3,788 words

5-Letter Words Containing R

All verified five-letter words where R appears in at least one position. This containing-letter group covers 30.4% of the full dataset and is most useful when you know R is present but not fixed. Use Word Finder to apply more filters.

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Yellow tile in Wordle? In Wordle, a yellow tile on R means the letter is in the answer but not in the position you guessed. All 3788 words below contain R somewhere. Use the Wordle Solver to filter by known and eliminated letters.
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All 3,788 Five-Letter Words Containing R

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Share of dataset
30.4%

3,788 of 12,478 verified words

Five unique letters
72.0%

2,726 words without repeats

Average vowel count
1.8

Most common bucket: 2 vowels

Average Scrabble score
8.2

Calculated from standard English tile values

How To Narrow Words That Contain R

Containing-letter pages are the bridge between a yellow tile and a fully specified pattern. R appears somewhere in 3,788 verified five-letter words, with the most common opening letters at R (610), S (335), and C (270) and the most common endings at S (920), R (656), and E (466).

From here, the useful next step is to split the pool by position. If the letter is ruled out from one or two slots, the related position pages and Wordle Solver cut the set down much faster than browsing the full alphabetical list.

Example Words From This List

FLORY

united states chemist who developed methods for studying long-chain molecules (1910-1985)

1 vowels | No repeats | Scrabble 11
KRAIT

brightly colored venomous but nonaggressive snake of southeastern asia and malay peninsula

2 vowels | No repeats | Scrabble 9
MACRO

a single computer instruction that results in a series of instructions in machine language

2 vowels | No repeats | Scrabble 9
METRE

the basic unit of length adopted under the systeme international d'unites (approximately 1

2 vowels | Has repeat | Scrabble 7
SEROW

short-horned dark-coated goat antelope of mountain areas of southern and southeastern asia

2 vowels | No repeats | Scrabble 8
WORDS

the smallest unit of language that has a particular meaning and can be expressed by itself

1 vowels | No repeats | Scrabble 9
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