737 words start with A, a solid middle-of-the-pack count. This word finder has every one of them, ready to filter by position or pattern.
A is the single most common letter in English overall, roughly 8% of everything you read. Line that up against this list, though, and A barely cracks the middle of the alphabet for 5-letter openers. Being common doesn't mean being a common starter.
141 of the 2,315 real Wordle answers start with A, 6.1%. Middling, same as the letter itself. A wordle solver still rates it a fair opener, since so many A-words are everyday vocabulary rather than obscure filler.
ABACK, ACUTE, ALIEN, ANKLE, ATOLL. Ordinary words, the kind that show up first in any search for common A openers.
A scrabble word finder puts ABUZZ at 25 points, the two Z's doing nearly all the work. AZYGY and AVYZE follow at 21 and 20. None of these are words you'd drop into conversation, but they're valid, and that's exactly what a words with friends cheat is for.
A is a fine opener for exploring, 737 words behind it means a guess here still teaches you something.
AL-, AR-, AB-, and AM- cover a huge share of the list between them. If your first guess starts with A and misses, narrowing to one of those four openings cuts the field fast.
On the board, A is a 1-point tile, so it rarely carries a play by itself. A scrabble word finder is more useful here for spotting where A completes a bigger word than for scoring A on its own.
ABUZZ, 25 points. Two Z's at 10 apiece do essentially all the work, the rest of the word is filler by comparison. Feed a rack with a couple of Z's into any unscrambler and this is the shape it should surface.
737 total. 141 real Wordle answers, 6.1% of them. A leans on AL-, AR-, AB-, and AM- openings, in that order, and there's no AA- pattern worth mentioning, unlike most other letters' top two.
All 737, right below. Use the finder above if you already know a few letters, or scroll if you're just browsing.
Want a different angle? Try words ending in E, or ones containing a letter you already know, same finder, different filter. AL, AR, and AB each have their own list 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.