530 five letter words end in N. A big group, spread almost evenly across four different vowel-plus-N endings.
530 words end in N, and unlike most letters here, no single opening dominates. ON-, IN-, AN-, and EN- are all within a few words of each other.
That spread makes N genuinely tricky to narrow down blind. You need the vowel before you can guess with confidence.
Out of 2,315 real Wordle answers, 130 end in N, 5.6%.
Of the 530 words ending in N, 130 are real answers, a 24.5% hit rate. Comfortably above average.
ACORN. BEGIN. CROWN. GRAIN. LUMEN. PREEN. SEMEN. TALON.
All common, all real Wordle answers, spread evenly across ON-, IN-, AN- and EN-.
ZAZEN tops the list at 23 points, a term for seated Zen meditation. ZYGON follows at 18, a biology term for part of a chromosome.
HAZAN, the cantor who leads prayer in a synagogue, comes in at 17. All valid, all the kind of word a word solver 5 letters wide is built to find.
ON- edges out the rest at 119 words, but IN- (113), AN- (112) and EN- (106) are all close behind.
Genuinely the most evenly split group on this page. No dominant pattern to lean on.
The four vowel-plus-N endings are closer to each other in count than any other letter's top four.
All 530 words sit below. Real Wordle answers are marked.
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All 530 words sit below. Real Wordle answers are marked. Use the word finder above if you know another letter too, or scroll the full 5 letter words list.
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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.