5 letter words with E in position 3

There are 909 five-letter words in English with E in position 3. 259 of them appear on the curated Wordle answer list, so they are the most likely candidates if you hit this pattern in today's puzzle. E is one of the most common letters in English, so almost every Wordle answer contains it somewhere.

Common words (259)

Words from the curated Wordle answer list — the most likely candidates for today’s solution.

fleas
smell
paean
leery
feeds
eject
geeky
preys
speak
wheat
field
shell
guest
cress
credo
stems
views
poets
their
chefs
event
trend
reeve
clefs
peeps
ocean
chess
duels
tress
miens
tweed
sheep
theme
obeys
sneer
kneel
wreck
tweak
query
piece
cheek
meets
dream
whelp
weeks
glens
keels
beech
flees
flesh
suede
sheet
tiers
cheer
heels
fiend
great
smelt
cleft
crest
wheel
sleep
clean
cleat
steep
tweet
plead
deems
bless
elect
users
opens
theft
cream
cheat
geese
bleed
knees
sleet
piers
amend
poems
greys
teeth
leeks
fiefs
wield
stern
adept
feels
sperm
bleat
freer
opera
steam
sheaf
bleep
items
weeds
green
every
seeds
teens
pleas
exert
fresh
knead
sheer
liens
speck
beefy
heeds
knell
preen
sweep
creak
dregs
erect
spent
sweat
weeps
blent
clerk
fuels
queen
seems
spelt
needy
sheds
steak
queer
crepe
inept
steel
skein
greet
keeps
knelt
speed
glean
tread
queue
guess
ideal
freed
blend
greed
quell
peers
treat
inert
reefs
steed
spend
stead
areas
swell
treed
creme
wrest
clews
bread
wreak
reels
fiery
seedy
quest
liege
spear
chest
fleck
smear
ovens
scent
avert
yield
alert
stews
sheik
crept
freak
steer
dwell
scene
reeks
clear
frets
diets
gleam
sleek
dwelt
fleet
where
elegy
weedy
shear
break
there
these
reeds

Showing the first 200 of 259.

Other valid words (650)

Five-letter words from the broader English dictionary the game accepts as guesses, but which rarely show up as answers.

abeam
abear
abele
abers
abets
acerb
acers
aceta
adeem
afear
agene
agers
aheap
ahent
aiery
akees
akela
akene
aleck
alecs
alefs
aleft
aleph
alews
alexa
aleye
ameba
ameer
amene
amens
ament
anear
anele
anent
apeak
apeek
apers
apert
apery
aread
areae
areal
arear
areca
aredd
arede
arefy
areic
arene
arepa
arere
arete
arets
arett
asean
avels
avens
avery
aweel
aweto
axels
ayelp
baels
beedi
beefs
beeps
beers
beery
bhels
bield
biers
blear
blebs
blech
blees
blert
blets
bleys
boeps
boets
boeuf
bream
brede
breds
breem
breer
brees
breid
breis
breme
brens
brent
brere
brers
brett
breve
brews
breys
buena
caeca
caese
cheep
cheka
chela
chelp
chemo
chems
cheng
chere
chert
cheth
chevy
chews
chewy
ciels
cleck
cleek
cleep
clegs
cleik
clems
clepe
clept
cleve
coeds
creds
creel
crees
crems
crena
creps
crepy
crete
crewe
ctene
czech
deedy
deely
deens
deere
deers
deets
deeve
deevs
diebs
diego
diels
diene
doeks
doest
doeth
drear
dreck
dreed
dreer
drees
dreks
drent
drere
drest
dreys
duett
dweeb
dyers
edema
egers
egest
elemi
elena
emeer
emend
emerg
emery
emeus
enews
epees
erevs
etens
evens
evert
evets
ewers
ewest
exeat
execs
exeem
exeme
eyers
faena
faery
feebs
feens
feers
feese
feeze
fgets
fient
fiere
fiers
fiest

Showing the first 200 of 650.

Most likely letters by position

For each slot, the letters that appear most often in these words. Color intensity reflects frequency.

Pos. 1

s20%

a8%

c7%

t7%

p6%

Pos. 2

r17%

e15%

l12%

h11%

i6%

Pos. 3

e100%

Pos. 4

e12%

r11%

n10%

a10%

l8%

Pos. 5

s33%

e11%

t11%

d6%

y6%

Most frequent letters overall

Useful for picking your next guess — frequent letters give you more information per try.

Vowels per word

How many vowels (A, E, I, O, U) these five-letter words contain.

1 vowel

207 (23%)

2 vowels

544 (60%)

3 vowels

155 (17%)

4 vowels

3 (0%)