5 Letter Words Starting with E

There are 518 of them. The everyday ones include EVERY, EARLY, EVENT, ENJOY and EARTH.

518 in total, and 72 of them are on the Wordle answer list.

ENTER, ENTRY and EMAIL narrow this list fastest. ENTER leaves at most 132 words in the worst case.

96 of them, including ETHOS, EDGES, EXAMS, EUROS and EMACS.

Yes. EVERY, EARLY and EVENT all sit on the Wordle answer list, so the pattern is worth playing for rather than ruling out.

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

Yes. Eliminate from the body. It is not on the Wordle answer list, so keep it for Scrabble.

EVERY. 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. EYRIR and EYRER are among them. Only a smaller set sits on the answer list, and those are the ones marked in green.

ECLAT, EDIFY and EGRET. 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.