5 Letter Words
All 13,001 of them — but sorted so the 8,102 you would actually use come first. An alphabetical list of five-letter words is complete and almost useless; the word you want is buried under a thousand you have never met.
The 120 most common
Ordered by how often they turn up in ordinary English.
- about
- other
- which
- their
- there
- first
- would
- these
- click
- price
- state
- world
- music
- after
- video
- where
- books
- links
- years
- order
- items
- group
- under
- games
- could
- great
- hotel
- store
- terms
- right
- local
- those
- using
- phone
- forum
- based
- black
- check
- index
- being
- women
- today
- south
- pages
- found
- house
- photo
- power
- while
- three
- total
- place
- think
- north
- posts
- media
- water
- since
- guide
- board
- white
- small
- times
- sites
- level
- hours
- image
- title
- shall
- class
- still
- money
- every
- visit
- tools
- reply
- value
- press
- learn
- stock
- point
- sales
- large
- table
- start
- model
- human
- movie
- march
- yahoo
- going
- study
- staff
- again
- never
- users
- topic
- below
- party
- login
- legal
- above
- quote
- story
- rates
- young
- field
- paper
- girls
- night
- texas
- poker
- issue
- range
- court
- audio
- light
- write
Starting a guess?
The best opening word is the one that shares a letter with the most possible answers. We ranked all of them by that measure — the top guess touches 95.7% of the list.
By starting letter
By letter contained
For when you know a letter is in the word but not where it sits.
Which letters carry the most
Most common
s e a o r i
S appears in 46% of all five-letter words.
Rarest
f v z j x q
Q appears in just 0.9% — guess it late, not early.
About this list
13,001 words, every one valid in standard word games. Roughly 62% are common enough that a native speaker would recognise them; the rest are listed but kept below the fold of each page, because a list that treats house and aalii as equally likely is not a list anyone can use.