All 1,736 five-letter English words that contain S, grouped by first letter, with the position stats, past Wordle answers, and opening guesses that make the pattern usable mid-game.
1,736 matching words 437 past Wordle answers 32.5% repeat a letter
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Quick answer
1,736 five-letter words contain S. 437 of them (22.4% of the 1,953-puzzle Wordle archive) have already been used as answers, most recently RESET on 2026-10-22. SOARE is the strongest opening guess in the list.
Pattern statistics
What this 1,736-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 S usually falls
Letter(s)
Words
Share of this list
Position 1
486
24.5%
Position 2
21
1.1%
Position 3
143
7.2%
Position 4
149
7.5%
Position 5
1,188
59.8%
Position counts are based on every occurrence of S across 1,736 matching words (a word can count more than once if S repeats).
Most common endings
Letter(s)
Words
Share of this list
ES
265
15.3%
TS
168
9.7%
LS
100
5.8%
KS
99
5.7%
DS
82
4.7%
PS
74
4.3%
The two-letter endings that show up most often in words containing S.
Most common letters in this list
Letter(s)
Words
Share of this list
S
1,736
100%
E
739
42.6%
A
609
35.1%
T
460
26.5%
O
446
25.7%
R
434
25%
L
431
24.8%
I
405
23.3%
How many of the 1,736 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
0 distinct vowels
5
0.3%
1 distinct vowel
998
57.5%
2 distinct vowels
703
40.5%
3 distinct vowels
30
1.7%
Words grouped by how many distinct vowels they hold. Wordle answers containing S follow the same broad shape, so a guess with two different vowels usually survives longer than one with three.
Repeated letters in this list
565 of these words (32.5%) use the same letter twice — ALIAS, AREAS, BASES, BASIS, BOOKS, CALLS. 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 S
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
3LASER
Its letters appear in 39% of all five-letter words in our corpus
4EARLS
Its letters appear in 39% of all five-letter words in our corpus
5REALS
Its letters appear in 39% of all five-letter words in our corpus
6RATES
Its letters appear in 38.9% of all five-letter words in our corpus
437 of the 1,953 Wordle answers published since puzzle #0 contain S — 22.4% of the archive, starting with SISSY on 2021-06-21. The most recent twelve are below.
Answer
Puzzle
Date
RESET
#1951
2026-10-22
WREST
#1949
2026-10-20
STINK
#1948
2026-10-19
SHADY
#1945
2026-10-16
PSYCH
#1943
2026-10-14
STREW
#1937
2026-10-08
SHACK
#1933
2026-10-04
MESSY
#1923
2026-09-24
STOKE
#1921
2026-09-22
SHONE
#1919
2026-09-20
SNOWY
#1917
2026-09-18
WISPY
#1915
2026-09-16
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 S
Counts, answer history, and guess quality for this exact pattern.
How many five-letter words contain S?+
Our generated corpus holds 1,736 five-letter English words that contain S. 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 S been used as Wordle answers?+
Yes. 437 of the 1,953 Wordle answers published so far contain S, which is 22.4% of the archive. The most recent was RESET (puzzle #1951, 2026-10-22).
What is the best Wordle guess that contains S?+
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 S often repeat a letter?+
565 of these 1,736 words (32.5%) repeat at least one letter, for example ALIAS, AREAS, BASES, BASIS. 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.