5 Letter Words: 1000+ Common Five Letter Words in English • 7ESL

A 5 letter word is one of the most common lengths of words in the English language. There are so many five letter words out there for us to choose from and we couldn’t possibly cover them all here today, but we’ll try our best to see what we can get through.

5 Letter Words

What Are 5 Letter Words?

5 letter words can come in all kinds of different forms, no two words would ever end up meaning the same thing. Whether it’s a noun you’re looking for, or maybe a verb, there will always be a 5 letter word available to you!

Do you need some help to overcome the hurdles of Wordle? Are you keen to learn something new about word game strategies? Relax, you’re in the right place for some tactical gems!

Five Letter Words and Wordle

We’re going to take it as read that you’re familiar with Wordle and jump straight into giving you useful information so you can play as well as possible and enjoy bragging rights over your friends! To do that we’re going to give you the most common letters for each position in Wordle words, from the first through to the fifth.

First letter

The letter S has the plurality here, appearing as the first letter in more than 15% of Wordle words. It is followed, in descending order, by C, B, T, P, A, and F.

Second letter

It should come as no surprise to those with knowledge of English that vowels are prominent in the second and third spots. The most frequent second letters are A, O, R, E, I, L, U, and H; each of which features over 5% of the time.

Third letter

Once again using a 5% appearance rate as our lower threshold, the letters A, I, O, E, U, R, and N each appear as the third letter in more than 5% of Wordle words.

Fourth letter

E is by far the most common letter in this position, appearing in fourth around 14% of the time. The next most frequent letters are E, N, S, A, L, I, R, C, T, and O.

Fifth letter

Although dominated by a smaller margin, E is once again the most common letter. Hot on its heels come Y, T, R, L, H, N, and D.

Bonus tip

We always give you more when we can, so here goes: in what is perhaps a surprising turnaround after it being the most frequent first letter in a Wordle word, S is one of the least common for the fifth-place slot. Appearing less than 2% of the time it ranks in a lowly 15th place.

5 Letter Words and Other Word Games

Wordle is the latest in a long line of word games to delight and confound many thousands of head-scratching players. Scrabble, invented by architect Alfred Butts in 1938, is one of the most well-known and possibly the most ubiquitous. It spawned the very similar Words With Friends, which for all its success as an online phenomenon is regarded by many word-game aficionados as being more open to chance and rewarding conservative gameplay than Butts’ creation.

Common 5 Letter Words with These Letters…

Some digraphs are more useful than others for the word gamer. Here we’re going to focus on the pairing -er. It may not have escaped your attention that the first sentence of this section contains two such words, other and gamer, but here are some helpful extras for if you find yourself with other collections of tiles.

5 letter words starting with Er: erase, erect, erode, error, and erupt,
5 letter words ending with -er: asker, biker, cuter, drier, ether, fever, goner, hover, infer, and joker.

These are just a few suggestions to get you started and there are more in each category, with the latter by far outweighing the former.

5 Letter Words List for Word Games

There are thousands of five-letter words in the English language so we’re going to focus on a few that are appropriate for trying in Wordle, as they’ll also be useful in other word games.

Considering the 10 letters that most frequently appear in Wordle words – s, e, a, o, r, i, l, t, n, u – gives us the opportunity to form a large number of five-letter words. These include: Aries, Latin, norse, arise, leant, lures, nails, rinse, stole, toner, unite, tunes, train, and saute.

5 Letter Words with A

5 Letter Words Starting with A

Aboil
Abort
Abuse
Acorn
Adapt
Admin
Admit
Admen
Affix
Agree
Ahead
Album
Alley
Allot
Allow
Amate
Amaze
Angel
Anger
Angle
Angry
Apple
Apply
Asset
Atlas
Audio
Await
Awake
Award
Aware
Awful
…

5 Letter Words Ending in A

Alpha
Aroma
Baiza
Canna
China
Drama
Delta
Extra
Flora
Guava
Hydra
Hyena
Mamba
Omega
Panda
Pizza
Quota
Salsa
Samba
Sanga
Sauna
Theta
Vesta
Villa
…

5 Letter Words Starting with B

Bacon
Badge
Badly
Baked
Baken
Baker
Banks
Baths
Beach
Beams
Beans
Beany
Beard
Beare
Bears
Beast
Benni
Bingo
Blond
Blood
Bombs
Books
Brave
Bravo
Broad
Buddy
Build
Built
…

5 Letter Words with C

5 Letter Words Starting with C

Cabin
Cable
Cacao
Canna
Canny
Canoe
Carat
Cargo
Coast
Cramp
Cruck

5 Letter Words Ending in C

Civic
Colic
Comic
Conic
Craic
Cryic
Cubic
Music
Toxic
Panic
Magic
Ethic
Humic
…

5 Letter Words with E

5 Letter Words Starting with E

Eagle
Early
Earth
Ebony
Ebook
Ebola
Ebike
Ecard
Egypt
Eight
Elbow
Emits
Emmas
Engle
Enjoy
Ennet
Enemy
Epoch
Epona
Equip
Essay
Euros
Evens
Event
Every
Evoke
Exact
Excel
Extra
…

5 Letter Words Ending in E

Abode
Above
Abuse
Adobe
Adore
Alone
Amaze
Agree
Amuse
Abide
Abure
Apple
Aware
Awoke
Bribe
Bride
Canne
Caple
Carme
Choke
Chope
Chose
Cause
Cayce
Cease
Chore
Close
Clove
Dance
Curse
Deuce
Envie
Erase
Elite
Elope
Engle
Flake
Flare
Garre
Gauze
Glope
Glove
Horse
Image
…

List of 5 Letter Words for Learning English

5 Letter Nouns

Abuse
Adult
Agent
Anger
Apple
Award
Basis
Beach
Birth
Block
Blood
Board
Brain
Bread
Break
Brown
Buyer
Cause
Chain
Chair
Chest
Chief
Child
China
Claim
Class
Clock
Coach
Coast
Court
Cover
Cream
Crime
Cross
Crowd
Crown
Cycle
Dance
Death
Depth
Doubt
Draft
Drama
Dream
Dress
Drink
Drive
Earth
Enemy
Entry
Error
Event
Faith
Fault
Field
Fight
Final
Floor
Focus
Force
Frame
Frank
Front
Fruit
Glass
Grant
Grass
Green
Group
Guide
Heart
Henry
Horse
Hotel
House
Image
Index
Input
Issue
Japan
Jones
Judge
Knife
Laura
Layer
Level
Lewis
Light
Limit
Lunch
Major
March
Match
Metal
Model
Money
Month
Motor
Mouth
Music
Night
Noise
North
Novel
Nurse
Offer
Order
Other
Owner
Panel
Paper
Party
Peace
Peter
Phase
Phone
Piece
Pilot
Pitch
Place
Plane
Plant
Plate
Point
Pound
Power
Press
Price
Pride
Prize
Proof
Queen
Radio
Range
Ratio
Reply
Right
River
Round
Route
Rugby
Scale
Scene
Scope
Score
Sense
Shape
Share
Sheep
Sheet
Shift
Shirt
Shock
Sight
Simon
Skill
Sleep
Smile
Smith
Smoke
Sound
South
Space
Speed
Spite
Sport
Squad
Staff
Stage
Start
State
Steam
Steel
Stock
Stone
Store
Study
Stuff
Style
Sugar
Table
Taste
Terry
Theme
Thing
Title
Total
Touch
Tower
Track
Trade
Train
Trend
Trial
Trust
Truth
Uncle
Union
Unity
Value
Video
Visit
Voice
Waste
Watch
Water
While
White
Whole
Woman
World
Youth

5 Letter Pronouns

One’s
There
Where
Which
Whose
Whoso
Yours
Yours

5 Letter Verbs

Admit
Adopt
Agree
Allow
Alter
Apply
Argue
Arise
Avoid
Begin
Blame
Break
Bring
Build
Burst
Carry
Catch
Cause
Check
Claim
Clean
Clear
Climb
Close
Count
Cover
Cross
Dance
Doubt
Drink
Drive
Enjoy
Enter
Exist
Fight
Focus
Force
Guess
Imply
Issue
Judge
Laugh
Learn
Leave
Let’s
Limit
Marry
Match
Occur
Offer
Order
Phone
Place
Point
Press
Prove
Raise
Reach
Refer
Relax
Serve
Shall
Share
Shift
Shoot
Sleep
Solve
Sound
Speak
Spend
Split
Stand
Start
State
Stick
Study
Teach
Thank
Think
Throw
Touch
Train
Treat
Trust
Visit
Voice
Waste
Watch
Worry
Would
Write

5 Letter Adjectives

Above
Acute
Alive
Alone
Angry
Aware
Awful
Basic
Black
Blind
Brave
Brief
Broad
Brown
Cheap
Chief
Civil
Clean
Clear
Close
Crazy
Daily
Dirty
Early
Empty
Equal
Exact
Extra
Faint
False
Fifth
Final
First
Fresh
Front
Funny
Giant
Grand
Great
Green
Gross
Happy
Harsh
Heavy
Human
Ideal
Inner
Joint
Large
Legal
Level
Light
Local
Loose
Lucky
Magic
Major
Minor
Moral
Naked
Nasty
Naval
Other
Outer
Plain
Prime
Prior
Proud
Quick
Quiet
Rapid
Ready
Right
Roman
Rough
Round
Royal
Rural
Sharp
Sheer
Short
Silly
Sixth
Small
Smart
Solid
Sorry
Spare
Steep
Still
Super
Sweet
Thick
Third
Tight
Total
Tough
Upper
Upset
Urban
Usual
Vague
Valid
Vital
White
Whole
Wrong
Young

5 Letter Conjunctions

Afore
After
Bothe
Other
Since
Slash
Until
Where
While

5 Letter Adverbs

Aback
Abaft
Aboon
About
Above
Accel
Adown
Afoot
Afore
Afoul
After
Again
Agape
Agogo
Agone
Ahead
Ahull
Alife
Alike
Aline
Aloft
Alone
Along
Aloof
Aloud
Amiss
Amply
Amuck
Apace
Apart
Aptly
Arear
Aside
Askew
Awful
Badly
Bally
Below
Canny
Cheap
Clean
Clear
Coyly
Daily
Dimly
Dirty
Ditto
Drily
Dryly
Dully
Early
Extra
False
Fatly
Feyly
First
Fitly
Forte
Forth
Fresh
Fully
Funny
Gaily
Gayly
Godly
Great
Haply
Heavy
Hella
Hence
Hotly
Icily
Infra
Intl.
Jildi
Jolly
Laxly
Lento
Light
Lowly
Madly
Maybe
Never
Newly
Nobly
Oddly
Often
Other
Ought
Party
Piano
Plain
Plonk
Plumb
Prior
Queer
Quick
Quite
Ramen
Rapid
Redly
Right
Rough
Round
Sadly
Secus
Selly
Sharp
Sheer
Shily
Short
Shyly
Silly
Since
Sleek
Slyly
Small
So-So
Sound
Spang
Srsly
Stark
Still
Stone
Stour
Super
Tally
Tanto
There
Thick
Tight
Today
Tomoz
Truly
Twice
Under
Utter
Verry
Wanly
Wetly
Where
Wrong
Wryly

5 Letter Prepositions

Abaft
Aboon
About
Above
Adown
Afore
After
Along
Aloof
Among
Below
Circa
Cross
Furth
Minus
Neath
Round
Since
Spite
Under
Until

5 Letter Interjections

Aargh
Adieu
Adios
Alack
Aloha
Avast
Bakaw
Basta
Begad
Bless
Blige
Brava
Bravo
Bring
Chook
Damme
Dildo
Ditto
Frick
Fudge
Golly
Gratz
Hallo
Hasta
Havoc
Hella
Hello
Howay
Howdy
Hullo
Huzza
Jesus
Kapow
Loose
Lordy
Marry
Mercy
Night
Plonk
Psych
Quite
Salve
Skoal
Sniff
Sooey
There
Thiam
Thwap
Tough
Twirp
Viola
Vivat
Wacko
Wahey
Whist
Wilma
Wirra
Woops
Wowie
Yecch
Yeeha
Yeesh
Yowch
Zowie

Conclusion

We hope you’ve enjoyed our brief foray into this subject. Limits on space have inevitably curtailed the extent to which we could explore each element, but the intention was to whet your appetite, give you solid relevant facts, and supply you with practical advice. The fact remains that no matter how seasoned a practitioner of English you are, playing word games is always going to be beneficial in building your vocabulary and strengthening your lexical muscles!