They're drawn from a broad English word list, not a single tournament dictionary. If you're playing competitively, double-check against your game's official list (TWL or SOWPODS) before you commit to a play.

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Want 5-letter words with 1 vowel? There are 3 729 words here, pulled from a broad English word list and run through every filter on this page. Five-letter words carry extra weight thanks to Wordle — one puzzle, six guesses — so this list moonlights as a solver whenever you're stuck. Top of the scoreboard: "pzazz", worth 34 points in Scrabble and Words With Friends.

Reach for these first if you want something no scorekeeper will argue with: apply, banks, birth, black, block, blogs. Common words like these show up in most game dictionaries, so they're safe, low-risk plays. Want something sneakier — harder to guess, less likely to get challenged — use the filters below to narrow by extra letters.

S, Y, R, T, A show up most often in this group — worth remembering when you're deciding which tiles to hang onto. J, X, Q turn up far less, and they're usually what pushes a word's score higher when they do.