Browse 5-Letter Words by Starting Letter

Most Common 5-Letter Words Starting With A

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

All 868 5-Letter Words Starting With A (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 AA (5)

Starting with AB (70)

Starting with AC (49)

Starting with AD (55)

Starting with AE (9)

Starting with AF (22)

Starting with AG (57)

Starting with AH (11)

Starting with AI (32)

Starting with AJ (5)

Starting with AK (13)

Starting with AL (110)

Starting with AM (59)

Starting with AN (58)

Starting with AO (1)

Starting with AP (43)

Starting with AQ (2)

Starting with AR (92)

Starting with AS (39)

Starting with AT (26)

Starting with AU (29)

Starting with AV (18)

Starting with AW (22)

Starting with AX (15)

Starting with AY (9)

Starting with AZ (17)

About 5-Letter Words Starting With A

868
Total words
141
Wordle answer words
452
No repeated letters
1 pt
Scrabble value of A

There are 868 five-letter words that start with A. 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).

The letters that most often follow A are L (110), R (92), B (70), M (59) and N (58). The biggest groups are words beginning with AL-, AR- and AB-, so if you know the second letter you can jump straight to that group in the list above.

Using These Words in Wordle

If Wordle shows a green A in the first square, the answer is one of these 868 words. 141 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: ABOUT, AFTER, AGAIN, ALONG, AMONG, ABOVE.

A strong next guess from this list is ALERT: 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 AMAZE (16 points), AZURE (14 points), AXIOM (14 points), APPLY (12 points), AWAKE (12 points). A itself is worth 1 point. To search by the exact tiles on your rack, use the word finder or the anagram solver.

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Frequently Asked Questions

There are 868 five-letter words that start with A in our list, and all of them are accepted by Wordle. The most common are ABOUT, AFTER, AGAIN, ALONG, AMONG, ABOVE, ALONE, ALBUM.
141 words on this page are on the original Wordle answer list, for example ABOUT, AFTER, AGAIN, ALONG, AMONG, ABOVE, ALONE, ALBUM. The rest are accepted as guesses but are less common words. A good guess to narrow things down is ALERT.
With standard Scrabble tile values: AMAZE (16), AZURE (14), AXIOM (14), APPLY (12), AWAKE (12). Bonus squares on the board can increase these scores.
452 of the 868 words use 5 different letters, which makes them better Wordle guesses because each letter gives you new information.