Browse 5-Letter Words by Contained Letter

Most Common 5-Letter Words Containing P

Everyday words that are most likely to be a Wordle answer, most common first.

All 2,264 5-Letter Words Containing P (A–Z)

Every word on this page is accepted as a guess in Wordle (it comes from the standard Wordle list of 14,855 five-letter words). Words highlighted in green are on the original Wordle answer list.

Starting with A (77)

Starting with B (24)

Starting with C (105)

Starting with D (38)

Starting with E (28)

Starting with F (9)

Starting with G (62)

Starting with H (39)

Starting with I (12)

Starting with J (18)

Starting with K (40)

Starting with L (44)

Starting with M (29)

Starting with N (25)

Starting with O (35)

Starting with P (1,130)

Starting with Q (7)

Starting with R (64)

Starting with S (286)

Starting with T (82)

Starting with U (41)

Starting with V (11)

Starting with W (28)

Starting with Y (22)

Starting with Z (8)

About 5-Letter Words Containing P

2,264
Total words
346
Wordle answer words
1,517
No repeated letters
3 pts
Scrabble value of P

There are 2,264 five-letter words that contain P. Every word on this page is accepted as a guess in Wordle (it comes from the standard Wordle list of 14,855 five-letter words).

Where P appears: position 1 in 1,130 words, position 2 in 249, position 3 in 426, position 4 in 466 and position 5 in 165. It is most often found in position 1. 163 of these words contain P more than once, such as HAPPY, PAPER, APPLY.

Using These Words in Wordle

If Wordle shows a yellow or green P, the answer is one of these 2,264 words. 346 of them are on the original Wordle answer list, which is a much smaller set of everyday words; they are highlighted in green in the list above. Examples: PLACE, GROUP, POINT, POWER, PARTY, HAPPY.

A strong next guess from this list is OPERA: it uses five different letters that appear often in Wordle answers, so it rules out as many words as possible. To combine this with your other green, yellow and grey tiles, use the Wordle Helper.

Highest-Scoring Words for Scrabble and Words With Friends

Using standard Scrabble tile values (before bonus squares), the highest-scoring well-known words here are PIZZA (25 points), PROXY (17 points), EPOXY (17 points), PRIZE (16 points), PLAZA (16 points). P itself is worth 3 points. To search by the exact tiles on your rack, use the word finder or the anagram solver.

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There are 2,264 five-letter words that contain P in our list, and all of them are accepted by Wordle. The most common are PLACE, GROUP, POINT, POWER, PARTY, HAPPY, PHONE, PRICE.
346 words on this page are on the original Wordle answer list, for example PLACE, GROUP, POINT, POWER, PARTY, HAPPY, PHONE, PRICE. The rest are accepted as guesses but are less common words. A good guess to narrow things down is OPERA.
With standard Scrabble tile values: PIZZA (25), PROXY (17), EPOXY (17), PRIZE (16), PLAZA (16). Bonus squares on the board can increase these scores.
1,517 of the 2,264 words use 5 different letters, which makes them better Wordle guesses because each letter gives you new information.