Browse 5-Letter Words by Starting Letter

Most Common 5-Letter Words Starting With F

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

All 646 5-Letter Words Starting With F (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 FA (113)

Starting with FE (88)

Starting with FI (100)

Starting with FJ (2)

Starting with FL (105)

Starting with FN (1)

Starting with FO (84)

Starting with FR (74)

Starting with FU (73)

Starting with FY (6)

About 5-Letter Words Starting With F

646
Total words
136
Wordle answer words
477
No repeated letters
4 pts
Scrabble value of F

There are 646 five-letter words that start with F. 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 F are A (113), L (105), I (100), E (88) and O (84). The biggest groups are words beginning with FA-, FL- and FI-, 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 F in the first square, the answer is one of these 646 words. 136 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: FIRST, FOUND, FINAL, FRONT, FIELD, FIGHT.

A strong next guess from this list is FLARE: 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 FUZZY (29 points), FRITZ (17 points), FROZE (17 points), FORZA (17 points), FIXED (16 points). F itself is worth 4 points. 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 646 five-letter words that start with F in our list, and all of them are accepted by Wordle. The most common are FIRST, FOUND, FINAL, FRONT, FIELD, FIGHT, FORCE, FUNNY.
136 words on this page are on the original Wordle answer list, for example FIRST, FOUND, FINAL, FRONT, FIELD, FIGHT, FORCE, FUNNY. The rest are accepted as guesses but are less common words. A good guess to narrow things down is FLARE.
With standard Scrabble tile values: FUZZY (29), FRITZ (17), FROZE (17), FORZA (17), FIXED (16). Bonus squares on the board can increase these scores.
477 of the 646 words use 5 different letters, which makes them better Wordle guesses because each letter gives you new information.