5 Letter Words Finder

Spelling Bee — the complete guide

The New York Times Spelling Bee shows you seven letters arranged like a honeycomb — one in the center, six around it — and asks for every word you can build. The rules are short enough to memorize: words must be at least four letters, every word must use the center letter, and the other six letters may be used as often as you like — or not at all. There is no penalty for wrong guesses, so the game is purely about how thoroughly you can mine one small alphabet. The Spelling Bee solver above does the mining instantly; this guide is for playing it yourself.

How scoring works

• A 4-letter word scores 1 point, no matter which letters it uses.
• A longer word scores 1 point per letter — a 7-letter word is worth 7.
• A pangram — a word that uses all seven letters at least once — earns a 7-point bonus on top. Every hive has at least one pangram, and finding it is the day's biggest single prize.
• Ranks climb with your share of the day's total points, from Beginner through Good, Solid, Great and Amazing to Genius — and finding every single word earns the rare Queen Bee.

Strategy that finds the hidden half

Most players find the obvious words and stop at half the list. The rest are hiding in method, not vocabulary:

• Work the endings. With the center letter fixed, cycle every word you find through -S, -ED, -ER, -ING, -EST and -LY. A single root often yields four or five words.
• Mine the prefixes. UN-, RE-, DE-, IN- and OUT- rebuild yesterday's finds into today's. If the hive contains U and N, try UN- in front of everything.
• Double up. Letters may repeat, so check doubled versions of the outer letters — a hive with L and A often hides words with LL or AA hiding inside longer spellings.
• Hunt the pangram by shape. Say the seven letters as a chant and shuffle their order out loud; pangrams usually reveal themselves to the ear before the eye. The solver marks every pangram in the results, and shows each word's Bee points so you can see what the long words were worth.
• Come back later. The Bee rewards a second session: words your morning brain skipped surface in the evening. Genius is a patience rank as much as a vocabulary one.

Stuck a few points from Genius? Enter the hive in the Spelling Bee solver — pangrams are marked, every word shows its points, and the list is grouped by length so you can spot the shape of what you missed without spoiling the whole hive at once.

Quordle — the complete guide

Quordle is Wordle multiplied by four: four different answers hide on four boards, every guess plays on all four boards at once, and you get nine guesses — not twenty-four — to solve them all. Each board colors its own tiles, so a single guess returns up to twenty colored letters. The game looks chaotic for the first two rows and then, if you played them well, suddenly becomes four small puzzles instead of one big one. The Quordle solver above untangles all four boards together; here is how to play it by hand.

The opening: buy letters, not answers

With four answers in play, guessing at any single board early is a waste — the same guess could be interrogating all four. Strong players spend their first three guesses on pure letter coverage: three words with fifteen different letters between them, front-loaded with the common letters from the frequency guide. One reliable sequence is RAISE (R A I S E), COUNT (C O U N T) and GLYPH (G L Y P H) — after those three rows you have tested all five vowels and ten of the most useful consonants, and every board shows you a skeleton of itself.

The middle: solve the easiest board first

After the sweep, rank the boards by how much they have revealed. The board with three greens is nearly done — finish it, because a solved board stops consuming your attention and its answer often shares letters with its neighbors. Leave the vaguest board for last: every guess you make elsewhere keeps feeding it free information. And watch the shared-guess effect the solver highlights — a word that fits two boards at once is worth more than a word that fits either alone.

The endgame: count boards, not guesses

Nine guesses for four boards means the real budget is about two solving guesses per board after the sweep. The classic loss is spending five guesses perfecting board one while board four still has three candidates and one row left. Before every guess from row five onward, ask: which board is closest to running out of rows? Play for that board. If two boards are tied, prefer the guess that is a live candidate on both — the solver's "fits 2+ boards" list is built for exactly this moment.

Daily or practice? Quordle's daily mode is one puzzle a day like Wordle; practice mode deals endless boards. The strategy is identical — sweep, solve the easiest first, protect the board with the least information — and the solver works for both: fill in each board's greens, yellows and grays separately and it returns shared guesses first.

5-letter words for Scrabble — guide & tile scores

In Scrabble, a five-letter word is the working play: long enough to reach a premium square or hook onto two words at once, short enough that your rack offers one almost every turn. Points come from the tiles themselves, so this guide starts with the only table worth memorizing — what every letter is worth — then covers the five-letter plays that actually win games.

Scrabble tile values — the full table

The values are frequency turned upside down: the letters English uses most are worth the least. That is why the highest-scoring five-letter word in the language, JAZZY at 33 points, is built from the two rarest families — J and double Z — plus a humble A. FEZZY, FIZZY and FUZZY follow at 29. Words like these almost never appear by luck; they appear because a player kept a Z or J with a workable rack instead of panicking. Tap any word on this page to see its tile score and letter-by-letter breakdown, or open the Words With Friends finder for that game's different values.

The five plays that matter

• The hook. Add one letter to a word already on the board to make a new word — front hooks (S onto almost anything) and back hooks turn an opponent's play into your points, and a five-letter result often reaches a bonus square the original could not.
• The parallel play. Lay your word alongside an existing one so every touching pair of letters also forms a word. A five-letter parallel can quietly score like a seven-letter word.
• The bingo setup. Using all seven tiles earns a 50-point bonus, and five-letter racks are where bingos are built: keep balanced leaves (a vowel-consonant mix heavy in E, A, R, S, T), and dump any rack that is all vowels or all consonants.
• Q without U. Q is not a dead tile. QAT, Qaid-style words and five-letter plays like QATAR, FAQIR and QANAT (16 five-letter words use Q with no U) rescue the 10-pointer when no U is coming.
• The 2-letter foundation. Every strong five-letter play leans on short words. The complete 2-letter and 3-letter cheat sheets — 101 and 1,015 words — are the highest-value memorization in the game, because they decide which parallels and hooks are legal.

Finding your play: type your rack into the Unscrambler, use ? for a blank, and sort by Highest Scrabble score — every word your letters can make, ranked by the points above.

Words With Friends — the complete guide

Words With Friends looks like Scrabble wearing a friendlier coat, but under the coat it is a different game: a different dictionary, different tile values, and a board whose premium squares sit in different places. If you play it with Scrabble instincts you will leave points on the table — especially the twenty-point swing hiding in the letter J. The Words With Friends finder above already scores with real WWF values; this guide explains where those values come from and how the strategy shifts.

The tile values are not Scrabble's

Most letters match, but the differences are exactly where the money is. In Words With Friends J is worth 10 (not 8), B, C, M, P and F are worth 4 (not 3 or 4 as in Scrabble), V is 5 (not 4), G is 3, L and U are 2, while H and Y drop to 3. The full WWF scale: 1 pt — A E I O R S T; 2 pts — D L N U; 3 pts — G H Y; 4 pts — B C F M P W; 5 pts — K V; 8 pts — X; 10 pts — J Q Z. Every result in the finder above is scored on this scale, so a word sorted to the top there is genuinely the best WWF play, not the best Scrabble one.

The dictionary is different too

Words With Friends plays by the ENABLE word list — about 178,000 words — which is close to, but not identical with, the tournament Scrabble lists. The practical differences show up at the edges: the complete set of legal 2-letter words here is 101 and 3-letter words 1,015, both listed in full in the cheat sheets. When a play is challenged, this list — not a Scrabble dictionary — is the referee, which is why the finder on this page searches the WWF list itself rather than borrowing Scrabble's.

Strategy shifts worth making

• Love the J. A 10-point J with no U-dependency is the best single tile in the game. Even a short J word across a triple-letter square outscores most long words.
• Mind the board. WWF's premium squares cluster differently — the triple-word squares sit closer to the edges — so plays that stretch toward a corner pay more often than Scrabble habits suggest.
• There is no 50-point bingo. Using all seven tiles earns no bonus here, so do not wreck two good turns chasing one. Steady 25-point plays beat a bingo hunt; empty your rack only when the play itself is strong.
• Defend the triple-letter squares. With so many 4- and 5-point tiles in the set, leaving a TL open beside a vowel is an invitation. Short blocking plays are worth more in WWF than in Scrabble.

Your move: type your rack into the Words With Friends finder (? for a blank) and the plays come back sorted by true WWF points — then check the board for the premium square that multiplies them.

What are 5-letter words?

A 5-letter word is any English word made of exactly five letters — APPLE, CRANE, WATER, LIGHT and HOUSE are everyday examples. This dictionary holds 15,921 of them, from common words like TABLE to rare ones like XYLYL. Five is the most searched word length by far, because the daily Wordle puzzle is always a 5-letter word, and Scrabble, Words With Friends and crosswords constantly call for words that fit a five-letter space.

The most common letters in 5-letter words are E, A, R, O and I, which is why strong Wordle openers pack several of them into one guess. Tap any example to see its full stats:

Why five letters is the magic length

Five letters is long enough to be interesting and short enough to hold in your head, which is why so many games are built around it. Wordle's whole design rests on it: six guesses at five letters gives you thirty letter-tests per puzzle — enough to solve almost any word, but few enough that a careless guess can still cost you the game. Scrabble and Words With Friends racks constantly produce five-letter plays, because five tiles is the sweet spot between what your rack holds and what the board offers. Crossword constructors love the length too: five-letter entries are the bricks that hold a grid together, linking the long answers that cross them.

What 5-letter words are made of

Most five-letter words follow a simple recipe: two vowels and three consonants. In this dictionary, 9,666 of the 15,921 words have exactly two vowels, 4,073 have just one, and 2,074 have three. A smaller, trickier group breaks the recipe entirely — 2,082 words contain a double letter (APPLE, EERIE, SASSY), 54 contain no A, E, I, O or U at all and let Y do the vowel's work (CRYPT, GLYPH, GYPSY, LYMPH), and 41 read the same backwards (CIVIC, KAYAK, LEVEL, MADAM, RADAR). Those unusual shapes matter in games: they are exactly the words players forget to guess.

Where 5-letter words come from

The fifteen-odd thousand words are not fifteen thousand separate ideas. Many are families built from a shorter root: plurals add S (nearly one in five five-letter words ends in S), past tenses add ED (422 words), adjectives and jobs add ER (523 words), and adverbs add LY (185 words). The rest come from everywhere English borrows — French (ADIEU, CAFÉS without the accent), Italian, Japanese, trade names that became ordinary words, and old spellings that never quite died. That is why the full dictionary list always contains a few words you have never seen: a word finder keeps everything that is legal in word games, not just everything that is common in conversation. The Common words only filter at the top hides the rarities when you only want everyday vocabulary.

How to explore them

Every five-letter word on this site is one tap away. Use the 5-letter words A–Z lists to browse by starting letter, ending letter or any letter inside, the common patterns to pull out shapes like double letters and ED endings, or the Word Finder at the top to combine a pattern with letters the word must and must not contain. Tap any word anywhere on the page to see its tile score, vowel count, double letters and word type.

5-letter words for Wordle — the complete guide

Wordle gives you six guesses at one hidden five-letter word, and colors every letter you try: green for the right letter in the right place, yellow for a letter that is in the word but somewhere else, and gray for a letter that is not in the word at all. That is the whole game — everything else is how well you manage the information each guess hands back to you. This guide explains how the word lists behind the game work, what makes a guess strong, and how the tools on this page fit into a daily solve. For pure tactics, read How to win Wordle next.

Two lists: the answers and the guesses

Wordle quietly runs on two different lists. The answer list is short — everyday words an editor judges fair for a daily puzzle, a couple of thousand of them. The guess list is much bigger: any real five-letter word the game accepts, including plurals, past tenses and spellings you would never use in a sentence. Your guesses may come from either list, but the answer only ever comes from the short one. That is why the Wordle Solver on this page ranks everyday words first: a possible answer is almost always a word people actually say.

The two lists leave fingerprints you can use. The letter S fills 5,871 of the 15,921 dictionary words, mostly plural endings — yet across the 1,961 published answers in our archive, S is only the eighth most common letter, because Wordle answers rarely end in a plural S. The most common letters in real answers are E, A, R, O, T, L, I and S, and nearly one answer in seven contains a double letter, so a solve that assumes "no repeats" will eventually burn you.

What a strong guess actually does

A good guess is not the word you hope is right — it is the word that eliminates the most possibilities. Early on, that means testing five different, common letters. Later, it means testing the letters that separate the few answers still standing. A guess that can be wrong in a useful way beats a guess that can only be right: if three answers remain and they differ in one letter position, guessing one of them wins one time in three, while a fresh word testing all three differing letters finds the answer every time. The solver's Best next guesses list is built on exactly this idea — it shows the average number of answers each guess leaves behind.

A daily routine that works

1. Open with coverage. Start with a word from the best starting words list — five common, different letters.
2. Follow with fresh letters. Make guess two from letters you have not tried, unless guess one nearly solved it.
3. Switch to solving. From guess three, play only words that fit every color so far — or open the solver and let it list them.
4. Watch for traps. If the pattern could be _IGHT, _ATCH or _OUND, test the differing letters instead of guessing family members one by one.

Stuck mid-game? Enter your greens, yellows and grays in the Wordle Solver tab at the top — it lists every answer that still fits, ranked with everyday words first, plus the guesses that narrow the field fastest.

How to win Wordle — a strategy that works

Most Wordle losses are not vocabulary failures — they are information failures. Players guess words they like instead of words that teach them something, then run out of rows while three answers are still possible. The strategy below is the one strong solvers actually use: buy information early, spend it late, and never let a word family trap eat your last guesses.

1. Your first two guesses are a letter sweep

Open with a high-coverage word like AROSE or SLATE, then follow with a second word built from five letters you have not touched. Two sweeps test ten different letters — including all five vowels if you plan the pair well — and by the end of guess two you usually know two to four of the answer's letters and have ruled out six that are not in it. The one exception: if guess one comes back with three or more greens, stop sweeping and solve — the position information is worth more than fresh letters.

2. Respect the gray letters — but understand doubles

Gray means "no more of this letter than the greens and yellows already shown" — not always "none." If you guess EERIE and the first E turns green while the others stay gray, the answer has exactly one E. Forgetting this is the most common way players talk themselves out of the right word. When you enter clues in the Wordle Solver, it applies this counting rule for you.

3. Solve the trap before it solves you

Some patterns hide a crowd: _IGHT alone has thirteen five-letter words (EIGHT, FIGHT, LIGHT, MIGHT, NIGHT, RIGHT, SIGHT, TIGHT and rarer ones), and _ATCH and _OUND are nearly as crowded. If your colors reveal one of these frames with three or more possible first letters and you have guesses to spare, do not guess family members one at a time. Play a word that tests several of the candidate letters at once — from FILM you test F, L and M in a single row — then the next guess is forced and correct.

4. Hard mode: blessing and trap

Hard mode forces every guess to reuse your green and yellow letters. It feels pure, and it does stop wasteful guesses — but it also locks you inside traps: in hard mode the _IGHT family must be climbed one guess at a time. If you play hard mode, protect yourself with an opener whose letters rarely form a giant family, and think twice before a second guess that creates one.

5. The endgame is arithmetic

With two guesses left and two possible answers, guess either — it is a coin flip, and no cleverer play exists. With two guesses left and three answers, the tester word wins: guess a word containing the letters that differ, and the colors will name the answer for your final row. Counting remaining answers honestly — instead of hoping — is the whole endgame. The solver's "≈ left" figure next to each suggested guess is that count, averaged over every answer still possible.

The short version: sweep letters for two guesses, obey every color including the double-letter rule, break families with a tester word, and count your remaining answers before you spend your last rows. Do those four things and six guesses is almost always enough.

How to use the Wordle solver

The Wordle Solver at the top of this page turns the colors from your guesses into the short list of answers that can still be right. It takes under a minute, and most of that minute is copying colors carefully. Here is exactly what each color means, how to enter it, and how to read what comes back.

What the three colors really mean

• Green — right letter, right spot. The letter is in the answer, in exactly that position. It never moves again; every later guess should keep it there.
• Yellow — right letter, wrong spot. The letter is in the answer, but not in the position where you played it. It has to appear somewhere else.
• Gray — not in the word (with one catch). The letter does not appear — unless the same letter also shows green or yellow in the same guess. Then gray means "no more copies than the colored ones." Guess SPEED against an answer with one E, and one E tile colors while the other stays gray.

Entering your clues, step by step

1. Open the Wordle tab at the top of this page.
2. Green letters go in the green boxes, in their exact positions.
3. For each yellow letter, type the letter and choose the position it is not in — the square where it showed yellow. If a letter showed yellow twice from two positions, add it twice with the "+ Add yellow letter" button.
4. Gray letters all go in the gray box, in any order. Include grays from every guess so far, not just the last one.
5. Tap Solve. The list that remains is every dictionary word that fits all of it.

Reading the results

Two lists come back. Possible answers is everything still consistent with your colors, everyday words first — the answer is in there. Best next guesses ranks the smartest next plays by the average number of answers each one leaves (the "≈" figure — lower is better), and marks guesses that could also win on the spot. Early in a game the best guess is usually a fresh letter sweep; late in a game it converges on the answers themselves. Tick Hard mode if you play with hard mode on — suggestions will then reuse every hint you have revealed, the way the game forces you to.

When the list looks wrong

Nine times out of ten, a missing answer means a color was copied wrong — most often a yellow entered without its "not this position," or a gray letter that was actually part of a double. Re-check the guess where a letter appears twice; that is where solvers and players both slip. If the count is right and a word is still missing, it may be a word Wordle accepts as a guess but this dictionary files as too rare — the solver searches all 15,921 five-letter words, so this is uncommon.

How to unscramble letters

Unscrambling is the skill underneath every rack game: given a handful of letters, find the words hiding inside them. The Unscrambler at the top does it instantly, but learning to see anagrams yourself makes you faster in real games — and the method below is the same one the tool effectively uses, slowed down into steps a person can follow.

The method, in order

1. Split vowels from consonants. Almost every English word needs a vowel, so count them first. Three vowels and four consonants is a generous rack; one vowel means the consonants must cluster around it.
2. Glue the pairs that travel together. CH, SH, TH, WH, QU, CK and PH behave almost like single letters. Spotting a pair instantly cuts the puzzle down.
3. Hunt endings before beginnings. Scan for -ING, -ED, -ER, -EST, -LY and -TION shapes first, then unscramble what is left for the front of the word. A rack like TAERS resolves at once once you see -ER: ASTER, RATES, STARE, TARES and TEARS are all in there.
4. Shuffle physically. In tile games, move the tiles. The brain reads left to right and gets stuck on the first pattern it sees; reordering the rack breaks the spell. Put the letters in a circle if you can — circles have no "start" to anchor on.
5. Build short, then extend. Find the two- and three-letter words first; they expose which letters combine happily. A five-letter word is often a three-letter word wearing a prefix or suffix.

Blank tiles

A blank (the ? in the unscrambler) is not a wild guess — it is the letter your rack is missing. Ask which single letter would unlock the most: usually a vowel if you have none, an S to pluralize, or the E that completes a common ending. In Scrabble a blank is worth keeping for a bingo; in a quick game it is worth spending on the highest-scoring word it completes.

Practice patterns worth memorizing

Some letter sets anagram so often that regulars learn them whole: AEINRST-style racks (the "stainer" family) produce RETAINS, NASTIER, ANESTRI and more; TAERS gives five clean five-letter words; and the vowel-heavy set AEIOU almost always hides a shorter word than you expect. The fastest way to build the instinct is volume: solve with the tool, then look at what it found and notice the ending or pair you walked past.

Common 5-letter word patterns

Words are not random strings — they fall into shapes, and knowing the shapes tells you where to look next in Wordle, what to expect on a Scrabble board, and why some guesses fail again and again. Every count below comes from this site's own dictionary of 15,921 five-letter words, and every shape is one tap away in the Common patterns section.

Double letters — 2,082 words

About one word in eight repeats a letter side by side. The repeat champions are EE (339 words, like EERIE and SLEEP), OO (336 — FLOOD, MOOSE), LL (254 — ALLEY, HELLO) and SS (156 — SASSY, GLOSS). Doubles cluster in the middle of the word, which is why they ambush Wordle players: a guess with five different letters can never turn a double green, and an answer with a double is invisible to "different letters only" thinking until late. Nearly one published Wordle answer in seven has contained one.

Endings — ED, ER, LY, LE and friends

Endings are English's building blocks, and the counts show their pecking order: ER ends 523 words (jobs, tools and comparisons — BAKER, WIDER), ED ends 422 (past tenses), AL 237, LY 185 (adverbs — SADLY, LOWLY) and LE 179 (TABLE, APPLE, UNCLE). The LE ending is the quiet one: it sounds like a single syllable, so players under-guess it, yet it closes nearly two hundred words — and it is the reason so many five-letter words end in a consonant plus E. If your Wordle board shows a late E with nothing before it, think LE before you think of another vowel.

Opening blends — ST, CH, SH, SP, BR, TR, CR, FL

Two consonants can share the start of a word, and a handful of pairs do most of the work: ST opens 215 words (STARE, STONE), CH 190, SH 182 (SHAPE, SHEEP), SP 153, BR 137, TR 128, CR 124 (CRANE, CRISP) and FL 118. S is the great beginner overall — 1,813 words, more than any other letter, start with it. Knowing the blend list turns a yellow S or T into a short list of candidate frames instead of a fog.

No-vowel words — Y does the job

Only 54 five-letter words contain no A, E, I, O or U at all. In almost all of them Y works as the vowel: CRYPT, GLYPH, GYPSY, LYMPH, HYMNS, TRYST, DRYLY, FLYBY. A hard core of eight words (like CRWTH, an old Welsh harp) has no vowel letter of any kind. These words are Scrabble gold and Wordle poison — nobody guesses them until everything else is eliminated, which is exactly why the pattern list keeps them one tap away.

Palindromes — 41 words

Just 41 five-letter words read the same both ways: CIVIC, KAYAK, LEVEL, MADAM, RADAR, REFER, TENET, SOLOS, MINIM among them. A five-letter palindrome is fully determined by its first three letters, which makes them the most pattern-recognizable words in the language — if positions 1 and 5 ever match and 2 and 4 look like a pair, test the palindrome before anything else. The full list, and every other shape in this article, lives under Common patterns.

Letter frequency — the guide behind every good guess

Every word-game decision — a Wordle opener, a hangman call, a Scrabble rack you choose to keep or dump — is quietly a bet on letter frequency. But frequency depends on where you count. The famous order from general English text (E T A O I N S H R…) describes books and newspapers. Five-letter dictionary words have their own order, and it is the one that matters for word games.

The 5-letter order

Counting every letter slot in all 15,921 five-letter words, the ranking is:

A 10.5% · E 9.8% · S 8.2% · O 6.6% · R 6.5% · I 6.4% · L 5.3% · T 5.3% · N 5.1% · U 4.2% · then D, C, Y, M, P, H, B, G, K, F, W, V — and at the far end Z 0.6%, J 0.5%, X 0.5%, Q 0.2%.

Two surprises hide in that list. A beats E, because five-letter words are packed with A's in the second position (position two is A in 2,871 words — more than any other letter in any other slot) and because plural-and-past-tense machinery favors A-containing roots. And S rides high on plurals: plenty of S words exist, but Wordle's answer list trims most plural S endings away, so in actual answers S drops to eighth. Frequency in the dictionary and frequency in the answer list are cousins, not twins. The live charts for the whole 2-to-15-letter dictionary are in Word statistics.

Position changes everything

• First letter: S starts 1,813 words — over 50% more than the runner-up, C (1,197), with A (1,174) and B (1,141) behind it.
• Second letter: almost always a vowel — A, O, E, I, U take the top five spots. A consonant here is the exception.
• Last letter: S closes 3,148 words (nearly one in five), then E (1,873) and Y (1,686).

How to spend this in each game

• Wordle: openers should live in the top ten letters — that is the whole logic of the ranked starter list. Save Q, Z, J and X hunches for when the colors demand them.
• Scrabble & Words With Friends: frequency runs backwards — common letters are worth 1 point precisely because they are common. The skill is opposite to Wordle's: keep a balanced rack (vowels near 40%), and treat the rare letters as scoring events, not building blocks.
• Hangman & Wheel-style games: guess in the order above, vowels first — E and A before everything, and remember RSTLNE, the letters the TV show gives away free, are six of the top nine.

Word statistics & facts

The numbers below are not trivia copied from a list — every one of them is counted from the same 359,039-word dictionary that powers the tools on this page, so you can check any of them with the finder above. The live tables (letter frequency across all lengths, highest scorers by length) live in Word statistics; these are the stories behind the numbers.

Five-letter facts

• 15,921 five-letter words exist in the dictionary — roughly one word in every 23 of the full list.
• JAZZY is the highest-scoring five-letter word in Scrabble: J(8) + A(1) + Z(10) + Z(10) + Y(4) = 33 points before board bonuses. FEZZY, FIZZY, FUZZY and WHIZZ follow at 29.
• 10,176 words — about two in three — use five completely different letters. The other third repeats something.
• Only 139 words contain Q, and just 16 of them manage without a U: QATAR, FAQIR, QANAT, QAIDS and their relatives.
• The most common shape is two vowels, three consonants (9,666 words). Words with no vowel letter at all: 54. Words that are all vowels: none — English does not allow a five-vowel word.
• S is the great bookend: the most common first letter (1,813 words) and the most common last letter (3,148 words).

Across the whole dictionary

• The dictionary holds 359,039 words from 2 to 15 letters. The fattest length is 9 letters, with 53,402 words; the leanest shown is 15 letters, with 8,846.
• Word length peaks in the middle for a simple reason: short words run out of combinations quickly, and long words need prefixes and suffixes to exist at all — which is why 7-to-10-letter words dominate every word game's dictionary.
• Across all lengths, E is the most common letter overall (the live chart in Word statistics shows the full ranking) — it is only inside the five-letter list that A edges it out.
• The Wordle archive on this page holds 1,961 published answers, from CIGAR on June 19, 2021 to today — and since February 2026 a handful of early answers have started repeating, which is why the count of entries is slightly higher than the count of different words.

Want to check a fact? Tap any word in any list to open its stat card — tile score, letter-by-letter points, vowels, double letters, palindrome check and word type are all computed on the spot.