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Wordle game help: 5-letter words with ‘I’, ‘L’, and ‘N’ 

A list to help with your daily game.

Wordle is a versatile game that can surprise you with the many ways you can have fun with it. While many play without worrying about scores, other players take their game effort to another level.

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Its rules are quite simple and it is easy to play, but experienced players may find complexity in managing the five-letter words. Depending on the secret word of the day, starting with specific words can narrow your next choices down to under 100 words.

Words like ‘SLATE’, ‘ARISE’ or ‘CARES’ that use some of the more common letters are likely to contain letters that will be present in the correct answer.

Related: Wordle Game Help: 5-letter words with ‘I’ as the only vowel

If you used your first guesses and could only find the presence of the letters ‘I’, ‘L’, and ‘N’ in the correct answer, not knowing for sure their positions, here are some five letter words with ‘I’, ‘ L’, and ‘N’ in them, sorted alphabetically so you have less trouble filtering your choices by the letters you’ve already eliminated.

Five-letter words with ‘I’, ‘L’, and ‘N’ to try on Wordle

  • algin
  • alien
  • align
  • aline
  • aloin
  • anile
  • anils
  • anvil
  • binal
  • blain
  • blind
  • bling
  • blini
  • blink
  • blins
  • bliny
  • cline
  • cling
  • clink
  • clint
  • colin
  • elain
  • eldin
  • elfin
  • elint
  • eloin
  • elsin
  • enlit
  • final
  • fling
  • flint
  • glint
  • incle
  • indol
  • ingle
  • inkle
  • inlay
  • inlet
  • intel
  • intil
  • inula
  • kilns
  • kylin
  • lakin
  • lanai
  • lapin
  • lawin
  • layin
  • lenis
  • lenti
  • levin
  • liana
  • liane
  • liang
  • liens
  • ligan
  • ligne
  • liken
  • likin
  • liman
  • limen
  • limns
  • linac
  • linch
  • linds
  • lindy
  • lined
  • linen
  • liner
  • lines
  • liney
  • linga
  • lingo
  • lings
  • lingy
  • linin
  • links
  • linky
  • linns
  • linny
  • linos
  • lints
  • linty
  • linum
  • linux
  • lions
  • lipin
  • liven
  • login
  • loins
  • lungi
  • lupin
  • lying
  • lysin
  • nails
  • nelis
  • nicol
  • nidal
  • nihil
  • nills
  • nirls
  • nirly
  • nival
  • noils
  • noily
  • olein
  • plain
  • pling
  • plink
  • silen
  • slain
  • sling
  • slink
  • snail
  • ulmin
  • unlid
  • unlit
  • until
  • vinal
  • vinyl

All the words on this list are accepted by Wordle and will give you more clues as to which letters are present or not in the word of the day until you get it right.

Another good tip to get it right as early as possible is to find which other vowels are present in the word of the day to narrow down your options. Beware of words that may have repeated letters and don’t forget to try words you already know first, since Wordle tends to choose more common words as the right answer, at least in most cases.

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.