5-letter words

Our word list has 8,609 five-letter words, 4,423 of them in SCOWL size ≤ 50 (marked common). Below are the 601 most common five-letter words by first letter. Type a start, an ending, a pattern or letters to include or exclude, and the filter searches all 8,609.

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Bold = in SCOWL size ≤ 50 (common).

Starting with A 38

about
above
abuse
acted
added
admit
adopt
after
again
agree
ahead
aimed
alarm
album
alias
alive
allow
alone
along
alter
among
amuse
angle
angry
annoy
apart
apple
apply
areas
argue
arise
aside
asked
avoid
awake
award
aware
awful

Starting with B 32

backs
badly
based
bases
basic
basis
bears
began
begin
begun
being
below
binds
bites
black
blame
blank
block
board
books
borne
bound
boxes
brand
break
brief
bring
broke
brown
build
built
bytes

Starting with C 37

calls
cards
cares
carry
cases
catch
cause
cease
chain
chair
chaos
chars
cheap
check
child
chips
chose
claim
class
clean
clear
clock
close
coded
codes
color
comes
costs
could
count
court
cover
crash
crazy
crisp
cross
cycle

Starting with D 26

daily
dated
dates
datum
deals
dealt
death
deems
delay
depth
digit
dirty
discs
ditto
doing
doors
doubt
dozen
drawn
draws
dream
drink
drive
drops
drove
dying

Starting with E 20

early
earth
eaten
edits
eight
elect
empty
ended
enemy
enjoy
enter
entry
equal
error
evens
event
every
exact
exist
extra

Starting with F 40

facts
fails
faith
falls
false
fancy
fatal
fault
favor
feeds
feels
fewer
field
fight
filed
files
fills
final
finds
first
fixed
fixes
flash
flied
flies
float
floor
flown
folks
force
forms
forth
found
frame
fresh
fries
front
fully
funds
funny

Starting with G 21

gains
games
given
gives
glass
going
goods
grand
grant
graph
grave
great
green
grind
gross
group
grown
grows
guard
guess
guide

Starting with H 25

habit
hands
handy
hangs
happy
heads
heard
hears
heart
heavy
hello
helps
hence
hides
hints
holds
holes
hoped
hopes
horse
hotel
hours
house
human
hurry

Starting with I 9

ideal
ideas
image
imply
index
inner
input
issue
items

Starting with J 4

joins
joint
judge
jumps

Starting with K 6

keeps
kills
kinds
knock
known
knows

Starting with L 35

label
labor
lacks
lands
large
lasts
later
leach
leads
learn
least
leave
legal
level
light
liked
likes
limit
lines
links
lists
lived
lives
loads
local
locks
logic
looks
loose
lorry
loses
lower
lucky
lunch
lying

Starting with M 30

magic
major
makes
march
marks
marry
match
maybe
means
meant
media
meets
merit
messy
metal
might
miles
minds
minor
mixed
mixes
model
money
month
moral
mouth
moved
moves
movie
music

Starting with N 14

naive
named
names
nasty
needs
never
nicer
night
noise
noisy
north
noted
notes
novel

Starting with O 12

occur
offer
often
older
omits
opens
order
other
ought
outer
owing
owner

Starting with P 34

pages
pairs
paper
parts
party
patch
pause
payed
peace
phase
phone
picks
piece
place
plain
plane
plans
plant
plays
plots
point
posts
pound
power
press
price
prime
print
prior
prone
proof
prove
pulls
putts

Starting with Q 6

queue
quick
quiet
quite
quits
quote

Starting with R 19

radio
raise
range
rapid
rates
reach
react
reads
ready
refer
reply
right
river
rooms
rough
round
route
rules
rumor

Starting with S 82

sadly
safer
saint
sales
saved
saves
scale
scene
score
scrap
seeks
seems
sells
sends
sense
serve
seven
shall
shame
shape
share
sharp
sheet
shelf
shell
shift
shoot
shops
short
shown
shows
shuts
sides
sight
signs
silly
since
sites
sizes
skill
sleep
small
smile
solid
solve
sorry
sorts
sound
south
space
spare
speak
speed
spell
spelt
spend
spent
spite
split
spoke
spots
staff
stage
stand
start
state
stays
steal
stick
still
stock
stone
stood
stops
store
story
stuck
study
stuff
style
sugar
suits

Starting with T 56

table
taken
takes
talks
tanks
tapes
tasks
taste
teach
teeth
tells
tends
terms
tests
thank
their
there
these
thing
think
third
those
three
threw
throw
tight
timed
times
title
today
token
tooth
topic
total
touch
trace
track
train
traps
trash
treat
trees
trial
trick
tried
tries
truck
truly
trunk
trust
truth
turns
twice
tying
typed
types

Starting with U 10

under
unite
units
until
upper
upset
usage
users
using
usual

Starting with V 9

vague
valid
value
video
views
visit
vital
voice
votes

Starting with W 33

waits
walks
walls
wants
warns
waste
watch
water
wears
weeks
weird
wheel
where
which
while
white
whole
whose
wider
wills
woman
women
words
works
world
worry
worse
worst
worth
would
write
wrong
wrote

Starting with Y 3

years
young
yours

In numbers

Five-letter words in our list	8,609
Common (SCOWL ≤ 50)	4,423 (51.4%)
Most common words (SCOWL 10)	601
Ending in S	2,681 (31.1%)
Letters in most common words	S 48.9%, E 47.2%, A 37.7%, R 31.1%, O 28.3%
Most frequent first letters	S (1,052), C (663), B (588)

About this list

“Most common” means the word is in SCOWL size 10, the smallest and most frequent level of the Spell Checker Oriented Word Lists. The percentages in the table say how many common five-letter words contain each letter at least once – useful when you choose a guess or a play.

Most frequent letters by position (common 5-letter words)

Position	1st	2nd	3rd
1	S 13.7%	C 8.1%	B 7.5%
2	A 16.5%	O 15.2%	I 11.5%
3	A 11.3%	I 9.7%	O 8.8%
4	E 22.2%	T 7.9%	N 6.8%
5	S 32.9%	E 11%	Y 10.2%

The pattern is clear: S is most often first or last, vowels sit in positions 2 and 3, and E is the favourite fourth letter. The best starting words guide turns this into concrete first guesses.

Our list includes inflected forms, so 2,681 five-letter words (31.1%) end in S. Tick “Common words only” to hide rare ones, or exclude S in the filter.

Questions people ask

How many 5-letter words are there?

Our list has 8,609 five-letter words. 4,423 of them are common (SCOWL size 50 or less), and 601 are among the most common English words (SCOWL size 10), listed on this page.

What are good 5-letter words that start with a certain letter?

Type the letter in Starts with: the filter switches from the common-word list to all 8,609 five-letter words. Most five-letter words start with S (1,052), C (663) or B (588).

Which 5-letter words have the most vowels?

Five-letter words with four of A, E, I, O, U include ADIEU, AERIE, AUDIO, EERIE, QUEUE among common words (21 in total). No five-letter word in our list contains all five vowels.

What letter do most 5-letter words end in?

Among common five-letter words, S is last in 32.9% and E in 11%, mostly plurals and words like HOUSE.

Are there 5-letter words without vowels?

Yes, 36 if Y does not count as a vowel, for example CRYPT, CYSTS, DRYLY, FLYBY, GLYPH, GYPSY. See words without vowels.

Sources

Updated 9 November 2026 by Daniel Gavalec. Every number on this page is calculated from our word list by a script – see how the word list is built. Found an error? Tell us.