5 letter words with X in position 3

There are 141 five-letter words in English with X in position 3. 28 of them appear on the curated Wordle answer list, so they are the most likely candidates if you hit this pattern in today's puzzle. X is one of the rarer letters in English, which is why the list is short — and why, when it shows up, it usually cracks the puzzle open.

Common words (28)

Words from the curated Wordle answer list — the most likely candidates for today’s solution.

vixen
boxes
maxim
mixed
toxin
sexes
toxic
boxer
sixes
pixie
vexes
fixed
pixel
boxed
waxed
sixth
buxom
fixes
texts
taxed
sixty
mixes
waxen
waxes
foxes
taxes
vexed
fixer

Other valid words (113)

Five-letter words from the broader English dictionary the game accepts as guesses, but which rarely show up as answers.

arxiv
auxin
boxen
boxla
boxty
caxon
coxae
coxal
coxed
coxes
coxib
dexes
dexie
dixie
dixit
dixon
doxed
doxes
doxie
duxes
faxed
faxes
fixit
foxed
foxie
goxes
hexad
hexed
hexer
hexes
hexyl
hoxed
hoxes
jaxie
kexes
laxed
laxer
laxes
laxly
lexar
lexes
lexis
lexus
loxed
loxes
luxed
luxer
luxes
maxed
maxes
maxis
mixen
mixer
mixte
mixup
moxas
moxie
muxed
muxes
myxos
nexts
nexus
nixed
nixer
nixes
nixie
nixon
noxal
noxes
paxes
paxil
pixar
pixes
poxed
poxes
pyxed
pyxes
pyxie
pyxis
raxed
raxes
rexes
saxes
saxon
sexed
sexer
sexto
sexts
sixer
sixmo
sixte
taxer
taxis
taxol
taxon
taxor
taxus
texas
texes
tuxes
vaxes
vexer
vexil
voxel
waxer
wexed
wexes
woxen
wuxia
yexed
yexes
zaxes
zexes

Most likely letters by position

For each slot, the letters that appear most often in these words. Color intensity reflects frequency.

Pos. 1

m11%

t10%

s9%

l9%

p9%

Pos. 2

o23%

a23%

e23%

i21%

u7%

Pos. 3

x100%

Pos. 4

e59%

i17%

t6%

o6%

a6%

Pos. 5

s38%

d18%

r11%

n9%

e9%

Most frequent letters overall

Useful for picking your next guess — frequent letters give you more information per try.

Vowels per word

How many vowels (A, E, I, O, U) these five-letter words contain.

1 vowel

12 (9%)

2 vowels

118 (84%)

3 vowels

11 (8%)