5 Letter Words Starting with W

There are 573 of them. The everyday ones include WHICH, WOULD, WHERE, WORLD and WHILE.

573 in total, and 83 of them are on the Wordle answer list.

WALES, WASTE and WHALE narrow this list fastest. WALES leaves at most 66 words in the worst case.

162 of them, including WORKS, WORDS, WANTS, WEEKS and WALLS.

Yes. WHICH, WOULD and WHERE all sit on the Wordle answer list, so the pattern is worth playing for rather than ruling out.

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

Yes. Someone who sends a telegram. It is not on the Wordle answer list, so keep it for Scrabble.

WHICH. 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. WYVER and WYTES are among them. Only a smaller set sits on the answer list, and those are the ones marked in green.

WARTY, WAXEN and WEEDY. 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.