5-letter words
… words are exactly 5 letters long. Every Wordle answer is exactly 5 letters.
Narrow it down for Wordle
Combine the 5-letter length with a starting, ending, or contained letter.
All 5-letter words
5-letter words with no vowels
58 wordsNot one A, E, I, O or U between them. Y and W carry the syllable instead, which is exactly why these words survive a guess that rules out every real vowel.
A further 4,212 five-letter words run on exactly one vowel, among them abysm, civvy, fists, horns, mirkn, puffs, slots, tiffs. If your Wordle board has greyed out three or four vowels and you are convinced nothing fits, one of those two groups is where the answer is hiding.
Pin down the middle letter
5 is an odd length, so there is exactly one centre slot: the 3 rd letter. Pick what sits there.
Two letters confirmed, neither placed
The two-yellow-tile board. Every pair of letters has its own list; these are the vowel pairings that come up most.
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About 5-letter words
This is the single most useful length on the whole site: every Wordle answer, every day, is exactly 5 letters. Once you have a confirmed letter and its position, use the shortcuts above to narrow the list by starting, ending, or contained letter instead of scrolling the full set.
If you play Scrabble as well, the 7-letter list is the one worth bookmarking: seven is a full rack, and emptying it in a single turn earns a 50-point bingo bonus.
This is the same page whether you searched for a five letter word, 5 letter words, or led with a letter instead of the count. If you already know one of the letters, the quickest cut is to add it: pick a first letter, a last letter, or a letter anywhere from the word tools, and the list shrinks by roughly nine words in ten.
Quick answers
How many 5-letter words are there?
The live count sits at the top of this page and updates as the list loads. It counts standard dictionary words only, so names, places, and abbreviations are excluded, which is the same standard Wordle and Scrabble apply.
Are all of these valid Wordle guesses?
Close, but not identical. Wordle accepts a much wider list of five-letter words as guesses than it ever uses as answers, and the answer list is editor-curated to avoid obscure plurals and offensive words. So a word here may well be accepted as a guess without ever being the solution.
How do I narrow this list down?
Add a letter constraint. The shortcuts above filter to 5-letter words by first letter, last letter, or a letter anywhere in the word, which is far quicker than scrolling. Combining a length with one confirmed letter usually cuts the list by more than 90%.
Is 5 a useful length to study?
It is the most useful length on the site, since every Wordle answer is exactly five letters.
Does this list include plurals and verb forms?
Yes. Plurals, past tenses, and other inflected forms are ordinary dictionary words and appear here whenever they hit 5 letters. That matters most in Scrabble, where an S on the end is often the cheapest way to reach a target length.
Are there five-letter words with no vowels?
Yes, 58 of them, and they are listed further down this page. Most lean on Y or W doing the vowel's job (byrls, chynd, crwth), which is why they slip past a purely A E I O U definition. A further 4,212 five-letter words carry exactly one vowel.
Is "five letter words" the same search as "5 letter words"?
Yes. Whether you spell the number out or type the digit, and whether you lead with the length or with a letter, this is the same list of every word exactly 5 letters long. The wording changes, the words do not.
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