5 Letter Words Ending in Y

A green Y at the end is a gift: Y rarely appears elsewhere in a five-letter word, so once it is fixed in position five the remaining structure is highly predictable. Every word below comes from the GuessNudge five-letter dataset.

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Finding Wordle words that end in Y

Words ending in Y usually treat the Y as their only vowel sound, which means the middle letters often include a second real vowel or a common consonant pair such as -LL-, -RR- or -CK-. Reading the list with that pattern in mind makes it much quicker to scan.

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