5-letter words with W as the first letter
There are 400 five-letter words with W as the first letter in Unscrambly's open word list; the highest scoring is WHIZZ at 29 points. A is the most common second letter among them (109), and the average score is 11 points.
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Pinning a letter to an exact slot is the core of Wordle strategy: a green W in the first position leaves these 400 words as candidates. Every word below is exactly five letters with W in slot 1, shown with its Scrabble score, and examples include WHIZZ, WOOZY, WAQFS, WACKY and WALTZ. Feed the letters you already know into the Wordle helper to narrow a puzzle with a W in slot 1 further.
For Wordle, WASTE 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 400 words.
5-letter words with W as the first letter in numbers
- Words
- 400
- Highest scoring
- WHIZZ 29 pts
- Average score
- 11.0 pts
- With a definition
- 229 (57%)
- A109
- E58
- H64
- I75
- O53
- R28
- U7
- Y6
Highest-scoring 5-letter words with w as the first letter
5-letter words with W as the first letter (400)
These 300 of the 400 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 W as the first letter?
Unscrambly's list has 400 five-letter words with W in the first position, 3.2% of all five-letter words.
How do I use this list for Wordle?
If your first tile turned green as W, these 400 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 WASTE.
What is the highest scoring 5 letter word with W as the first letter?
WHIZZ scores 29 points in Scrabble. Next come WAQFS (20), WOOZY (20) and WACKY (17). The average is 11 points.