Word Gallery

5 Letter Words

There are 17,242 words of five letters. 14,865 are playable in Scrabble or Words With Friends, 1,241 are in everyday use, and the highest scorer is pzazz at 34 points.

Five letters is the Wordle length. Set the letters you have confirmed in the finder below and it will narrow this list to the words still possible—that is the same job the green and yellow squares are doing, done exhaustively.

The words

The 400 most common of 17,242, 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
17,242
Playable in Scrabble or Words With Friends
14,865 (86%)
Everyday words
1,241
Archaic or rare
2,377
Highest Scrabble score
pzazz at 34
Average Scrabble score
9.2
Letters that turn up most
A 44%, E 42%, S 41%, O 30%, R 30%, I 28%

Five-letter words by first letter

Every 5 letter word grouped by the letter it starts with.

Five-letter words by last letter

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

Five-letter words containing a letter

Words of five letters that contain a given letter anywhere.

Questions

How many 5 letter words are there?
17,242 across the dictionaries this site merges. 14,865 of those are playable in a word game; the remaining 2,377 come from Webster's 1913 and are largely obsolete. 1,241 are everyday English, which is the number that matters if you are trying to think of one rather than validate one.
Which 5 letter word scores highest in Scrabble?
pzazz, at 34 points in Scrabble and 35 in Words With Friends. That is raw tile value, before any bonus square.
Are all of these valid in Scrabble?
8,636 of the 17,242 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 5 letter words?
Ranked by how often they appear in ordinary English: about, other, which, their, there, first, would, these.

Search your own letters

The finder below is set to five 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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