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5 Letter Words with X as the First Letter

All 18 valid five-letter words that have X as the first letter – useful when you have a green tile in position 1 in Wordle.

There are 18 five-letter words matching this pattern in the Wordle word list, including 0 possible Wordle answers. Common examples include XEROX, XENIA, XENON, XEBEC, XENIC.

18 words  ·  0 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.
XENIA
XENIA
XERIC
XERIC
XERUS
XERUS
XRAYS
XRAYS
XENIC
XENIC
XYLAN
XYLAN
XYLEM
XYLEM
XOANA
XOANA
XYSTI
XYSTI
XEROX
XEROX
XYLIC
XYLIC
XENON
XENON
XOLOS
XOLOS
XEBEC
XEBEC
XYLOL
XYLOL
XYSTS
XYSTS
XYLYL
XYLYL
XVIII
XVIII

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This page lists all 18 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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