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5-letter words starting with PY

There are 10 5-letter words starting with PY in the standard word-game list. The most common are pygmy, pylon, pyoid, pyran, pyxie, pyxis. Every five-letter word here is a valid Wordle guess, and the commonest ones are the likeliest answers.

Most common, with meanings

WordMeaningPoints
pygmyan unusually small individual16
pylona tower for guiding pilots or marking the turning point in a race10
pyoidResembling or relating to pus.11
pyranAny of a class of unsaturated heterocyclic compounds containing a ring of five carbon atoms, an oxygen atom…10
pyxiecreeping evergreen shrub having narrow overlapping leaves and early white star-shaped flowers; of the pine…17
pyxisfruit of such plants as the plantain; a capsule whose upper part falls off when the seeds are released17

All 10 words