5 Letter Words

Here are all 12,282 five-letter words from our word list. 2,170 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.

✅ 5 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 (12%), C (7%) and B (7%).

✅ 5 letter words ending in…

The same for the last letter. Most words end in S (31%), E (12%) and Y (10%).

✅ The 100 most common 5 letter words

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

  1. about
  2. their
  3. there
  4. which
  5. would
  6. other
  7. after
  8. first
  9. think
  10. could
  11. these
  12. where
  13. right
  14. still
  15. never
  16. those
  17. world
  18. great
  19. while
  20. every
  21. state
  22. three
  23. since
  24. under
  25. thing
  26. house
  27. place
  28. again
  29. might
  30. money
  31. night
  32. until
  33. group
  34. start
  35. today
  36. point
  37. music
  38. power
  39. water
  40. small
  41. white
  42. order
  43. party
  44. thank
  45. black
  46. whole
  47. maybe
  48. story
  49. least
  50. early
  51. local
  52. video
  53. young
  54. court
  55. level
  56. often
  57. south
  58. large
  59. wrong
  60. along
  61. class
  62. close
  63. cause
  64. happy
  65. human
  66. woman
  67. leave
  68. north
  69. watch
  70. light
  71. short
  72. third
  73. among
  74. check
  75. heart
  76. child
  77. major
  78. media
  79. phone
  80. quite
  81. final
  82. front
  83. ready
  84. bring
  85. study
  86. clear
  87. month
  88. board
  89. field
  90. fight
  91. force
  92. issue
  93. price
  94. space
  95. total
  96. above
  97. share
  98. sense
  99. break
  100. event

✅ Letters in 5 letter words

Counted over the 2,170 common words: the share of words that contain the letter, start with it or end with it.

#In the wordFirst letterLast letter
1E — 45%S — 16%E — 18%
2A — 40%C — 9%Y — 16%
3R — 36%B — 7%T — 11%
4O — 30%T — 7%R — 9%
5T — 29%P — 6%L — 7%
6I — 28%A — 6%H — 6%
7S — 27%F — 5%N — 5%
8L — 27%G — 5%D — 5%

In Wordle the answer is usually a common word, so a good first guess uses several letters from the first column. Words that end in E, Y or T and start with S, C or B are the most frequent.

Playing Wordle? 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 or practice with Wordle Unlimited. For other lengths or a pattern like C?T, try the Word Finder.

✅ 5 letter words without vowels

52 words have no A, E, I, O or U. Most of them use Y instead. The common ones are PSYCH, CRYPT, NYMPH, MYRRH, DRYLY.

✅ 5 letter words with a double letter

703 of the 2,170 common words use the same letter twice or more (32%), and here are the 120 most frequent of them. In Wordle, remember that a letter can repeat.

✅ All common 5 letter words from A to Z

The 2,170 common words. The other 10,112 words are rarer forms and old words: the finder above searches those too.

A (134)

B (154)

C (195)

D (102)

E (67)

F (118)

G (112)

H (67)

I (28)

J (22)

K (22)

L (83)

M (109)

N (36)

O (33)

P (136)

Q (20)

R (95)

S (339)

T (142)

U (29)

V (39)

W (70)

X (2)

Y (12)

Z (4)

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