5 Letter Words Starting with RA

There are 216 of them. The everyday ones include RANGE, RADIO, RAISE, RAPID and RATIO.

216 in total, and 23 of them are on the Wordle answer list.

RAISE, RATES and RACES narrow this list fastest. RAISE leaves at most 52 words in the worst case.

54 of them, including RATES, RACES, RANKS, RACKS and RAIDS.

Yes. RANGE, RADIO and RAISE all sit on the Wordle answer list, so the pattern is worth playing for rather than ruling out.

Yes. RALLY and RADAR are two of them. Crossing off a letter after one grey square is the quickest way to miss an answer like these.

Yes. East Indian cereal grass whose seed yield a somewhat bitter flour, a staple in the Orient. It is not on the Wordle answer list, so keep it for Scrabble.

RANGE. 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.

Yes. Every word on this list is a legal guess, including the ones that look wrong. RAZOO and RAZET are among them. Only a smaller set sits on the answer list, and those are the ones marked in green.