURS guess SPURS guess TOURS guess YOURS guess ABURA guess ABURN guess AHURU guess ALURE guess ALURK guess ANURA guess ASURA guess AZURN guess AZURY guess BAURS guess BLURS guess BOURD guess BOURG guess BOURN guess CAURI guess CHURL guess CHURR guess COURB guess COURD guess COURE guess COURS guess CRURA guess DAURS guess DOURA guess EMURE guess ENURE guess ENURN guess EXURB guess FAURD guess FLURR guess GAURS guess GOURA guess HOURI guess INURE guess INURN guess JOURS guess KAURI guess KAURU guess KAURY guess KNURL guess KNURR guess KNURS guess KOURA guess LOURE guess LOURS guess LOURY guess MAURI guess OFURO guess SAURY guess SCURF guess SCURS guess SHURA guess SLURB guess SMURS guess SOURS guess STURE guess STURT guess THURL guess UHURU guess USURE guess USURY guess WAURS guess YOURN guess YOURT guess

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Splits these words most evenly: ALURE of the 83 words here

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S 39% A 33% O 33% L 19% N 18% B 14%

Words with five different letters

69% of the matches have no repeated letters.

AZURE BLURT CHURN COURT GOURD

Common letter pairs

UR 83/83 words (100%) OU 26/83 words (31%) RS 19/83 words (23%) AU 12/83 words (14%) RE 9/83 words (11%)

Vowels

No vowels: 0% · one: 25% · two: 47% · three or more: 28%

Common questions

How many five-letter words match __UR_?: 83 five-letter words match __UR_ in this site's Wordle guess list. Of these, 11 are possible answers.
Which matching word has the highest feedback entropy?: Among all matching words, ALURE has the highest feedback entropy at 5.59 bits against the possible answers.

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