5-letter words with B as the first letter
There are 886 five-letter words with B as the first letter in Unscrambly's open word list; the highest scoring are BIZZY and BUZZY, tied at 28 points. O is the most common second letter among them (169), and the average score is 9.5 points.
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Pinning a letter to an exact slot is the core of Wordle strategy: a green B in the first position leaves these 886 words as candidates. Every word below is exactly five letters with B in slot 1, shown with its Scrabble score, and examples include BIZZY, BUZZY, BIZZO, BOOZY and BWAZI. Feed the letters you already know into the Wordle helper to narrow a puzzle with a B in slot 1 further.
For Wordle, BLASE is a strong guess from this list: of the familiar words with five different letters, it uses the letters found in the most of these 886 words.
5-letter words with B as the first letter in numbers
- Words
- 886
- Highest scoring
- BIZZY 28 pts
- Average score
- 9.5 pts
- With a definition
- 494 (56%)
- A161
- E126
- H7
- I91
- L91
- O169
- R113
- U116
- W2
- Y10
Highest-scoring 5-letter words with b as the first letter
5-letter words with B as the first letter (886)
These 300 of the 886 are a spread sample: the 50 highest scoring first, then words taken in turn from every second letter; within each, words with a dictionary definition come first. The solver above searches all of them for your tiles, and the free JSON API has the full word lists.
Frequently asked questions
How many 5 letter words have B as the first letter?
Unscrambly's list has 886 five-letter words with B in the first position, 7% of all five-letter words.
How do I use this list for Wordle?
If your first tile turned green as B, these 886 words are your candidates. Cross off any word that uses a letter you have already ruled out, and prefer a guess that tests new letters, such as BLASE.
What is the highest scoring 5 letter word with B as the first letter?
BIZZY and BUZZY tie at 28 points in Scrabble. Next come BIZZO (25), BOOZY (19) and BWAZI (19). The average is 9.5 points.