5 letter words
Fill in any of the three boxes. Every result has five letters.
What this does
This page lists five-letter words and lets you narrow them three ways: by the first letter, by the last letter, and by letters that must appear somewhere inside. Use one box or all three together. Every result has exactly five letters, and the tiles settle into place whenever the list changes.
How to use it
Type a letter, or a few, in the boxes you need. Starts with matches the beginning of the word and ends with matches the end. Also contains takes letters that can sit anywhere, in any order. Results show their first words, and a button opens the rest.
The words come from the ENABLE word list, a public-domain list that many word-game players use. The site keeps the words of 2 to 15 letters made of the letters a to z. A small number of offensive words are left out. That leaves 168,318 words. 8,598 of them have five letters. A game that uses a different dictionary may accept words that are missing here, or refuse some that are shown. The search runs in your browser, and nothing you type is sent anywhere.
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Questions
Which word list does it use?
It uses the ENABLE word list, a public-domain list that many word-game players use. The original list has 172,823 entries. The site keeps the words of 2 to 15 letters made of the letters a to z. A small number of offensive words are left out. That leaves 168,318 words. It is not the official dictionary of any word game.
Can I combine the first and last letter?
Yes. Fill in both boxes, for example s and e, and the list shows five-letter words that start with s and end with e. The third box adds letters that must appear anywhere in the word.
Do the letters I type leave my browser?
No. The search runs in your browser against a word list the page loads from this site. Nothing you type is sent anywhere.