How many 5letter words exist?

The Free Dictionary lists more than 158,000 words with five letters. The the Official Scrabble Dictionary (which allows some pretty obscure five-letter words), puts the number at about 9,000.
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How many 5-letter words are there in Wordle?

You've likely seen Wordle grids in your social feeds with some of your friends comparing Wordle to Farmville and other past internet trends. Wordle draws on a list of about 2,500 five-letter words, but does it include any of these words that are part of the EMS lexicon?
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What percentage of English words have 5 letters?

Apparently, the frequency is unimodal with a peak at words with 9 letters. The 5-letter words constitute just approximately 4.3% of all words in this list.
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How many 5-letter words are in the Webster dictionary?

In fact, according to the Merriam-Webster dictionary, there are only around 4,000 five letter words in the English language. That might seem like a lot, but when you compare it to the number of six letter words (around 8,500), it's clear that five letter words are far less common.
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How many five letter words are in the Oxford dictionary?

How many 5-letter words are there? There are 171,476 words in the Oxford English Dictionary.
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What is the rarest 5 letter word?

Good luck!
  • ADIEU. Adieu means the same as goodbye. ...
  • TARES. Any of various vetch plants, such as Vicia hirsuta (hairy tare) of Eurasia and North Africa.
  • SOARE. A now obsolete noun meaning a young hawk, but one that does appear in the Wordle dictionary.
  • DUCAT. ...
  • OUIJA. ...
  • CAROM. ...
  • ERGOT. ...
  • CRAIC.
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Will Wordle run out of words?

But if you're nervous about losing Wordle, don't panic. You can download the game now to keep playing it for free on your computer, phone or tablet forever -- or more accurately until the list of 2,315 Wordle answers runs out in October 2027.
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What is the 5th longest word in English?

5. Floccinaucinihilipilification (29 letters)
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What letters are used most in Wordle?

As for the letters that begin the most English words, the top five are T, O, A, W, and B. For the end letter, the most common are E, S, T, D, and N.
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What is the most common 5 letter word?

5 Letter Words List
  • Usual.
  • Vague.
  • Valid.
  • Vital.
  • White.
  • Whole.
  • Wrong.
  • Young.
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What is the best 5 letter word to start Wordle with?

Start with a word that has a lot of vowels.

Some Wordle players have found success in starting with a word that has several vowels in it. “Adieu,” “audio” or “canoe,” for instance, may be good words to start with because at least three out of the five letters are vowels.
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What is the least common letter in Wordle?

The least common letters in all words are the usual suspects: J, Q, Z, X, and it's unlikely any five-letter Wordle word would contain any of those characters. F, V, and K are also uncommon, but these letters have higher odds of being in one of the five possible Wordle positions.
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Which letter is least used in English?

If you want to know which letters are used least in everyday English, you might agree with Samuel Morse's j, x, and z. In dictionaries, j, q, and z are found the least, but some of the words are rarely used.
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What's a good score in Wordle?

If you can consistently get Wordle in three guesses, you are pretty darn good. A score of three is solidly above average, and it is certainly nothing to frown at. Especially with harder words such as “cynic,” “vivid,” or “swill,” getting it in three is very good.
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What is the average Wordle score?

Wordle has 2,308 possible answers and 12,545 allowed guesses. The global average for solving Wordle is 4.016 guesses, with Sweden being the best country (3.72) and Egypt the worst (4.42).
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How many total words are in Wordle?

Each daily game uses a word from a randomly ordered list of 2,309 words (out of the approximate 13,000 five-letter words in the English language).
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Has anyone gotten the Wordle on the first try?

With that in mind, it's highly unlikely that 1% of all players are guessing correctly on the first try — and much more likely that some folks are cheating.
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What is the #1 most used word in Wordle?

Most common Wordle starting words

ADIEU — ADIEU was the most common response, with a total of 21 submissions. We think this is a smart word to use, as it contains nearly all of the vowels, except O, allowing you to quickly assess which vowels are or aren't in the final word.
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What is the highest ranked first word in Wordle?

Sorry Bill Gates, but AUDIO isn't the best word to start with when you're playing Wordle. A pair of MIT researchers recently set out to find the optimal starting word for the popular online puzzle, discovering that the statistically superior first guess is SALET, which is a 15th century helmet.
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What is the longest F word?

floccinaucinihilipilification (29).
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Which is the longest word in India?

The word commonly cited as the longest in Hindi is लौहपथगामिनीसूचकदर्शकहरितताम्रलौहपट्टिका (lauhpathagāminīsūchakdarshkaharitatāmralauhpaṭṭikā), which consists of 24 consonants and 10 vowel diacritics, making up a total of 34 characters. The word literally means "a green railway warning signboard made of copper-iron".
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What word takes 3 hours today?

The longest English word

The longest word in English has 189,819 letters and takes 3 hours to pronounce. This is a technical term for the chemical composition of titin. Titin is the largest known protein responsible for maintaining the passive elasticity of the muscles.
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What is the hint for Wordle 333?

Wordle 333 Hints And Answer

The answer to Wordle 333 is 'SCOUR'.
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What happens if you don't finish Wordle?

A skill score of zero is what you get if you just skipped a turn altogether. (While it's impossible to actually skip a turn in Wordle, you can get the same effect by guessing a word you've already guessed: You lose a turn and you don't learn anything new about the possible solution.)
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What are the 3 best words to start with in Wordle?

If, on the other hand, you're simply trying to win within the allotted six guesses, the top three words to play are “adept,” “clamp” and “plaid.” Using any of these three words will yield an average success rate in winning the game of 98.79 percent, 98.75 percent, and 98.75 percent, respectively, if you're playing the ...
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