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5 letter words starting with F

Every five-letter word in the list that begins with F — 429 of them, printed in full below. Filter by the letters you have confirmed or ruled out to cut it down.

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Five-letter words beginning with F, by the numbers

There are 429 of them here, which makes F the ninth busiest opening letter at this length. The full list is on this page rather than behind a click, in alphabetical order, with the highest-scoring words called out separately below.

The most common second letter is A, which follows F in 79 of them. 143 of them end in S, mostly plurals and third-person verbs.

On standard Scrabble tiles the most expensive are FIZZY (29), FUZZY (29), FRIZZ (26). Tile values are a fact about the game rather than about English: a word scores well because its letters are rare, which is exactly why the top of that list is nobody's idea of a good opening guess.

What F does at the front of a word

F is one of the few letters that doubles at the end of a word, in OFF and CLIFF and STUFF, and one of the few whose plural changes the spelling underneath it: leaf becomes leaves.

321 of them use five different letters (FABLE, FACED, FACER and FACES). 55 of them contain a doubled letter (FADDY, FAGGY, FALLS and FANNY). The no-repeat words are the ones worth guessing early, because each one tests five letters instead of four.

19 of them carry three or more vowels (FACIA, FAENA, FAUNA and FAUVE). Those are the ones to reach for when the letters you have left are mostly vowels. One of them manages without A, E, I, O or U (FLYBY).

Working through an F word in a puzzle

With 429 candidates, the useful move is elimination rather than inspiration. Put the letters you have confirmed into the pattern box in their positions — F____ is already assumed on this page — and put everything you have ruled out into the excluded box. What survives is usually a list you can read in one look.

A first letter is worth less than it feels. Knowing a word starts with F removes most of the dictionary but leaves these 429; knowing the third letter typically cuts harder, because middle positions vary more than opening ones. If you have a choice about which position to test next, test the middle.

Alphabetically the list here runs from FABLE to FYTTE. Every word on it comes from the same public-domain list the search box queries, so nothing printed here is a word the tool will then refuse to find. If one you expect is missing it is missing from the list itself, which is a curated subset of ENABLE and says so plainly rather than quietly.

Highest scoring F words at five letters

Standard Scrabble tile values. A word scores well when its letters are rare, which is why the top of this table and the top of a puzzle-strategy list have almost nothing in common.

WordPoints
FIZZY29
FUZZY29
FRIZZ26
FURZY20
FAZED18
FLAXY18
FUZED18
FAQIR17
FAZES17
FEAZE17

How five-letter F words end

The last letter, counted across all 429 of them. This is the fastest filter to apply when a crossing letter has given you the ending.

Ends inWordsExamples
S143FACES, FACTS, FADES
Y53FADDY, FAERY, FAGGY
E43FABLE, FADGE, FALSE
D39FACED, FADED, FAKED
R35FACER, FADER, FAKER
T24FACET, FAGOT, FAINT
H17FAITH, FAUGH, FETCH
A13FACIA, FAENA, FANGA

Common questions

How many 5 letter words start with F?

429 in the list used here, which is every five-letter F word in the public-domain ENABLE dictionary apart from a short blocklist of slurs. Sites using a different dictionary will quote a different number.

Which 5 letter word starting with F scores highest?

FIZZY, at 29 points on standard Scrabble tiles, ahead of FUZZY at 29. Words With Friends values several letters differently, so the order there is not the same.

Are there 5 letter words starting with F with no repeated letters?

321 of the 429, including FABLE, FACED, FACER, FACES and FACET. These are the ones that make a good opening guess, because every letter tested is a different letter.

Every word, grouped by how long it is

The complete list at each length. Three letters is a page you memorise; nine is a page you search.

Five-letter words by opening letter

The complete list for each letter, with how many there are. S is a page you scroll; X is a page you read.

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