5 Letter Words Starting With A

How to find a five-letter word that starts with an A

Looking for 5 letter words that start with A to solve a Wordle? The finder above already has A in the first green box; add your other clues.

A real example from our word list: the answer is ALPHA, and all you know is that it starts with A, which leaves 112 common words. Open with ALONE, the guess that splits this set most evenly.

Guess 1: ALONE A and L are green, and the rest are grey. That leaves 6 possible answers: album, alarm, alpha, altar, alias and alibi.

Guess 2: ALARM A and L are green and A is yellow, and the rest are grey. That leaves 2 possible answers: alpha and alias.

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

What comes after A?

In common words that start with A, the second letter is most often L (19%), N (9%) and R (9%). Only 6% have a vowel second, so A is usually followed by another consonant.

About 5 letter words starting with A

Most A words put a consonant straight after the A: about, after, apple, actor. A second group begins with a short "a-" that once meant "on" or "in", which is how we got aloud, ahead, awake and aside. Several common A words end in -GE or -SE, like agree, abuse and arise, which is worth remembering when you have A and E but can't place the E. In Wordle, an A at the start is less common than an A in the second or third spot, so if A comes back yellow in your first guess, try it in the middle before moving it to the front. For Scrabble, A words are cheap on their own, but axiom and azure show how one high-value letter changes the score.

A ranks sixth out of 26 as a first letter for 5 letter words.

Word families that start with A

The biggest group of A words starts with AL: alarm, album, alert, alien, alive, allow, alone and along. AN and AR come next, with angel, anger, angle, arena, argue and arrow. Many A words end in -LE, like angle and ankle, or in -ER, like anger and alter. That gives you a quick plan when A is green in the first spot: test L and R in the second spot, and E near the end. A is also the second most common vowel overall, so it's worth checking whether your answer uses it twice, as alpha, arena and award do. For the full picture of where A sits in other words, see 5 letter words with A, or use the 5 letter word finder with your own clues.

Vowels in 5 letter words starting with A

A is the most common vowel here, appearing in 100% of the common words, followed by E (46%) and O (29%). The least common is U (13%).

4% have just one vowel, like apply, angry, abyss and angst. At the other end, about, again and above have three or more.

Nouns, verbs and adjectives

By main meaning (WordNet), there are 58 nouns, 24 verbs, 16 adjectives and 11 adverbs.

Nouns include album, award and agent. Verbs include allow, agree and avoid. Adjectives include alone, aware and alive. Adverbs include about, after and again.

Best Wordle guesses that start with A

Top guesses, with the average number of the 112 common words each leaves: ALONE (6.7), ALTER (7.3), ALIEN (7.6), ALERT (8.3) and ADORE (9.3).

39% repeat a letter, and 17 have a double letter, like added, allow, agree and apply.

Highest-scoring 5 letter words starting with A in Scrabble

Top common words: amaze (16), azure (14) and axiom (14). All valid words: abuzz (25), azygy (21) and avyze (20). 23 words reach 15 points or more.