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Last updated 2026-08-31. Curated by the Wordineer team.
All the lists are created from the same core dictionary of 10,000 standard English words, plus the 275 or so words that are legal in Scrabble and appear in normal usage. Every word on every length or pattern list comes from this same core. There's no 'junk' in these lists. Every word can be played in Scrabble or used by students learning vocabulary.
The "Easy", "Medium" and "Hard" word labels were added by hand rather than by frequency. They roughly correspond to "Something a fluent adult can recognize and read without slowing down", and "Something a strong player knows but that lots of casual players won't".
As mentioned previously, before Wordle became a game in late 2021, searching for 5-letter words garnered very little interest. Six months later, however, searching for "5-letter words" became one of the most popular vocabulary-related search terms on the internet. The game sparked interest in a part of the English language that had been there all along.
As for why we're looking at word length in particular, three-letter words are by far the most common, both by count and by how often they're used. There are over a thousand 3-letter words in English, and players who are strong at Scrabble generally have all of these memorized. They're common in many instances because they are the words that fit in small spaces on the Scrabble board and because they are worth so much in terms of their letter values.
Many of the 3-letter words are rare, and even experienced Scrabble players make a point of memorizing them for exactly that reason. Words of length 4, 5, and 6 are also common in terms of the number of words, but are less frequently used in play. This is because there are fewer situations in which they will fit on the board. Seven-letter words, on the other hand, are relatively rare, but are very useful because of the 50-point bonus for using all the tiles in your rack to form a word.
A list and a generator are two very different things, like reading a map versus asking for directions. Even though the same words will be shown underneath, studying a list is a very different experience from using a generator when stuck at a table. Reach for a generator when you are stuck, and study your list the week before the big game.
Many players think they can study the 3-letter words for "a few hours" and be ready for a tournament, but most only know the commonly used words (cat, dog, the, etc.). There are many uncommon words (adz, feh, ulu, zap, qoph, etc.) that most players have never even heard of, and these words are frequently used in casual games to surprise opponents and earn points.
Browse the "starts with S / C / T" pages. That's about 40% of all the Wordle answers. The 5-letter lists, complete with vowel and letter frequency filters, make great practice openers.
The 3-letter Q, Z, and X pages are some of the highest-ROI words on the site. Spending 10 minutes to commit these to memory will repay you in spades in your first game.
Length-sorted lists can also serve as great spelling homework and using the difficulty tags you can match up the list to the grade level of your students. For example the 4th- and 5th-grade spelling bee pages are pre-filtered for you.
A 3-letter Q list. If you only memorize one Q list, make it this one, since 3-letter words come up constantly and the list is short enough to fit on an index card. They all fit on one index card. As you add the words with Q (QI, QOPH, QAT, QADI, QOPHS) to your study list, you will see that QOPH, QADI, and QOPHS are the ones that club players know in addition to QI and QAT.
I'm using the Official Scrabble Players Dictionary here. I used the ~8,900 or so words found in The Official Scrabble Players Dictionary. The answer pool for Wordle, the daily 5-letter word-guessing game, consisted of ~2,300 words (i.e., all possible answers). The input "guess" pool was ~10,000 words (i.e., all of the words that Wordle allows as input). These lists skew toward those two Wordle pools rather than toward a comprehensive list of all words in a larger dictionary.
Both QI and ZA are found in the TWL (the official North American tournament word list) and SOWPODS (the International equivalent). QI refers to Chinese philosophy and life energy, while ZA is casual slang for pizza, as listed in dictionaries. For a new Scrabble player, learning QI and ZA will get the most bang for their buck, since Q and Z each score 10 points and neither requires a U (which is very hard to place given the other vowels).
While these Scrabble word lists are not the OFFICIAL Scrabble dictionary, they were created from both the TWL word list used for North American Scrabble tournaments and the SOWPODS word list used for international Scrabble tournaments. Thus, there are handfuls of words that are found in one of the two lists and not the other. Also, while most of the casual words found here are acceptable in formal play, there are a few that are not found in either the TWL or SOWPODS lists. For formal Scrabble tournament play, check with the tournament director about what word list that tournament is using. For all other uses (Wordle, crosswords, casual Scrabble games at home), these lists and this word generator should be quite sufficient.
Use the list to review words or look something up. Use the generator to get a random word you wouldn't have expected to see. If you find yourself scrolling down a long list of words looking for a random one, then you probably want to use the random word generator. It's much faster for generating a random word.