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5 letter words with W

There are 1,115 five-letter words that contain W.

194 of them were in Wordle's original answer list; the other 921 are accepted as guesses.

Words that contain W that were Wordle answers (194)

Other accepted guesses that contain W (921)

Good guesses from this list

Words from this list whose letters are the most common among these 1,115 words, so they cut the list down fastest: WAWES, WARES, WANES, WALES, WADES, WEANS.

Which letters go where

PositionMost common letters (word count)
First letterW (434), S (150), T (75)
Second letterA (214), O (213), W (177)
Third letterW (305), A (132), O (115)
Fourth letterE (222), W (143), L (80)
Fifth letterS (342), Y (115), E (109)

W appears twice in 12 of these words. Where it sits: first letter in 434, second letter in 177, third letter in 305, fourth letter in 143, fifth letter in 68.

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Related lists

Green tiles are in the original Wordle answer list. The game has changed its answers since, so any word on this page can still be a guess, and a few non-green words may now be answers.