5 Letter Words Containing G

How to find a five-letter word with a G in Wordle

Looking for 5 letter words that contain G to solve a Wordle? The finder above already has G in "Must contain". If you know its spot, use a green box instead.

A real example from our word list: the answer is GRAIN, and all you know is that it has a G in it, which leaves 204 common words. Open with RANGE, the guess that splits this set most evenly.

Guess 1: RANGE R, A, N and G are yellow, and the rest are grey. That leaves 6 possible answers: grand, grant, angry, grain, organ and groan.

Guess 2: GRAND G, R and A are green and N is yellow, and the rest are grey. That leaves 1 possible answer.

Guess 3: GRAIN All five letters are green. Solved in 3.

Where G appears in the word

In common words with G, the letter sits most often in the first spot (35%) and least often in the second (3%). If you've had G come back yellow, try it in the first or third spot next.

10 of them use G twice, like going, aging, gauge and gorge.

The letters that appear most often alongside G are E (in 45%), A (in 40%) and R (in 37%).

About 5 letter words with G

G is common at the end of 5 letter words, mostly as -NG (thing, young, bring), and as -GHT in the middle and end (night, light, eight). At the start, it's often followed by R, as in great and green. If G comes back yellow in Wordle, testing it fourth, as part of NG or GH, is often the quickest way to place it.

G ranks 17 out of 26 as a letter for 5 letter words.

Where G fits in a word

G sits in three main places: first, as in great and group; third, as in eight and light; and fourth or fifth in -NG endings, as in thing and young. In the middle, G often sits next to H, in -GHT words. Words with two G's are rare; gauge and gorge are among the few. A yellow G in Wordle is often best tried third with H after it, or fourth before an N-G ending. For G at the start, see 5 letter words starting with G. For G at the end, see 5 letter words ending in G.

Vowels in 5 letter words with G

E is the most common vowel here, appearing in 45% of the common words, followed by A (40%) and I (34%). The least common is U (20%).

27% have just one vowel, like right, thing, might and night. At the other end, again, agree and image have three or more.

A few have no A, E, I, O or U at all, because Y does the vowel's job: pygmy and glyph.

Nouns, verbs and adjectives

By main meaning (WordNet), there are 135 nouns, 33 verbs, 30 adjectives and 3 adverbs.

Nouns include being, going and thing. Verbs include bring, fight and guess. Adjectives include great, young and given. Adverbs include right, again and along.

Best Wordle guesses with G

Top guesses, with the average number of the 204 common words each leaves: RANGE (8.5), REIGN (8.7), ARGUE (9.0), LARGE (9.3) and GLARE (9.4).

28% repeat a letter, and 26 have a double letter, like guess, green, agree and glass.

Highest-scoring 5 letter words with G in Scrabble

Top common words: glaze (15), graze (15) and judge (14). All valid words: azygy (21), ghazi (18) and gauzy (18). 40 words reach 15 points or more.