Browse 5-Letter Words by Starting Letter

Most Common 5-Letter Words Starting With E

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

All 330 5-Letter Words Starting With E (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 EA (28)

Starting with EB (9)

Starting with EC (10)

Starting with ED (10)

Starting with EE (6)

Starting with EF (3)

Starting with EG (8)

Starting with EH (1)

Starting with EI (9)

Starting with EJ (2)

Starting with EK (3)

Starting with EL (32)

Starting with EM (34)

Starting with EN (35)

Starting with EO (3)

Starting with EP (15)

Starting with EQ (4)

Starting with ER (25)

Starting with ES (13)

Starting with ET (19)

Starting with EU (5)

Starting with EV (13)

Starting with EW (4)

Starting with EX (30)

Starting with EY (8)

Starting with EZ (1)

About 5-Letter Words Starting With E

330
Total words
72
Wordle answer words
151
No repeated letters
1 pt
Scrabble value of E

There are 330 five-letter words that start with E. 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 E are N (35), M (34), L (32), X (30) and A (28). The biggest groups are words beginning with EN-, EM- and EL-, 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 E in the first square, the answer is one of these 330 words. 72 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: EVERY, EARLY, EVENT, ENJOY, EARTH, EIGHT.

A strong next guess from this list is EARLY: 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 EPOXY (17 points), EQUIP (16 points), ENJOY (15 points), EQUAL (14 points), EXACT (14 points). E 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 330 five-letter words that start with E in our list, and all of them are accepted by Wordle. The most common are EVERY, EARLY, EVENT, ENJOY, EARTH, EIGHT, EXTRA, ENTER.
72 words on this page are on the original Wordle answer list, for example EVERY, EARLY, EVENT, ENJOY, EARTH, EIGHT, EXTRA, ENTER. The rest are accepted as guesses but are less common words. A good guess to narrow things down is EARLY.
With standard Scrabble tile values: EPOXY (17), EQUIP (16), ENJOY (15), EQUAL (14), EXACT (14). Bonus squares on the board can increase these scores.
151 of the 330 words use 5 different letters, which makes them better Wordle guesses because each letter gives you new information.