Word lists
The solver on the front page answers the question “what can I make from these letters right now?” These pages answer a different one: what is worth knowing before you sit down. Every list here is drawn from the same ENABLE dictionary the solver uses.
Two of them repay memorizing outright. The two-letter words are a small enough set to learn in an afternoon and they decide more close games than any other list. The Q-without-U words are shorter still — 29 entries — and each one turns a tile that was about to cost you a turn into a play.
Know the two-letter words already? Take the quiz — twenty pairs, half of them real, and it tells you which ones you are actually sure of.
By length
- All 2-letter words — The 96 two-letter words, and why they are the first thing to memorize.
- All 3-letter words — 972 words, grouped so the useful ones are findable rather than buried.
- All 4-letter words — The length that clears a cluttered rack without opening the board up.
- All 5-letter words — Every five-letter word, including which openers narrow a guessing game fastest.
By letter
J, Q, X and Z carry the most points and cause the most trouble. These lists stop at five letters, because a long word using one of them is a nice thing to find and a terrible thing to wait for.
- Q words without U — All 29 of them — the list that turns a stuck Q into points.
- Short words with Z — Z is 10 points and appears in more short words than most players expect.
- Short words with X — X is the easiest of the high-value letters to place well.
- Short words with J — The awkward one. J has the fewest short words of any 8-point tile.
A note on dictionaries
ENABLE is the public-domain list most English word games are built from, but no two games use it unmodified. Some add proper nouns, some drop obscure entries, and app-based games revise their lists between updates. Treat anything here as very likely accepted rather than guaranteed — and if a game rejects a word you found here, that is a difference in their dictionary, not an error in the list.