This list contains letter frequency for 5 letter Scrabble words.
How many 5 letter words are there?
TWL Scrabble dictionary contains
9403 five letter words, that is
5.01% of all words.
Scrabble Collins dictionary contains
12478 five letter words, that is
4.66% of all words.
Frequency of letters in 5 letter words
- 46.02% contains S
- 44.15% contains E
- 40.53% contains A
- 30.44% contains R
- 29.71% contains O
- 28.16% contains I
- 24.68% contains L
- 23.77% contains T
- 21.44% contains N
- 18.75% contains U
- 17.82% contains D
- 15.93% contains C
- 15.59% contains Y
- 14.71% contains P
- 14.28% contains M
- 13.37% contains H
- 11.86% contains G
- 11.42% contains B
- 10.56% contains K
- 7.84% contains F
- 7.55% contains W
- 5.24% contains V
- 2.68% contains Z
- 2.35% contains X
- 2.14% contains J
Letter frequency counts for five letter Scrabble words clearly show that these words most often contain the letters
S, E, A, R, O and least often the letter
X. Letter distributions of 5-letter words are an useful resource for Scrabble players.
Starting letter frequencies of 5 letter words
- 11.95% starts with S
- 7.6% starts with C
- 6.93% starts with B
- 6.64% starts with P
- 6.46% starts with T
- 5.67% starts with A
- 5.21% starts with M
- 5.21% starts with D
- 4.88% starts with G
- 4.82% starts with F
- 4.81% starts with R
- 4.68% starts with L
- 3.86% starts with H
- 3.3% starts with W
- 2.55% starts with K
- 2.36% starts with N
- 2.22% starts with E
- 2.07% starts with O
- 1.88% starts with V
- 1.57% starts with J
- 1.38% starts with U
- 1.33% starts with I
- 1.16% starts with Y
- 0.69% starts with Z
- 0.62% starts with Q
- 0.14% starts with X
Five letter words begin most frequently with these letters
S, C, B, P and T.
Ending letter frequencies of 5 letter words
- 31.11% ends in S
- 10.67% ends in Y
- 10.45% ends in E
- 6.47% ends in D
- 5.86% ends in R
- 5.4% ends in T
- 4.58% ends in A
- 4.2% ends in N
- 3.82% ends in L
- 2.92% ends in H
- 2.81% ends in O
- 2.08% ends in K
- 1.91% ends in I
- 1.44% ends in M
- 1.34% ends in P
- 1.07% ends in G
- 1.07% ends in C
- 0.62% ends in F
- 0.55% ends in X
- 0.44% ends in W
- 0.44% ends in B
- 0.43% ends in U
- 0.27% ends in Z
- 0.03% ends in Q
- 0.02% ends in V
- 0% ends in J
Five letter words end most frequently with these letters
S, Y, E, D and R.
Frequencies of vowels and consonants in 5 letter words
Frequency of 5-letter words with vowels:
59.04% of words(5552) contain 2 vowels,
9.36% of words(880) contain 3 vowels,
0.23% of words(22) contain 4 vowels.
Frequency of 5-letter words with consonants:
9.36% of words(880) contain 2 consonants,
59.02% of words(5550) contain 3 consonants,
30.87% of words(2903) contain 4 consonants.
