673 five letter words end in R. A big group, and ER- alone accounts for close to two-thirds of it.
673 words end in R, and ER- covers 443 of them, an enormous share for a single opening.
Agent nouns mostly, someone who does something. BAKER, MINER, POKER, SAFER, the -ER pattern is one of the most productive endings in English.
No plural trap either, an R ending can't form a simple plural.
Out of 2,315 real Wordle answers, 212 end in R, 9.2%.
Of the 673 words ending in R, 212 are real answers, a 31.5% hit rate. Comfortably above average, and one of the biggest raw answer counts on this page.
CLEAR. FEMUR. HYPER. MINER. POKER. SAFER. TAPIR. ABHOR.
All common, all real Wordle answers, most riding the -ER pattern.
FAQIR, HAZER and VEZIR all tie at the top with 17 points each. FAQIR is a variant spelling of fakir, a Muslim or Hindu ascetic.
A scrabble word finder will surface all three the moment you've got a rare letter and an R in your rack.
ER- dominates completely at 443 words, close to two-thirds of the entire group. AR- is a distant second at 101, then OR- with 63, IR- with 26.
Only C's -IC pattern leans harder on a single two-letter ending than R does here.
ER- alone covers close to two-thirds of every R-ending word, the second most concentrated pattern on this site, behind only C's -IC.
All 673 words sit below. Real Wordle answers are marked.
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All 673 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.