5-Letter Words Matching _ _ E S _

78 valid 5-letter words match the pattern _ _ E S _, 17 of which are common words. 2 green letters locked in.

17 common words78 valid words

Common Words (17)

Words most likely to be the answer.

fresh
flesh
chest
wrest
cress
bless
guest
crest
poesy
obese
these
quest
guess
dress
geese
chess
press

Other Valid 5-Letter Words (61)

Valid as guesses, but unlikely to be the answer.

adest
amess
arest
awest
baese
beest
blest
bress
brest
chese
cresa
cresc
deess
doesn
doest
drest
dyess
egest
emesa
evese
ewest
eyess
feest
fnese
fress
geest
ghess
giess
idest
keese
keest
kress
leesa
leese
liesa
liesh
liest
loess
meese
neese
orest
ovest
piest
presa
presb
prese
prest
reese
reesk
reest
riess
siest
teest
thess
tresa
tress
trest
umest
weesh
weest
wiese

What These Words Have in Common

Letter patterns across all 78 matches.

Most common letters

e78
s78
t34
r26
a11
h10
l9
i9
d8
b8

Vowel distribution

  • 0 with no vowels
  • 48 with 1 unique vowel
  • 29 with 2 unique vowels
  • 1 with 3+ unique vowels

Most common endings

  • -st · 30 words
  • -ss · 19 words
  • -se · 14 words
  • -sa · 6 words
  • -sh · 4 words

Strategy

17 answers fit. Look at the most common remaining letters above and choose a guess that probes the unknown positions.

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