Name a Five Letter Word A-Z

Try to name a valid five-letter Scrabble word which starts with each letter of the alphabet.

See the series: 4 Letters, 5 Letters, 6 Letters, 7 Letters, 3 to 7 Letters and also 5 Letter Mega A-Z!

Using any valid Scrabble word from the TWL06 word list used in official Scrabble tournaments. More info here. Search the word list here.

After guessing correctly, the 3 most common words are shown.

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Last updated: March 8, 2022

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First submitted	March 8, 2022
Times taken	46,849
Average score	76.9%
Rating	4.89

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	# Possible	Words
A	513	about, after, again + more
B	621	being, began, black + more
C	681	could, child, cried + more
D	470	death, doubt, doing + more
E	198	earth, eight, enter + more
F	441	first, found, force + more
G	433	great, going, given + more
H	349	house, heart, heard + more
I	120	ideas, image, issue + more
J	139	judge, joins, joint + more
K	220	kings, knees, kinds + more
L	416	light, large, least + more
M	460	might, means, miles + more

	# Possible	Words
N	208	never, night, north + more
O	185	other, often, order + more
P	581	place, point, peace + more
Q	56	quite, quiet, quick + more
R	434	right, round, river + more
S	1084	shall, still, small + more
T	567	their, there, these + more
U	123	under, until, usual + more
V	167	voice, visit, value + more
W	303	which, would, where + more
X	13	xenon, xenia, xerox + more
Y	100	young, years, youth + more
Z	56	zebra, zones, zests + more

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Level 84

Mar 9, 2022

Early on I just started using any words that rhymed with "gates". That filled in a BUNCH of letters. Sort of took the pressure off to then go back letter-by-letter. Great quiz.

Level 68

Mar 9, 2022

Yep! First time I played it myself I had lots of "ain" or "ane" (brain, crane, drain) and then suddenly blanked on E :)

It's funny how the brain works sometimes with coming up with words!

Level 77

Mar 9, 2022

I got into a -ight groove. That helped me along quite a bit.

+28

Level 75

Mar 13, 2022

I mainly did plural versions of four-letter singular nouns and it worked very well

Level 48

May 7, 2022

same. for x I used xenon then blanked on O.

Level 91

Jun 23, 2022

i mostly used -ight and -ound

Level 68

Jun 23, 2022

Mine was -out (about, bouts, court, doubt...) I blanked on 'j' though but I ran out of time anyway.

Level 68

Jun 23, 2022

Not strictly "-out", but you could have had "joust" which is close :)

Level 32

Sep 15, 2022

what about the word 'avery' for a?

Level 68

Sep 15, 2022

Proper noun: Wiktionary. And also not accepted by Scrabble, the validator for this quiz.

Level 68

Jun 23, 2022

Hey, I used the word "gates" too! I found it way easy just typing in four letter words with an -s on the end!

Level 68

Jun 23, 2022

Maybe play again but try challenging yourself to complete it without using a plural! :)

Level 68

Dec 15, 2022

I used -ails, which worked really well. Fun quiz this; finally a wordy quiz I seem to be good at!

Level 90

Mar 9, 2022

I just guessed "xylan" without knowing it was an actual word with 18 seconds left.

Level 68

Mar 9, 2022

One of the lucky 13!

Level 34

Mar 10, 2022

Xenon is an element on the periodic table, that's how i got x. Was too slow to get other words though.

Level 67

Jun 23, 2022

I got xenon, and it was definitely my only hope on X.

Level 56

Jun 23, 2022

My back-up was xerox.

Level 75

Mar 10, 2022

I'm so glad "xerox" was added to the dictionary

Level 20

Aug 10, 2022

Ha ha lol. I think I just got xenon which I assume most people did?

Level 53

Nov 14, 2022

I put xysts

Level 20

Aug 10, 2022

Ha ha lol. I just got xenon which I assume most people did?

Level 63

Mar 9, 2022

Grrrr! Aargh! Almost got there, but tough in the time limit! Glad Wordle allows more thinking time. Nice quiz!

Level 68

Mar 9, 2022

Thanks! And yes, I figured time needs to play a factor here, since given enough time almost everybody would get 100%, so had to make it a challenge!

The current stats suggest the time is about right though.

Level 73

Mar 9, 2022

I got most of them with only a little panic, but how was it that the only N-word I could think of (after about 30 seconds panicking) was "nexus"?! I don't even know what it means, but thank goodness it was accepted! Very stressful quiz - 5 stars

Is it possible to complete this using only words ending in 'S' (indeed, only plural nouns or 3rd person singular verbs), by the way? I tried it on my second go through and only missed 'Q' and I think one other that I can't remember - but I thought of a 'Q' one afterwards.

edit: 'X' seems to be the sticking point?

Level 68

Mar 10, 2022

Great! There is one X that works: Xyst (something greek or roman from the looks of Google). And thankfully the plural Xysts is allowed!

Level 73

Mar 11, 2022

And what a scrabble word! My wife and I have extremely competitive scrabble games now and then - you'll be mentioned in our divorce if/when it comes to that ⚖️

Level 68

Mar 11, 2022

Oh yeah my dad just loves to play a Qi, Xi or Qat at random points and everybody else just goes mental because "they're not real words!!".

Always good fun :)

Level 74

Mar 9, 2022

I got 25/26, and almost all of them were just four letter words with an S added to the end. Cool quiz, but I think a version of this with no plurals would make things a lot more challenging (allow more time?).

Level 68

Mar 10, 2022

I could make variations (there could be a lot), but I think it's more interesting / easier for users to impose those restrictions on themselves and to replay the quiz :)

The only variation I was considering making would be removing any word in the 10,000 most common words or something like that.

Level 69

Jun 23, 2022

There are Wordle knock-offs that suffer similar pains to wrangle s-ending plurals. It's a surprising amount of work curating a word bank. Interestingly, Wordle allows for 10,000+ words that can be guessed (many of them plurals), but there are only ~2000 words that work as answers.

Even though this quiz isn't trying to be Wordle or even a knockoff of it (despite the quiz's photo on the featured page), maybe those word lists can help you out down the line.

Level 68

Jun 23, 2022

The problem with using another source like Wordle is that it's harder to be succinct about what constitutes a word. Scrabble is kind of the "standard" for that, even if it includes some weird words.

Level 24

Mar 10, 2022

Alter panic where brain breaks and effects my score cause I don’t know any words with y, I’m quite young too.

See what i did there?

Level 78

Mar 10, 2022

Praise Wordle for helping with this!

Level 76

Mar 12, 2022

100% this!! I can't imagine many other ways that a reasonable human being would have much practice recalling words that have exactly five letters.

Now, an unreasonable human being, on the other hand... that's where I come in

Level 43

Mar 11, 2022

Jesus is displayed as an option by the answers but it doesn't work when typed 🤨

Level 68

Mar 11, 2022

The list I used to determine "most common" words also included proper names as well, which meant some words were invalid for the list used. I've fixed that now.

Level 20

Aug 10, 2022

Yeah that happened to me too…

Level 81

Mar 11, 2022

I think two minutes is too long - cut it to a minute and watch the panic take over.

Level 73

Jun 23, 2022

I actually thought 2 mins was too short! It's still fun, and I did get a good score... but thinking time was really strained.

Level 76

Mar 11, 2022

Yokel saved a 100%.

Level 63

Mar 21, 2022

Only got X because I remember the 4 letter quiz had Xyst, so I added an s. :)

Level 58

Mar 21, 2022

Thank goodness I remembered the element Xenon.

Level 54

Apr 27, 2022

dang this was dificult I got X with 3 seconds left with xenia lol others were pretty easy though.

Level 36

May 20, 2022

In the four-letter quiz, I got most of them by inserting "-eal" after the letter.

In this one, I did the same, except added an S to the end

Level 69

Jun 23, 2022

This got a lot easier when I realized I could just pluralize the word when I only came up with a four letter word.

Level 50

Jun 23, 2022

Honestly, the thumbnail makes no sense

Level 68

Jun 23, 2022

It's from Wordle, which also uses 5-letter words.

Level 50

Jun 23, 2022

But why use a 3 letter word when you can use a 5 letter word so I can use that word

Level 73

Jun 23, 2022

Four of my guesses were #1, none of the others were top 3.

Level 31

Jun 23, 2022

finished with 0:07 left

dont think any of my words were top 3

Level 60

Jun 24, 2022

That was fun, thank you. I wish I would have tried avoiding plural words, for a more fun challenge.

Level 69

Jun 24, 2022

Relatable, plural words carried me through this thing and I barely finished.

Level 19

Jun 26, 2022

once had "Xysts" played against me in scrabble and it's stuck with me haha

Level 62

Jun 26, 2022

Another good twist on this would be to get rid of all plural words. Almost all of my words were a four-letter word and I slapped an s on the end of it

Level 45

Jun 27, 2022

Thank you to random YouTubers who taught me the word xylyl

Level 73

Jun 27, 2022

I completely forgot that plurals existed on my first attempt and got everything except "K" and "Z"

Level 20

Aug 10, 2022

I misclicked the first attempt but still missed 2. The second time round I did it :D yay :D

Level 47

Aug 14, 2022

How did you make this quiz, if you mind me asking? I'm attempting to do something similar (500+ possible answers for one question) but adding type-ins limits me to only 10 per question.

Thanks in advance!

Level ∞

Aug 14, 2022

With import/export you can do more than 500 answers.

Level 65

Feb 7, 2023

Wow, I scored 24/26. I'll take it! Thanks for the quiz!

Level 64

Apr 10, 2023

Just missed X

Level 61

Apr 14, 2023

A harder option would be to exclude plurals.

Level 55

May 26, 2023

I was thinking countries the entire time.

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