Complete list of 18 five-letter words that start with X, all accepted by Wordle.
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).
There are 18 five-letter words that start with X. 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 X are E (7), Y (7), O (2), R (1) and V (1). The biggest groups are words beginning with XE-, XY- and XO-, so if you know the second letter you can jump straight to that group in the list above.
None of these 18 words are on the original Wordle answer list, so a green X in the first square is very unlikely in Wordle. They are still accepted as guesses, which can be useful for testing letters.
To combine this with your other green, yellow and grey tiles, use the Wordle Helper.
Using standard Scrabble tile values (before bonus squares), the highest-scoring well-known words here are XEROX (19 points), XYLEM (17 points), XVIII (15 points), XENON (12 points), XENIA (12 points). X itself is worth 8 points. To search by the exact tiles on your rack, use the word finder or the anagram solver.