5 letter words for Wordle

The best 5 letter word for Wordle is raise.

Wordle allows every player only six tries to find the daily answer. If you want to solve every Wordle word puzzle it is important to use a good first starting word. Learning common 5 letter words or using a Wordle finder also helps.

5 letter word to start Wordle

The best 5 letter word to start Wordle with has to contain five unique letters. To raise the probability of success the distinct letters should be the most frequently used ones. 5 letter words in this list are statistically proven winners from the Wordle dictionary:

1. Raise
2. Stare
3. Arose
4. Aisle
5. Tales
6. Uraei
7. Ourie
8. Audio
9. Based
10. Naive
11. Email
12. Alike
13. Stern
14. Rants
15. Rents
16. Tarns
17. Turns
18. Snarl

Remember that guessing the daily Wordle answer is meant to be a challenge. Playing word games should be fun. We recommend you make use of the best first word in a way that keeps the word puzzle solving exciting. Your daily starter word allows you to choose the difficulty level of the Wordle word puzzle. More experienced puzzle solvers might play their favorite word or a random funny word as a first guess. Some people like the daily challenge of coming up with a brand new word.

Good 5 letter words to start Wordle

What if the first starting word is not enough for solving today's Wordle puzzle? It helps to have a second and third word in order to cover most of the letters in the alphabet. Two words will cover 10 letters. Three words will cover 15 letters. Four words will cover 20 letters.

Best two 5 letter starter words for Wordle

1. Raise, 2. Doily
1. Arise, 2. Ought
1. Irate, 2. Cloud
1. Round, 2. Shape
1. Chaos, 2. Merit

Best three 5 letter starter words for Wordle

1. Stare, 2. Doily, 3. Punch
1. Siren, 2. Octal, 3. Dumpy
1. Slate, 2. Drown, 3. Quick
1. Spite, 2. Flour, 3. Candy

Best four 5 letter starter words for Wordle

1. Brake, 2. Clots, 3. Dying, 3. Whump

Best Wordle solving strategy

Solving Wordle becomes easier if you use more top starting words that only contain unique letters. The same letters can appear more than once, however it is not effective to play duplicate letters at the beginning of the game. Using 5 letter words without repeating letters might seem like an obvious tip, but it is also the most effective strategy. Using all four of the first words(brake, clots, dying, whump) will likely allow you to win Wordle every time.

5 letter words with most vowels for Wordle

It is possible to play all five vowels(A, E, I, O, U) by using these two vowel heavy words as starters: 'raise' and 'tough'. Never repeat the same vowel in the word you play.

1. Uraei
2. Ourie
3. Miaou
4. Louie
5. Aurei
6. Audio
7. Adieu
8. Zowie
9. Zonae
10. Zoeas
11. Zoeal
12. Zaire
13. Yowie
14. Youse
15. Waive
16. Voile
17. Voila
18. Voice
19. Vogue
20. Vogie

A memorable example of a powerful 5 letter word that contains the most vowels is 'adieu'.

5 letter words with most consonants for Wordle

Five letters long consonant heavy words will always contain at least one or two vowels. Because there are so many consonants(B, D, F, G, H, J, K, L, M, P, Q V, X, Z, W and Y) we need to look at letter frequencies in 5 letter words to know what words contain unique and popular consonant letters. The most frequently used consonant letters are S, R, L, T, N, D, C, P, M.

1. Wynds
2. Tryst
3. Synth
4. Synch
5. Sylph
6. Rynds
7. Psych
8. Nymph
9. Myths
10. Lynch
11. Lymph
12. Hymns
13. Hwyls
14. Glyph
15. Crypt
16. Crwth
17. Byrls
18. Zymes
19. Zonks
20. Zloty
21. Wrung
22. Wrong
23. Wrath
24. Frost
25. World
26. Verbs
27. Vamps
28. Velds
29. Trust
30. Truly
31. Trick
32. Track
33. Trend
34. Think

Great Wordle start words with lots of consonants that together cover the most consonant letters are 'stern' and 'clamp'.

Most common letters in 5 letter words

Statistical letter frequency analysis of five letter words for Wordle. Letter frequency research clearly shows that some letters are more common than others. Knowing the most used letters in 5-letter words we created helpful lists of the best Wordle start words.

List of most common letters that 5-letter words contain:

46.02% of words contain S
44.15% of words contain E
40.53% of words contain A
30.44% of words contain R
29.71% of words contain O
28.16% of words contain I
24.68% of words contain L
23.77% of words contain T
21.44% of words contain N
18.75% of words contain U
17.82% of words contain D
15.93% of words contain C

List of most common letters that 5-letter words start with:

11.95% of words start with S
7.6% of words start with C
6.93% of words start with B
6.64% of words start with P
6.46% of words start with T
5.67% of words start with A
5.21% of words start with M
5.21% of words start with D
4.88% of words start with G
4.82% of words start with F
4.81% of words start with R

List of most common letters that 5-letter words end in:

31.11% of words end in S
10.67% of words end in Y
10.45% of words end in E
6.47% of words end in D
5.86% of words end in R
5.4% of words end in T
4.58% of words end in A
4.2% of words end in N
3.82% of words end in L
2.92% of words end in H
2.81% of words end in O
2.08% of words end in K

Least common letters in Wordle

0.9% of words contain Q
2.14% of words contain J
2.35% of words contain X
2.68% of words contain Z
5.24% of words contain V
7.55% of words contain W
7.84% of words contain F
10.56% of words contain K
11.42% of words contain B
11.86% of words contain G

Looking at the frequency statistics of 5 letter words it becomes clear that the most useful letters for Wordle are S, E, A, R, O, I. An example word that can be made from these top Wordle letters is "arose". The most useless Wordle letters you should avoid in a first word guess are Q, J, X, Z.

How many 5 letter words are there in Wordle?

Our word game dicitonary uses 12 709 five letter words. The larger the word list is the more unique and obscure the words become.

Wordle word list contains 2309 words that are more common. It makes sense for Wordle to use a dictionary of common words that players know. Word games need to be solvable and fun.