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How to solve Wordle puzzles: Words with ‘ES’ in the middle

Keep that winning streak.

Wordle can be a lot of fun to play—it’s like a solitaire experience where the player challenges themselves to complete the game each day. Or it can be a group experience, with friends playing and sharing results in the fewest attempts.

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Worlde is something that harks back to the classic crossword puzzle in the newspaper and that’s probably why it was bought by the New York Times, which has long been famous for its daily games.

Whatever your motivation, looking for the right answer can sometimes lead you to run out of ideas for the next attempt. It could be that after your first green letter, you only got one more. And, when you look at your previous attempts, you will see a letter ‘E’ in the second position and a letter ‘S’ in the third. If you need help figuring out what other letters accompany those “ES” in the middle of the word of the day, you can count on us.

We have a nice list of words to help you narrow down your next choices.

Five-letter words with ‘ES’ in the middle

  • beses
  • beset
  • besom
  • besot
  • bests
  • cesta
  • cesti
  • desex
  • deshi
  • desis
  • desks
  • fesse
  • festa
  • fests
  • gesso
  • geste
  • gests
  • hests
  • jesse
  • jests
  • mesas
  • meshy
  • mesic
  • mesne
  • meson
  • messy
  • nests
  • pesky
  • pesos
  • pesto
  • pests
  • pesty
  • resat
  • resaw
  • resay
  • resee
  • reses
  • reset
  • resew
  • resid
  • resin
  • resit
  • resod
  • resow
  • rests
  • tesla
  • testa
  • tests
  • testy
  • vesta
  • vests
  • wests
  • yeses
  • zests
  • zesty

Don’t forget to always start by choosing words that are already familiar to you, as Wordle often chooses more common words as its answers. If it’s still hard to find the right answer, another useful tip is to try to figure out what all the vowel letters in the word are, that way you can eliminate a lot of wrong choices.

These tips should help you complete your latest Wordle task.


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Raul Rocha
Freelance writer for Dot Esports. Playing video games since childhood, Raul Rocha has over twenty years experience as a gamer and four years translating and writing gaming news.