5 Letter Words Starting With T

How to find a five-letter word that starts with a T

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

A real example from our word list: the answer is THICK, and all you know is that it starts with T, which leaves 119 common words. Open with TREAT, the guess that splits this set most evenly.

Guess 1: TREAT T is green, and the rest are grey. That leaves 17 possible answers.

Guess 2: TUNIC T is green and I and C are yellow, and the rest are grey. That leaves 1 possible answer.

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

What comes after T?

In common words that start with T, the second letter is most often R (25%), H (17%) and O (17%). 52% have a vowel second, so if your consonant guesses keep missing, try A, E, I, O or U in the second spot.

About 5 letter words starting with T

TH and TR are the most common openings for T words: think, three, those, train, truck, trust. TW is less common but worth remembering, as in twice, twist and tweet. Outside those pairs, T is usually followed by a vowel, as in table, tiger and total. Many T words also end in T, so watch for repeats: trust, tacit, taunt. In Wordle, if T is green first, testing H and R in the second spot is the quickest way to split the list.

T ranks fifth out of 26 as a first letter for 5 letter words.

Word families that start with T

TR is the largest family of T words: trace, track, trade, trail, trash, treat, trend, trial, tribe, trick, truly and truth. TH comes next: thank, theft, theme, thick, thief, thing, third, throw and thumb. With a vowel second there are taste, teach, teeth, title, today, topic, touch, tower and toxic. T is often repeated, as in taste, tight, toast and treat, so if T is green first and you still have a T unaccounted for, try it at the end. See 5 letter words ending in T for those patterns, or use the 5 letter words finder to filter further.

Vowels in 5 letter words starting with T

E is the most common vowel here, appearing in 47% of the common words, followed by A (34%) and I (30%). The least common is U (14%).

33% have just one vowel, like think, thing, thank and third. At the other end, tease and taboo have three or more.

Nouns, verbs and adjectives

By main meaning (WordNet), there are 81 nouns, 19 adjectives, 13 verbs and 3 adverbs.

Nouns include three, thing and today. Adjectives include taken, tried and tough. Verbs include think, thank and train. Adverbs include there, truly and twice.

Best Wordle guesses that start with T

Top guesses, with the average number of the 119 common words each leaves: THEIR (7.6), TRACE (8.3), TONER (8.3), TRAIN (8.5) and TRADE (8.6).

39% repeat a letter, and 16 have a double letter, like three, teeth, tweet and tooth.

Highest-scoring 5 letter words starting with T in Scrabble

Top common words: thick (14), toxic (14) and tacky (14). All valid words: tizzy (26), tazza (23) and tazze (23). 11 words reach 15 points or more.