On the verge of solving today’s Wordle? You figured out that the last four letters are “URLY” but you can’t find the first letter. While you are close to the answer, you can’t think of any words that end with those four letters. It’s definitely a word you have heard of before, but you can’t remember any of them now. With a word list containing words that end with those letters, you can refresh your mind and recall the words you have seen before.
If the word list fails at jogging your memory, there are still tactics you can use to help. It takes out some of the challenge, but it allows you to maintain your daily streak.
What five letter words end with URLY?
There are four common words that have “URLY” as their final four letters, which are:
- Burly
- Curly
- Hurly
- Surly
Should you be fortunate enough to have four tries remaining, you have solved today’s Wordle. You can plug in all the words and one of them will turn out to be the correct answer. Unless you are deliberately trying to fail the puzzle, you can’t go wrong with four words and four tries.
On the other hand, anyone with less than three tries must make a plan to avoid breaking your daily streak. The go-to plan is looking for a word that includes the potential first letters of each word. For example, “Brick” contains the first letters of “Burly” and “Curly” which you can use to test two words at once. Alternatively, words like “Baths” test three words at once.
Test these words and see what the results say. If any letter is correct (or correct in the wrong place), that’s the word you go with. Since you only need one letter to be right, you have the puzzle’s solution once you know the correct first letter. Alternatively, if none are correct, that also narrows the field and lets you try the other words.
You can also check words you previously tried and see if you tested any of them already. If you already tried “S” and it wasn’t correct, then “Surly” won’t be the correct answer. This preserves your tries while narrowing down the field.
It might take some work and a lucky guess, but you can solve today’s Wordle and maintain your daily streak!
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