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5 letter words with Y

There are 2,347 five-letter words that contain Y.

417 of them were in Wordle's original answer list; the other 1,930 are accepted as guesses.

Words that contain Y that were Wordle answers (417)

Other accepted guesses that contain Y (1,930)

Good guesses from this list

Words from this list whose letters are the most common among these 2,347 words, so they cut the list down fastest: EARLY, SAMEY, POSEY, POREY, SOAPY, NOSEY.

Which letters go where

PositionMost common letters (word count)
First letterP (208), Y (205), S (195)
Second letterO (446), A (415), Y (298)
Third letterY (246), R (216), N (210)
Fourth letterE (298), L (204), T (200)
Fifth letterY (1527), S (298), E (114)

Y appears twice in 53 of these words. Where it sits: first letter in 205, second letter in 298, third letter in 246, fourth letter in 124, fifth letter in 1,527.

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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.