The Complete Wordle Words List
Every Wordle guess and every Wordle answer is drawn from the same pool: five-letter words from the standard Scrabble TWL dictionary. Our database holds 0 such words, and the grid above shows the top 0 ranked by Scrabble point value. Because rare letters (Q, Z, X, J, K) carry the highest face values, the words at the top of the list tend to be the unusual ones — useful to recognise when you encounter them, even if you would never open with them.
Key Definitions
- Wordle word — any five-letter entry from the TWL dictionary; Wordle accepts all of these as valid guesses and may select any of them as the daily answer.
- Scrabble points — the score a word earns when each letter's face value (printed on the tile) is summed; Q and Z are worth 10, X and J are worth 8, K is worth 5.
- TWL dictionary — the Tournament Word List, the official Scrabble word list used in North American play and the source for this site's five-letter pool.
- Letter pattern — a positional constraint such as "starts with C" or "ends in ER"; our pattern pages let you browse by any such filter.
- Opening guess — the first word a player submits, ideally chosen to maximise information about the answer rather than to score points.
How to Read the Top-0 Grid
The grid is sorted by Scrabble points, descending. Click any tile to jump to that word's full unscramble page, where you will find every anagram, sub-anagram, and letter-pattern breakdown. Use the A–Z navigation above to browse all five-letter words that start with a specific letter — handy when you have cracked Wordle's first character and want to study the candidate pool that remains.
Using This List to Win Wordle
- Open with a vowel-rich word such as ADIEU, AUDIO, or RAISE to lock in vowel positions fast.
- Once you know the starting letter, browse the corresponding A–Z list to mentally prune candidates.
- Feed your green, yellow, and gray clues into our Wordle Solver for instant filtering against the full dictionary.
- Playing four boards at once? Try the Quordle Solver for parallel candidate sets.
Why Five Letters?
Five is the sweet spot for a daily puzzle: long enough to require real vocabulary, short enough to solve in a handful of guesses, and narrow enough that the candidate pool stays manageable. A four-letter pool would make every guess feel lucky; a seven-letter pool would push most guesses into pure exploration. Five letters also happens to be the length at which common English words are most evenly distributed across starting letters, which is why the A–Z nav above stays balanced and useful rather than clustering on a handful of popular initials.