4 Letter Words

Here are all 5,213 four-letter words from our word list. 1,048 of them are common English words, and the finder shows them first. Pick a first or last letter below, or type the letters you know.

✅ 4 letter words starting with…

Tap a letter: the finder above shows every word that starts with it, common words first. Most words start with S (9%), T (6%) and P (6%).

✅ 4 letter words ending in…

The same for the last letter. Most words end in S (20%), E (13%) and T (8%).

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✅ The 100 most common 4 letter words

Ordered by how often the words appear in English texts, from THAT down.

  1. that
  2. with
  3. this
  4. have
  5. from
  6. your
  7. they
  8. will
  9. just
  10. like
  11. what
  12. when
  13. more
  14. time
  15. some
  16. also
  17. them
  18. than
  19. good
  20. only
  21. into
  22. know
  23. make
  24. over
  25. then
  26. back
  27. want
  28. well
  29. most
  30. much
  31. very
  32. even
  33. here
  34. need
  35. work
  36. year
  37. take
  38. many
  39. life
  40. down
  41. last
  42. best
  43. such
  44. love
  45. home
  46. long
  47. look
  48. same
  49. both
  50. come
  51. part
  52. find
  53. help
  54. high
  55. game
  56. give
  57. next
  58. each
  59. must
  60. show
  61. feel
  62. sure
  63. team
  64. ever
  65. keep
  66. free
  67. away
  68. left
  69. city
  70. name
  71. play
  72. real
  73. care
  74. week
  75. case
  76. full
  77. live
  78. read
  79. four
  80. hard
  81. mean
  82. once
  83. tell
  84. stop
  85. call
  86. head
  87. side
  88. less
  89. line
  90. open
  91. area
  92. face
  93. five
  94. kind
  95. hope
  96. news
  97. able
  98. book
  99. post
  100. talk

✅ Letters in 4 letter words

Counted over the 1,048 common words: the share of words that contain the letter, start with it or end with it.

#In the wordFirst letterLast letter
1E — 40%S — 10%E — 21%
2A — 37%B — 8%T — 12%
3O — 26%C — 7%K — 8%
4L — 26%P — 7%L — 7%
5R — 23%D — 7%D — 7%
6I — 22%T — 7%N — 6%
7T — 22%H — 6%P — 6%
8S — 20%F — 6%Y — 5%

In Wordle 4 Letters the answer is always one of the common words, so a good first guess uses several letters from the first column. Words that end in E, T or K and start with S, B or C are the most frequent.

Playing Wordle 4 Letters? Type the green letters in their places in the finder, add the yellow letters to “Contains” and the gray ones to “Doesn’t contain”. The list shows the words that still fit, common words first. You can also use the Wordle Solver, which works with 4 to 11 letters. For a pattern like C?T or words of any length, try the Word Finder.

✅ 4 letter words without vowels

45 words have no A, E, I, O or U. Most of them use Y instead. The common ones are MYTH, SYNC, HYMN.

✅ 4 letter words with a double letter

185 of the 1,048 common words use the same letter twice or more (18%). In Wordle, remember that a letter can repeat.

✅ All common 4 letter words from A to Z

The 1,048 common words. The other 4,165 words are rarer forms and old words: the finder above searches those too.

A (30)

B (80)

C (75)

D (70)

E (21)

F (66)

G (39)

H (67)

I (12)

J (11)

K (14)

L (65)

M (66)

N (25)

O (17)

P (73)

Q (3)

R (55)

S (102)

T (69)

U (6)

V (20)

W (52)

Y (6)

Z (4)

✅ FAQ

Word lists by length: 5 letter words · 6 letter words · 7 letter words.

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