486 five-letter words start with S. 254 of them (13% of the 1,953-puzzle Wordle archive) have already been used as answers, most recently STINK on 2026-10-19. SOARE is the strongest opening guess in the list.
What this 486-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.
Most common second letter
| Letter(s) | Words | Share of this list |
|---|---|---|
| T | 74 | 15.2% |
| H | 59 | 12.1% |
| P | 52 | 10.7% |
| L | 46 | 9.5% |
| I | 34 | 7% |
| A | 33 | 6.8% |
Among 486 words starting with S, this is how often each letter appears next.
Most common endings
| Letter(s) | Words | Share of this list |
|---|---|---|
| TS | 20 | 4.1% |
| ES | 18 | 3.7% |
| ER | 15 | 3.1% |
| ED | 15 | 3.1% |
| RE | 14 | 2.9% |
| PS | 14 | 2.9% |
The two-letter endings that show up most often in words starting with S.
Most common letters in this list
| Letter(s) | Words | Share of this list |
|---|---|---|
| S | 486 | 100% |
| E | 189 | 38.9% |
| A | 163 | 33.5% |
| T | 145 | 29.8% |
| I | 121 | 24.9% |
| L | 112 | 23% |
| O | 111 | 22.8% |
| R | 106 | 21.8% |
How many of the 486 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 | 1 | 0.2% |
| 1 distinct vowel | 312 | 64.2% |
| 2 distinct vowels | 169 | 34.8% |
| 3 distinct vowels | 4 | 0.8% |
Words grouped by how many distinct vowels they hold. Wordle answers starting with 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
234 of these words (48.1%) use the same letter twice — SALES, SAVES, SCENE, SEEKS, SEEMS, SELLS. 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.