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5 Letter Words Starting with NY

11 valid five-letter words that begin with NY – helpful when you have green tiles in positions 1 and 2 in Wordle.

There are 11 five-letter words matching this pattern in the Wordle word list, including 2 possible Wordle answers. Common examples include NYLON, NYMPH, NYSSA, NYAFF, NYALA.

11 words  ·  2 possible Wordle answers

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Entropy measures how much information a word gives you as a Wordle opening guess. A higher entropy score means the word splits the 2,315 possible Wordle answers into more equal groups – revealing more about the answer on average.
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"Answers" are the 2,315 words from the official NYT Wordle answer pool – these are the only words that can appear as the day's puzzle. All other valid 5-letter words can be used as guesses but will never be the answer.
NYUSE
NYUSE
NYAMS
NYAMS
NYALA
NYALA
NYUZE
NYUZE
NYSSA
NYSSA
NYLON
NYLON
Answer
NYMPH
NYMPH
Answer
NYONG
NYONG
NYING
NYING
NYAFF
NYAFF
NYUNG
NYUNG

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This page lists all 11 five-letter words matching the constraint above from the complete Wordle-valid word list of 14,855 words. Words marked Answer are from the NYT Wordle answer pool of 2,315 words – these are the ones that can actually appear as the day's puzzle.

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