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Yellow tile in Wordle? In Wordle, a yellow tile on L means the letter is in the answer but not in the position you guessed. All 3016 words below contain L somewhere. Use the Wordle Solver to filter by known and eliminated letters.
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All 3,016 Five-Letter Words Containing L

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Share of dataset
24.2%

3,016 of 12,478 verified words

Five unique letters
69.7%

2,101 words without repeats

Average vowel count
1.7

Most common bucket: 2 vowels

Average Scrabble score
8.3

Calculated from standard English tile values

How To Narrow Words That Contain L

Containing-letter pages are the bridge between a yellow tile and a fully specified pattern. L appears somewhere in 3,016 verified five-letter words, with the most common opening letters at L (551), S (323), and C (210) and the most common endings at S (840), L (465), and E (341).

From here, the useful next step is to split the pool by position. If the letter is ruled out from one or two slots, the related position pages and Wordle Solver cut the set down much faster than browsing the full alphabetical list.

Example Words From This List

CLADE

a group of biological taxa or species that share features inherited from a common ancestor

2 vowels | No repeats | Scrabble 8
LISPS

a speech defect that involves pronouncing `s' like voiceless `th' and `z' like voiced `th'

1 vowels | Has repeat | Scrabble 7
LUCKS

your overall circumstances or condition in life (including everything that happens to you)

1 vowels | No repeats | Scrabble 11
PILUS

any of the cylindrical filaments characteristically growing from the epidermis of a mammal

2 vowels | No repeats | Scrabble 7
POLOS

venetian traveler who explored asia in the 13th century and served kublai khan (1254-1324)

2 vowels | Has repeat | Scrabble 7
YODEL

a songlike cry in which the voice fluctuates rapidly between the normal voice and falsetto

2 vowels | No repeats | Scrabble 9