64 five letter words end in W. A small group, and a decent one for Wordle relative to its size.
64 words end in W. OW- and EW- cover most of them, ARROW, BELOW, SCREW, THREW.
W is a letter English almost never doubles or pairs unusually at the end, it just rides a vowel straight into the final slot.
No plural trap either, a W ending can't form a simple English plural.
Out of 2,315 real Wordle answers, 17 end in W, 0.7%.
Of the 64 words ending in W, 17 are real answers, a 26.6% hit rate. Genuinely solid for such a small group.
AGLOW. ARROW. BELOW. ELBOW. MACAW. SCREW. SINEW. THREW.
All common, all real Wordle answers, most riding an OW or EW ending.
OXBOW and SQUAW tie at the top with 17 points each. YAKOW follows at 15, a hybrid of yak and cattle.
A scrabble word finder will pull these up the moment you've got a W and an X or Q nearby.
OW- leads at 28 words, EW- follows at 21. Then AW- with 14, and a single outlier UW- with just 1.
OW- and EW- together cover close to three-quarters of the whole group.
OW and EW together cover close to three-quarters of every W-ending word.
All 64 words sit below. Real Wordle answers are marked.
Use the word finder above if you know another letter too.
All 64 words sit below. Real Wordle answers are marked. Use the word finder above if you know another letter too.
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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.