Word Gallery

4 Letter Words

There are 5,556 words of four letters. 3,924 are playable in Scrabble or Words With Friends, 966 are in everyday use, and the highest scorer is zizz at 31 points.

The words

The 400 most common of 5,556, everyday words first. The word finder below reaches all of them.

Everyday words 400

What is in this list

Every word shows its Scrabble score, with the Words With Friends score on hover. Both are raw tile totals: bonus squares depend on where a word is placed, not on the word.

Words in total
5,556
Playable in Scrabble or Words With Friends
3,924 (71%)
Everyday words
966
Archaic or rare
1,632
Highest Scrabble score
zizz at 31
Average Scrabble score
7.6
Letters that turn up most
A 38%, E 32%, S 28%, O 28%, I 23%, R 21%

Four-letter words by first letter

Every 4 letter word grouped by the letter it starts with.

Four-letter words by last letter

The same words grouped by their final letter—the shape of clue a crossword gives you.

Four-letter words containing a letter

Words of four letters that contain a given letter anywhere.

Questions

How many 4 letter words are there?
5,556 across the dictionaries this site merges. 3,924 of those are playable in a word game; the remaining 1,632 come from Webster's 1913 and are largely obsolete. 966 are everyday English, which is the number that matters if you are trying to think of one rather than validate one.
Which 4 letter word scores highest in Scrabble?
zizz, at 31 points in Scrabble and 31 in Words With Friends. That is raw tile value, before any bonus square.
Are all of these valid in Scrabble?
3,903 of the 5,556 appear in ENABLE, the list Scrabble and Words With Friends programs validate against. Words outside it are shown last, dimmed and labelled, so you do not stake a turn on one.
What are the most common 4 letter words?
Ranked by how often they appear in ordinary English: that, this, with, from, your, have, more, will.

Search your own letters

The finder below is set to four letters. Type a rack and it will return every word of this length you can spell from it, or switch to a pattern and give the positions you know. It searches all 315,007 words, in your browser.

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