There are 1,522 five letter words ending in E. Second biggest ending group in the language.
It's also the best one to land in Wordle. More answers finish with E than any other letter, and that gap isn't close.
Below you'll find the full list, the ones that actually show up as answers, and the scoring picks for Scrabble.
1,522 words end in E. Only S beats that count, and S is mostly plurals.
E is different. These are real, everyday words. BRAVE. STONE. SMILE.
Which is exactly why Wordle leans on them so hard. Got a green E in the last slot? You're in good shape, and this 5 letter words list narrows fast from here.
One note on the count. Other sites quote anything from 1,093 to 1,800 for this same list.
Nobody is lying. Each site runs a different dictionary, so each draws its own line on what counts as a word.
Ours comes from an open-source English dictionary. Every number on this page is computed from it.
Out of 2,315 real Wordle answers, 424 end in E. That's 18.3%, the highest of any letter.
Now the number that actually helps you. Of our 1,522 5 letter words ending in E, 424 are real answers. A 27.9% hit rate, so roughly one in four. Compare that to words ending in S, where it drops under 1%.
Real wordle answers ending in E include BRAVE, DANCE, HOUSE, JUDGE, MAIZE, QUAKE, and TABLE.
They spread right across the alphabet. Which is part of what makes this ending so hard to pin down alone.
Most players miss this. S looks safest because 3,959 words end in it.
But Wordle's editors leave plurals out. Only 36 S-ending words have ever been answers.
Editor Tracy Bennett has confirmed plurals aren't used. Our 1.6% figure also matches the 1.7% reported independently by fiveletterwords.io.
E has no such problem.
Nothing about an E ending makes a word a plural, so the whole group stays in play. That's the real reason 5 letter words that end in E beat every other ending when you're guessing.
Look at the top opening words. SLATE. CRANE. TRACE. ARISE. Every one ends in E.
No accident. E is the most common final letter, so an opener ending in E tests the likeliest slot straight away. It's the simplest reason 5 letter words for wordle so often finish this way.
BRAVE. STONE. SMILE. HOUSE. PLANE. GRAPE. SHINE.
Words you already know, and words Wordle actually uses. No dictionary needed, no odd spellings, and every one of them sits inside the answer pool.
MEZZE tops the list at 25 points, a Middle Eastern spread of small dishes. Two Z tiles do the work.
For words you'll actually draw, try QUAKE at 18, BLAZE at 16, or PRIZE at 16.
Any scrabble word finder ranks them for you, and a words with friends cheat scores them slightly differently. Run a word solver 5 letters wide and the same handful keeps coming back.
Knowing two end letters cuts the list in half. Here's how E-ending words break down by the letter just before it.
SE and LE tie at 151 words each. Then RE with 118, TE with 116, NE with 109. After that: IE 99, GE 94, VE 90, DE 77, ME 72.
Fourth letter locked? Jump straight to that group. Much faster than scrolling every result in the 5 letter word finder.
There's a reason so many English words end in E. It's called the silent E rule, or magic E. A final E stays quiet, but it changes the vowel before it, making that vowel say its own name.
Compare RID and RIDE. PLAN and PLANE. THEM and THEME.
Same letters plus an E, completely different sound. That's why 5 letter words in english lean so heavily on this ending. It's a spelling tool, not just a letter.
Scan 5 letter words in english a to z and only S makes a bigger group.
All 1,522 words sit below. Real Wordle answers are marked, so you can tell the likely picks from guess-only words.
Use the word finder 5 letters at a time if you know another letter. Or just scroll this 5 letter words list.
All 1,522 words sit below. Real Wordle answers are marked, so you can tell the likely picks from guess-only words. Use the word finder 5 letters at a time if you know another letter. Or just scroll this 5 letter words list.
Want a different pattern? Try 5 letter words starting with E, or 5 letter words containing E anywhere in the word.
The biggest two-letter endings inside this group have their own lists too, including SE, LE, and RE. Or head back to the main 5 letter word finder and filter by whatever letters you already know.
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Data computed from a 12,974-word open-source dictionary and the 2,315-word Wordle answer list. Last updated August 26, 2026.