All 935 five-letter English words that contain O, grouped by first letter, with the position stats, past Wordle answers, and opening guesses that make the pattern usable mid-game.
935 matching words 485 past Wordle answers 29.9% repeat a letter
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Quick answer
935 five-letter words contain O. 485 of them (24.8% of the 1,953-puzzle Wordle archive) have already been used as answers, most recently ADORN on 2026-10-18. SOARE is the strongest opening guess in the list.
Pattern statistics
What this 935-word list looks like
Every figure below is generated from our own five-letter corpus rather than copied from a generic word list, so the numbers move with the data behind the Wordle solver and the five-letter word finder.
Where O usually falls
Letter(s)
Words
Share of this list
Position 1
59
5.6%
Position 2
516
48.8%
Position 3
324
30.7%
Position 4
121
11.4%
Position 5
37
3.5%
Position counts are based on every occurrence of O across 935 matching words (a word can count more than once if O repeats).
Most common endings
Letter(s)
Words
Share of this list
ED
63
6.7%
ES
60
6.4%
TS
40
4.3%
ER
27
2.9%
LS
27
2.9%
ON
26
2.8%
The two-letter endings that show up most often in words containing O.
Most common letters in this list
Letter(s)
Words
Share of this list
O
935
100%
S
446
47.7%
E
313
33.5%
R
290
31%
L
238
25.5%
T
229
24.5%
N
204
21.8%
D
199
21.3%
How many of the 935 words contain each letter at least once. Useful when you want a follow-up guess that tests letters this pattern rarely rules out.
Vowel spread
Letter(s)
Words
Share of this list
1 distinct vowel
322
34.4%
2 distinct vowels
554
59.3%
3 distinct vowels
57
6.1%
4 distinct vowels
2
0.2%
Words grouped by how many distinct vowels they hold. Wordle answers containing O follow the same broad shape, so a guess with two different vowels usually survives longer than one with three.
Repeated letters in this list
280 of these words (29.9%) use the same letter twice — ALLOW, ANNOY, BOOKS, CLOCK, CODED, COSTS. Wordle colours duplicate letters from left to right, so a gray copy can sit next to a green one in the same row. The double-letter rules guide walks through how to read those rows without discarding a letter you still need.
Best guesses
Strongest opening words containing O
Words from this list with no repeated letters, ranked by how much of the five-letter corpus their letters cover. A higher coverage score means the guess tests more common letters, so more candidates fall away whatever colours come back.
RankWordLetter coverage
1SOARE
Its letters appear in 39.1% of all five-letter words in our corpus
2AROSE
Its letters appear in 39.1% of all five-letter words in our corpus
3ROLES
Its letters appear in 37% of all five-letter words in our corpus
4LOSER
Its letters appear in 37% of all five-letter words in our corpus
5STORE
Its letters appear in 36.9% of all five-letter words in our corpus
6STOLE
Its letters appear in 35.9% of all five-letter words in our corpus
485 of the 1,953 Wordle answers published since puzzle #0 contain O — 24.8% of the archive, starting with FOCAL on 2021-06-25. The most recent twelve are below.
Answer
Puzzle
Date
ADORN
#1947
2026-10-18
YODEL
#1941
2026-10-12
MAJOR
#1938
2026-10-09
PROVE
#1936
2026-10-07
FORTH
#1922
2026-09-23
STOKE
#1921
2026-09-22
SHONE
#1919
2026-09-20
SNOWY
#1917
2026-09-18
FOCUS
#1912
2026-09-13
MOUND
#1899
2026-08-31
BLOOD
#1897
2026-08-29
OLDEN
#1891
2026-08-23
Past answers are shown for pattern context. Wordle has repeated old answers since February 2026, so a word appearing here does not rule it out for a future puzzle.
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Quick answers
Questions about words containing O
Counts, answer history, and guess quality for this exact pattern.
How many five-letter words contain O?+
Our generated corpus holds 935 five-letter English words that contain O. Every one of them is listed on this page, grouped by first letter. The corpus is a broad vocabulary list built for pattern matching, so it is wider than the daily Wordle answer list.
Have words contain O been used as Wordle answers?+
Yes. 485 of the 1,953 Wordle answers published so far contain O, which is 24.8% of the archive. The most recent was ADORN (puzzle #1947, 2026-10-18).
What is the best Wordle guess that contains O?+
SOARE scores highest here: it repeats no letters and its five letters appear in 39.1% of all five-letter words in our corpus, so it tests more of the alphabet in one guess than the alternatives. The full ranked shortlist is in the "best guesses" table above.
Do words contain O often repeat a letter?+
280 of these 935 words (29.9%) repeat at least one letter, for example ALLOW, ANNOY, BOOKS, CLOCK. That matters because Wordle scores duplicate letters from left to right, so a gray tile does not always mean the letter is missing.
How do I narrow this list down with my own clues?+
Open the solver, enter your green, yellow, and gray tiles exactly as the board shows them, and it applies every clue at once, including duplicate-letter counts. This page fixes a single pattern; the solver combines that pattern with everything else you already know.