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How to Search for Ive Letter Words in the English Language

If you don't know any of the letters in the search you type a dot, a period for every character. We can string two regular expressions together to ask for five letter words with an a in the second position and in the fourth or fifth position. It turns out there's only seven words in the english language that match that pattern. That turned out to be the answer to whordle two o eight. But if you used this trick early in the game it would be a great basis to narrowing things down for your next guess.

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