183 words end in EN. ALIEN, ASHEN, COVEN lead them, and 33 can still be the answer.
33 can be the answer and 14 are everyday words. Where those two overlap is where to start.
Best First Guesses
Start with one of these. All three are among the 183 words below, and the number beside each is how many would still be left in the worst case.
- ALIEN: takes 183 down to 89 at worst. It is on the answer list.
- LADEN: down to 97. It is on the answer list.
- HAVEN: down to 99. It is on the answer list.
What These Words Have in Common
If you need a second letter to test, A (47), O (46) and R (36) appear here more than any others. Everyday English covers 14 of these 183 words. The remainder are valid plays that rarely reach conversation, so guess from the letters above rather than from the bottom of the list.
Best 5 Letter Words Ending in EN
The strongest picks, with answer-list words first.
- ALIEN
- ASHEN
- COVEN
- DOZEN
- EATEN
- GIVEN
- GREEN
- HAVEN
- HYMEN
- LADEN
- LIKEN
- LINEN
- LUMEN
- OAKEN
- OFTEN
- OLDEN
- PREEN
- QUEEN
- RAMEN
- RAVEN
- RIPEN
- RISEN
- SEVEN
- SHEEN
- SIREN
- TAKEN
- TOKEN
- VIXEN
- WAXEN
- WIDEN
- WOKEN
- WOMEN
- WOVEN
- ALLEN
- COHEN
5 Letter Words Ending in EN by Starting Letter
5 Letter Words Starting with A and Ending in EN
- ALIEN
- ASHEN
- ALLEN
- ACHEN
- ADMEN
- ALDEN
- ALPEN
- AMEEN
- ARPEN
- ASPEN
- ATREN
- AUGEN
- AXMEN
Related: 5 Letter Words Starting with A
5 Letter Words Starting with B and Ending in EN
- BAKEN
- BASEN
- BEDEN
- BEHEN
- BEPEN
- BIZEN
- BODEN
- BOXEN
- BYSEN
Related: 5 Letter Words Starting with B
5 Letter Words Starting with C and Ending in EN
- COVEN
- COHEN
- CHIEN
- CODEN
- COLEN
- COPEN
- COSEN
- COZEN
- CREEN
Related: 5 Letter Words Starting with C
5 Letter Words Starting with D and Ending in EN
- DOZEN
- DAREN
- DAVEN
- DAWEN
- DEBEN
- DIZEN
- DOVEN
- DOYEN
Related: 5 Letter Words Starting with D
5 Letter Words Starting with E and Ending in EN
- EATEN
- EETEN
- EEVEN
- ELLEN
- ELMEN
- ELVEN
- EMDEN
- EMLEN
- ERVEN
- EYREN
Related: 5 Letter Words Starting with E
5 Letter Words Starting with H and Ending in EN
- HAVEN
- HYMEN
- HAZEN
- HEBEN
- HELEN
- HEMEN
- HENEN
- HIREN
- HIZEN
- HOGEN
- HOSEN
- HOTEN
- HOVEN
- HSIEN
Related: 5 Letter Words Starting with H
5 Letter Words Starting with L and Ending in EN
- LADEN
- LIKEN
- LINEN
- LUMEN
- LAGEN
- LATEN
- LEBEN
- LEDEN
- LEVEN
- LIFEN
- LIMEN
- LIVEN
- LODEN
- LOREN
- LOSEN
- LOWEN
- LOZEN
- LYKEN
Related: 5 Letter Words Starting with L
5 Letter Words Starting with O and Ending in EN
- OAKEN
- OFTEN
- OLDEN
- OATEN
- ONSEN
- OUTEN
- OWSEN
- OXMEN
Related: 5 Letter Words Starting with O
5 Letter Words Starting with R and Ending in EN
- RAMEN
- RAVEN
- RIPEN
- RISEN
- RASEN
- REMEN
- REPEN
- REXEN
- RHEEN
- RIDEN
- RIVEN
- ROUEN
- ROVEN
- ROWEN
- RUMEN
Related: 5 Letter Words Starting with R
5 Letter Words Starting with S and Ending in EN
- SEVEN
- SHEEN
- SIREN
- SAFEN
- SAMEN
- SAZEN
- SEMEN
- SEWEN
- SEYEN
- SILEN
- SKEEN
- SOKEN
- SOLEN
- SPEEN
- STEEN
- SUMEN
- SYREN
Related: 5 Letter Words Starting with S
5 Letter Words Starting with W and Ending in EN
- WAXEN
- WIDEN
- WOKEN
- WOMEN
- WOVEN
- WAKEN
- WEREN
- WEZEN
- WHEEN
- WISEN
- WITEN
- WIZEN
- WODEN
- WOXEN
Related: 5 Letter Words Starting with W
5 Letter Words Starting with F, G, I and other letters and Ending in EN
- FADEN
- FRDEN
- FREEN
- GIVEN
- GREEN
- GALEN
- GLEEN
- IMPEN
- INKEN
- KAREN
- KETEN
- KOHEN
- KREEN
- MAVEN
- MIXEN
- MIZEN
- MOTEN
- MOYEN
- NAREN
- NEVEN
- NOMEN
- NUMEN
- PREEN
- PAREN
- PATEN
- PAVEN
- PAYEN
- PHREN
- QUEEN
- TAKEN
- TOKEN
- TAPEN
- TOMEN
- TREEN
- TWEEN
- TYKEN
- UNDEN
- UNKEN
- UNPEN
- UNZEN
- VIXEN
- VIMEN
- YAMEN
- YEMEN
- YEVEN
- YEWEN
- YOVEN
- ZAZEN
Part of: 5 Letter Words Ending in N
Less Familiar Words Here
This page carries a lot of words most players would not define. Reading them once is quicker than meeting them cold in a puzzle.
- LIMEN: The smallest detectable sensation.
- COZEN: Cheat or trick.
- OATEN: Of or related to or derived from oats.
- MIZEN: Fore-and-aft sail set on the mizzenmast.
- OAKEN: Consisting of or made of wood of the oak tree. It is on the answer list.
- PREEN: Clean with one's bill. It is on the answer list.
- DOYEN: A man who is the senior member of a group.
- WAKEN: Stop sleeping.
- ASHEN: Anemic looking from illness or emotion; ; ; ; ; – Mary W. Shelley. It is on the answer list.
- HYMEN: A fold of tissue that partly covers the entrance to the vagina of a virgin. It is on the answer list.
- LIKEN: Consider or describe as similar, equal, or analogous. It is on the answer list.
- LIVEN: Make lively.
- RIPEN: Grow ripe. It is on the answer list.
- OLDEN: Long past. It is on the answer list.
FAQs
Can a Wordle answer end in EN?
Yes. WOMEN, GIVEN and OFTEN all sit on the Wordle answer list, so the pattern is worth playing for rather than ruling out.
Do any of these use the same letter twice?
Yes. GREEN and SEVEN are two of them. Crossing off a letter after one grey square is the quickest way to miss an answer like these.
Is DIZEN really a word?
Yes. Dress up garishly and tastelessly. It is not on the Wordle answer list, so keep it for Scrabble.
Which one has the best chance of just being the answer?
WOMEN. It is the most ordinary word here that the answer list carries, so it is the guess to make when you want to win the round rather than learn from it.
Are all of these accepted as guesses?
Yes. Every word on this list is a legal guess, including the ones that look wrong. YOVEN and YEWEN are among them. Only a smaller set sits on the answer list, and those are the ones marked in green.
Which of these would most players overlook?
ASHEN, HYMEN and LIKEN. All three are on the answer list, and none is a word you would reach for early, so they are worth remembering once the obvious guesses run out.