5 letter words that start with F range from everyday ones such as faith, flame and fruit to oddities such as fjord, fugue and fytte. Wordle accepts 640 of them as guesses, though far fewer have ever been the answer. Knowing which of these words are common and which are obscure decides your next guess.
5 Letter Words That Start With F
Your keyboard will accept all 640 of these words. FA and FL are the two openings that matter most, since a third of all 5 letter words that start with F begin one way or the other. Only nine words take FJ, FN or FY. If you already know a letter in the middle, the 5 letter words finder narrows the set faster than scrolling.
5 Letter Words That Start With FA
FA opens more of these words than any other second letter. You will need faith, false, fancy and fault far more than the rest.
- Fabbo
- Fabby
- Fable
- Faced
- Facer
- Faces
- Facet
- Facey
- Facia
- Facie
- Facta
- Facto
- Facts
- Facty
- Faddy
- Faded
- Fader
- Fades
- Fadge
- Fados
- Faena
- Faery
- Faffs
- Faffy
- Faiks
- Fails
- Faine
- Fains
- Faint
- Faire
- Fairs
- Fairy
- Faith
- Faked
- Faker
- Fakes
- Fakey
- Fakie
- Fakir
- Falaj
- Fales
- Falls
- False
- Falsy
- Famed
- Fames
- Fanal
- Fancy
- Fands
- Fanes
- Fanga
- Fango
- Fangs
- Fanks
- Fanny
- Fanon
- Fanos
- Fanum
- Faqir
- Farad
- Farce
- Farci
- Farcy
- Fards
- Fared
- Farer
- Fares
- Farle
- Farls
- Farms
- Faros
- Farro
- Farse
- Farts
- Fasci
- Fasti
- Fasts
- Fatal
- Fated
- Fates
- Fatly
- Fatso
- Fatty
- Fatwa
- Fauch
- Faugh
- Fauld
- Fault
- Fauna
- Fauns
- Faurd
- Faute
- Fauts
- Fauve
- Favas
- Favel
- Faver
- Faves
- Favor
- Favus
- Fawns
- Fawny
- Faxed
- Faxes
- Fayed
- Fayer
- Fayne
- Fayre
- Fazed
- Fazes
5 Letter Words That Start With FE
Only a handful of the FE words appear in everyday writing: fence, fever, fetch, feral and femur. The rest belong to dictionaries and Scrabble racks.
- Feals
- Feard
- Feare
- Fears
- Feart
- Fease
- Feast
- Feats
- Feaze
- Fecal
- Feces
- Fecht
- Fecit
- Fecks
- Fedai
- Fedex
- Feebs
- Feeds
- Feels
- Feely
- Feens
- Feers
- Feese
- Feeze
- Fehme
- Feign
- Feint
- Feist
- Felid
- Felix
- Fella
- Fells
- Felly
- Felon
- Felts
- Felty
- Femal
- Femes
- Femic
- Femme
- Femmy
- Femur
- Fence
- Fends
- Fendy
- Fenis
- Fenks
- Fenny
- Fents
- Feods
- Feoff
- Feral
- Ferer
- Feres
- Feria
- Ferly
- Fermi
- Ferms
- Ferns
- Ferny
- Ferox
- Ferry
- Fesse
- Festa
- Fests
- Festy
- Fetal
- Fetas
- Fetch
- Feted
- Fetes
- Fetid
- Fetor
- Fetta
- Fetts
- Fetus
- Fetwa
- Feuar
- Feuds
- Feued
- Fever
- Fewer
- Feyed
- Feyer
- Feyly
- Fezes
- Fezzy
5 Letter Words That Start With FI
Field, fight, first and final are the FI words you will meet in ordinary reading. Fibre is the British spelling of fiber, and both are legal guesses.
- Fiars
- Fiats
- Fiber
- Fibre
- Fibro
- Fices
- Fiche
- Fichu
- Ficin
- Ficos
- Ficta
- Ficus
- Fides
- Fidge
- Fidos
- Fidus
- Fiefs
- Field
- Fiend
- Fient
- Fiere
- Fieri
- Fiers
- Fiery
- Fiest
- Fifed
- Fifer
- Fifes
- Fifis
- Fifth
- Fifty
- Figgy
- Fight
- Figos
- Fiked
- Fikes
- Filar
- Filch
- Filed
- Filer
- Files
- Filet
- Filii
- Filks
- Fille
- Fillo
- Fills
- Filly
- Filmi
- Films
- Filmy
- Filon
- Filos
- Filth
- Filum
- Final
- Finca
- Finch
- Finds
- Fined
- Finer
- Fines
- Finis
- Finks
- Finny
- Finos
- Fiord
- Fiqhs
- Fique
- Fired
- Firer
- Fires
- Firie
- Firks
- Firma
- Firms
- Firni
- Firns
- Firry
- First
- Firth
- Fiscs
- Fisho
- Fishy
- Fisks
- Fists
- Fisty
- Fitch
- Fitly
- Fitna
- Fitte
- Fitts
- Fiver
- Fives
- Fixed
- Fixer
- Fixes
- Fixie
- Fixit
- Fizzy
5 Letter Words That Start With FL
FL has produced more Wordle answers than any other F opening, 36 in all. Flame, flash, float and floor are the ones worth guessing first.
- Flabs
- Flack
- Flaff
- Flags
- Flail
- Flair
- Flake
- Flaks
- Flaky
- Flame
- Flamm
- Flams
- Flamy
- Flane
- Flank
- Flans
- Flaps
- Flare
- Flary
- Flash
- Flask
- Flats
- Flava
- Flawn
- Flaws
- Flawy
- Flaxy
- Flays
- Fleam
- Fleas
- Fleck
- Fleek
- Fleer
- Flees
- Fleet
- Flegs
- Fleme
- Flesh
- Fleur
- Flews
- Flexi
- Flexo
- Fleys
- Flick
- Flics
- Flied
- Flier
- Flies
- Flimp
- Flims
- Fling
- Flint
- Flips
- Flirs
- Flirt
- Flisk
- Flite
- Flits
- Flitt
- Float
- Flobs
- Flock
- Flocs
- Floes
- Flogs
- Flong
- Flood
- Floor
- Flops
- Flora
- Flore
- Flors
- Flory
- Flosh
- Floss
- Flota
- Flote
- Flour
- Flout
- Flown
- Flows
- Flowy
- Flubs
- Flued
- Flues
- Fluey
- Fluff
- Fluid
- Fluke
- Fluky
- Flume
- Flump
- Flung
- Flunk
- Fluor
- Flurr
- Flush
- Flute
- Fluty
- Fluyt
- Flyby
- Flyer
- Flyin
- Flype
- Flyte
5 Letter Words That Start With FO
Focus, force, found and forty are the FO words in daily use. Players misread forgo more than any other word here, since it takes no E.
- Foals
- Foams
- Foamy
- Focal
- Focus
- Foehn
- Fogey
- Foggy
- Fogie
- Fogle
- Fogos
- Fogou
- Fohns
- Foids
- Foils
- Foins
- Foist
- Folds
- Foley
- Folia
- Folic
- Folie
- Folio
- Folks
- Folky
- Folly
- Fomes
- Fonda
- Fonds
- Fondu
- Fones
- Fonio
- Fonly
- Fonts
- Foods
- Foody
- Fools
- Foots
- Footy
- Foram
- Foray
- Forbs
- Forby
- Force
- Fordo
- Fords
- Forel
- Fores
- Forex
- Forge
- Forgo
- Forks
- Forky
- Forma
- Forme
- Forms
- Forte
- Forth
- Forts
- Forty
- Forum
- Forza
- Forze
- Fossa
- Fosse
- Fouat
- Fouds
- Fouer
- Fouet
- Foule
- Fouls
- Found
- Fount
- Fours
- Fouth
- Fovea
- Fowls
- Fowth
- Foxed
- Foxes
- Foxie
- Foyer
- Foyle
- Foyne
5 Letter Words That Start With FR
Frame, fresh, front and fruit lead the FR words, and 21 in this group have been Wordle answers.
- Frabs
- Frack
- Fract
- Frags
- Frail
- Fraim
- Frais
- Frame
- Franc
- Frank
- Frape
- Fraps
- Frass
- Frate
- Frati
- Frats
- Fraud
- Fraus
- Frays
- Freak
- Freed
- Freer
- Frees
- Freet
- Freit
- Fremd
- Frena
- Freon
- Frere
- Fresh
- Frets
- Friar
- Fribs
- Fried
- Frier
- Fries
- Frill
- Frise
- Frisk
- Frist
- Frita
- Frite
- Frith
- Frits
- Fritt
- Fritz
- Frize
- Frizz
- Frock
- Froes
- Frogs
- Fromm
- Frond
- Frons
- Front
- Froom
- Frore
- Frorn
- Frory
- Frosh
- Frost
- Froth
- Frown
- Frows
- Frowy
- Froyo
- Froze
- Frugs
- Fruit
- Frump
- Frush
- Frust
- Fryer
5 Letter Words That Start With FU
You will recognise funny, fully, fudge and fungi among the FU words. Fuzzy scores 29 points in Scrabble, higher than any other word that starts with F.
- Fubar
- Fubby
- Fubsy
- Fucus
- Fuddy
- Fudge
- Fudgy
- Fuels
- Fuero
- Fuffs
- Fuffy
- Fugal
- Fuggy
- Fugie
- Fugio
- Fugis
- Fugle
- Fugly
- Fugue
- Fugus
- Fujis
- Fulla
- Fulls
- Fully
- Fulth
- Fulwa
- Fumed
- Fumer
- Fumes
- Fumet
- Funda
- Fundi
- Fundo
- Funds
- Fundy
- Fungi
- Fungo
- Fungs
- Funic
- Funis
- Funks
- Funky
- Funny
- Funsy
- Funts
- Fural
- Furan
- Furca
- Furls
- Furol
- Furor
- Furos
- Furrs
- Furry
- Furth
- Furze
- Furzy
- Fused
- Fusee
- Fusel
- Fuses
- Fusil
- Fusks
- Fussy
- Fusts
- Fusty
- Futon
- Fuzed
- Fuzee
- Fuzes
- Fuzil
- Fuzzy
5 Letter Words That Start With FJ FN and FY
Nine words take a rare second letter after F. Fjord is the only one in everyday use, and it scores 16 points in Scrabble.
- Fjeld
- Fjord
- Fnarr
- Fyces
- Fyked
- Fykes
- Fyles
- Fyrds
- Fytte
5 Letter Words That Start With F With Meanings
Most 5 letter words that start with F need no explanation. These are the ones common enough to be worth learning and unfamiliar enough to cost you a guess.
- Fable: a short story that teaches a lesson, with animals as the characters.
- Facet: one flat cut surface on a gemstone, and by extension one part of a larger question.
- Farce: a comedy built on ridiculous situations, or any event too absurd to take seriously.
- Farro: an ancient wheat grain eaten in soups and salads.
- Fauna: the animals of a particular place or period, paired with flora for the plants.
- Fecal: relating to solid waste from the body.
- Feign: to pretend to feel or have something you do not.
- Feint: a movement made to mislead an opponent before the real attack.
- Femur: the thigh bone, the longest bone in the human body.
- Feral: wild after having once been tame or domesticated.
- Fetal: relating to an unborn baby, as in the fetal position.
- Fetid: smelling strongly and unpleasantly stale.
- Ficus: a fig tree, grown indoors as a houseplant across most of Europe and North America.
- Filch: to steal something small and of little worth.
- Filet: a boneless cut of meat or fish, spelled fillet in British English.
- Filly: a young female horse under four years old.
- Filth: dirt in quantity, or writing and speech people find offensive.
- Fjord: a long narrow arm of the sea between steep cliffs, cut by a glacier.
- Flack: a press agent who promotes someone in the media.
- Flail: to wave the arms and legs about with no control.
- Flair: a natural talent for doing something well.
- Flout: to break a rule openly and without shame.
- Flume: a built water channel, once used to float logs down to a mill.
- Fluke: a lucky result nobody planned for.
- Foist: to force something unwanted onto someone else.
- Folio: a large sheet folded once to make two leaves, and the book printed that way.
- Foray: a short venture into unfamiliar territory or an unfamiliar activity.
- Forgo: to go without something by choice.
- Forte: the one thing a person does better than anything else.
- Frisk: to search someone by patting the outside of their clothing.
- Frond: the large divided leaf of a fern or a palm.
- Frump: a person dressed in a dull and unfashionable way.
- Fugue: a musical work in which one theme returns in part after part.
- Furor: a public outburst of anger or excitement.
- Futon: a padded mattress that folds out flat into a bed.
5 Letter Words That Start With F for Wordle
Wordle accepts all 640 as guesses, but its answers are chosen from a much smaller pool. Once you know the first letter is F, only the words below are worth a turn.
Flare, frame, feast, faint and forge work best as openers, since each one puts two vowels on the board alongside a common consonant such as L, N, R, S or T. Fabbo, fyrds and fnarr are legal plays, yet none has ever been correct, so a turn spent on one buys you nothing.
- Fable
- Facet
- Faint
- Fairy
- Faith
- False
- Fancy
- Fanny
- Farce
- Fatal
- Fatty
- Fault
- Fauna
- Favor
- Feast
- Fecal
- Feign
- Fella
- Felon
- Femme
- Femur
- Fence
- Feral
- Ferry
- Fetal
- Fetch
- Fetid
- Fetus
- Fever
- Fewer
- Fiber
- Fibre
- Ficus
- Field
- Fiend
- Fiery
- Fifth
- Fifty
- Fight
- Filer
- Filet
- Filly
- Filmy
- Filth
- Final
- Finch
- Finer
- First
- Fishy
- Fixer
- Fizzy
- Fjord
- Flack
- Flail
- Flair
- Flake
- Flaky
- Flame
- Flank
- Flare
- Flash
- Flask
- Fleck
- Fleet
- Flesh
- Flick
- Flier
- Fling
- Flint
- Flirt
- Float
- Flock
- Flood
- Floor
- Flora
- Floss
- Flour
- Flout
- Flown
- Fluff
- Fluid
- Fluke
- Flume
- Flung
- Flunk
- Flush
- Flute
- Flyer
- Foamy
- Focal
- Focus
- Foggy
- Foist
- Folio
- Folly
- Foray
- Force
- Forge
- Forgo
- Forte
- Forth
- Forty
- Forum
- Found
- Foyer
- Frail
- Frame
- Frank
- Fraud
- Freak
- Freed
- Freer
- Fresh
- Friar
- Fried
- Frill
- Frisk
- Fritz
- Frock
- Frond
- Front
- Frost
- Froth
- Frown
- Froze
- Fruit
- Fudge
- Fugue
- Fully
- Fungi
- Funky
- Funny
- Furor
- Furry
- Fussy
- Fuzzy
5 Letter Words That Start With F By Ending Letter
Once you know the last letter, the field narrows fast. Almost a third of these words end in S, and nearly all of those are plurals. Wordle has never chosen a plain plural, so only fetus, ficus, floss and focus remain in play when the answer ends in S.
| Ending letter | How many | Common examples |
|---|---|---|
| S | 197 | Focus, floss, fetus, ficus |
| Y | 81 | Fairy, fancy, fatty, fifty |
| E | 75 | Fable, false, farce, fence |
| D | 44 | Field, fiend, fjord, fried |
| R | 43 | Favor, femur, fever, fewer |
| T | 36 | Facet, faint, fault, feast |
| A | 30 | Fauna, flora, fella |
| H | 24 | Faith, fetch, fifth, filth |
| L | 19 | Fatal, feral, fetal, focal |
| O | 18 | Folio, forgo |
| N | 14 | Feign, felon, flown, frown |
| K | 14 | Flack, flank, flask, fleck |
| I | 13 | Fungi |
| M | 9 | Forum |
| X | 4 | Forex, ferox |
| C | 4 | Franc, folic, funic |
| F | 3 | Fluff |
| U | 3 | Fichu, fondu, fogou |
| P | 3 | Frump, flump, flimp |
| G | 3 | Fling, flung |
| Z | 2 | Fritz, frizz |
| J | 1 | Falaj |
Eight endings leave four candidates or fewer. When your last letter is X, C, F, U, P, G, Z or J, one more guess will normally settle the puzzle.
Highest Scoring 5 Letter Words That Start With F
F is worth four points on its own, which puts every F word ahead of most openings before the other tiles are counted. Each score below is face value on plain squares, with no premium tiles.
| Word | Scrabble | Words With Friends | Worth knowing because |
|---|---|---|---|
| Fuzzy | 29 | 29 | The highest scoring F word in either game |
| Fizzy | 29 | 28 | Same Scrabble score with easier letters |
| Frizz | 26 | 26 | Both Z tiles in one word |
| Flaxy | 18 | 18 | Turns a stranded X into a full word |
| Fazed | 18 | 18 | The most common word above 17 points |
| Froze | 17 | 17 | Everyday spelling with a Z inside |
| Fritz | 17 | 17 | Works when the Z lands last |
| Fjord | 16 | 18 | The only J word most players will recognise |
| Fixed | 16 | 16 | Reachable from an ordinary rack |
| Funky | 15 | 16 | The K on a comfortable stem |
Fuzzy and fizzy both score 29 on plain squares. Play either across a double word score and the same rack is worth more than 58.
5 Letter Words That Start With FL and FR
More 5 letter words that start with F take FL and FR than any other blend. The two endings differ: flick, flock, flank and flunk all finish on a hard consonant, while frame, froze, froth and fresh finish on a vowel sound or TH.
Both blends are worth learning first, since neither spelling has a silent letter in it. What you see is what you say.
- FL, the everyday ones: flame, flash, float, floor, flour, flute, fleet, flick, flock, flood.
- FR, the everyday ones: frame, fresh, front, fruit, frost, frown, froze, fried, frank, fraud.
5 Letter Words That Start With F With Double Letters
Repeated letters cost most players a Wordle turn. Fluff, floor, funny and fully all use a letter twice, so a green tile in one position does not rule out a second copy elsewhere.
- BB: Fabbo, Fabby, Fubby
- DD: Faddy, Fuddy
- EE: Feebs, Feeds, Feels, Feely, Feens, Feers, Feese, Feeze, Fleek, Fleer, Flees, Fleet, Freed, Freer, Frees, Freet, Fusee, Fuzee
- FF: Faffs, Faffy, Feoff, Flaff, Fluff, Fuffs, Fuffy
- GG: Figgy, Foggy, Fuggy
- II: Filii
- LL: Falls, Fella, Fells, Felly, Fille, Fillo, Fills, Filly, Folly, Frill, Fulla, Fulls, Fully
- MM: Femme, Femmy, Flamm, Fromm
- NN: Fanny, Fenny, Finny, Funny
- OO: Flood, Floor, Foods, Foody, Fools, Foots, Footy, Froom
- RR: Farro, Ferry, Firry, Flurr, Fnarr, Furrs, Furry
- SS: Fesse, Floss, Fossa, Fosse, Frass, Fussy
- TT: Fatty, Fetta, Fetts, Fitte, Fitts, Flitt, Fritt, Fytte
- ZZ: Fezzy, Fizzy, Frizz, Fuzzy
More than a third of these words double an E or an L, which makes those two the first repeat to test.
FAQs
640 5 letter words that start with F are accepted in Wordle, Scrabble and Words With Friends. Far fewer belong to everyday English, since dialect spellings, plurals and imported words such as farad, fatwa and fjeld all count.
136 of them have appeared as Wordle solutions, among them fable, faith, flame, fresh, front and fruit. Every other F word is a legal guess that has never been correct, so a turn spent on one shows you which letters fit and nothing more.
75 of these words end in E. The everyday ones are fable, false, farce, fence, flake, flame, flare, fluke, flume, flute, force, forge, forte, frame, froze, fudge and fugue.
Fuzzy and fizzy tie at 29 points each, both counted on plain squares. Frizz follows at 26. All three rely on the two Z tiles, which are worth ten points apiece in Scrabble.
The common FL words are flame, flash, float, floor, flour, flute, fleet, flick, flock and flood. 36 of them have been Wordle answers, more than any other F opening has produced.
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