5-letter words with H
There are 1,141 five-letter words with H in our word list. 271 of them are common everyday words, such as OTHER, THEIR, THERE and THESE.
- Words
- 1,141
- Common words
- 271
- Top score
- WHIZZ
- 29 points
H rarely works alone at the end of a word. It mostly appears in pairs such as CH, SH, TH, PH and GH.
Five-letter words are the format of the most popular daily word guessing games. A strong first guess uses five different common letters.
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5-letter words (1,141)
- other
- their
- there
- these
- think
- where
- which
- house
- might
- night
- right
- thing
- those
- three
- while
- white
- ahead
- check
- chief
- child
- china
- death
- earth
- eight
- fight
- hands
- happy
- heard
- heart
- hours
- human
- light
- march
- match
- month
- north
- phone
- shall
- share
- short
- shows
- south
- thank
- third
- truth
- watch
- whole
- whose
- worth
- beach
- birth
- bunch
- catch
- chain
- chair
- cheap
- chest
- chose
- coach
- crash
- depth
- faith
- fifth
- fresh
- harry
- heads
- heavy
- hello
- helps
- henry
- holds
- homes
- honor
- horse
- hotel
- laugh
- lunch
- mouth
- phase
- photo
- reach
- shame
- shape
- shift
- ships
- shirt
- shoes
- shoot
- shots
- shown
- sight
- smith
- teach
- teeth
- theme
- throw
- tight
- touch
- tough
- wheel
- youth
- alpha
- bench
- booth
- brush
- chaos
- charm
- chart
- chase
- cheat
- cheer
- chick
- chile
- chill
- chips
- chuck
- cloth
- couch
- crush
- dutch
- flash
- flesh
- forth
- ghost
- graph
- habit
- harsh
- hated
- hates
- haven
- heels
- hence
- hills
- hired
- holes
- honey
- hoped
- hopes
- hosts
- humor
- hurry
- hurts
- ninth
- ought
- patch
- paths
- pitch
- punch
- ralph
- ranch
- rough
- shade
- shake
- shark
- sharp
- sheep
- sheer
- sheet
- shelf
- shell
- shine
- shock
- shook
- shops
- shore
- shout
- sixth
- smash
- theft
- thick
- threw
- thumb
- tooth
- trash
- welsh
- wheat
- width
- witch
- ashes
- batch
- baths
- birch
- blush
- cache
- chalk
- champ
- chang
- chant
- cheek
- chefs
- chess
- chevy
- chili
- choir
- choke
- chord
- chunk
- clash
- cough
- ditch
- dough
- ethic
- fetch
- finch
- flush
- hairs
- hairy
- halls
- handy
- hangs
- hardy
- hatch
- haunt
- havoc
- hawks
- hazel
- hears
- heath
- hedge
- heirs
- herbs
- hicks
- hides
- highs
- hints
- hobby
- hogan
- holly
- homer
- honda
- hooks
- horns
- humid
- hydro
- hyped
- hyper
- johns
- lynch
- marsh
- maths
- myths
- niche
- notch
- peach
- pinch
- porch
- rehab
- rhino
- rhyme
- shady
- shaft
- shale
- shave
- shawn
- shiny
- shove
- slash
- stash
- sushi
- tenth
- thief
- thigh
- thugs
- torch
- usher
- weigh
- whale
- whats
- wrath
- yacht
- yahoo
- aches
- aloha
- bathe
- beech
- berth
- broth
- butch
- chaps
- chats
- chemo
- chico
- chime
- chino
- chops
- chore
- churn
- chute
- duchy
- epoch
- ether
- ethos
- filth
- firth
- fishy
- fitch
- garth
- hacks
- hades
- haiku
- hails
- hanks
- harem
- harms
- haste
- hasty
- hater
- haute
- heals
- heaps
- heats
- hefty
- heist
- helix
- hells
- herds
- heres
- heron
- hertz
- hikes
- hilly
- hinge
- hippo
- hippy
- hires
- hitch
- hives
- hoard
- hoist
- holed
- honed
- hoods
- hoops
- horde
- hound
- hover
- howdy
- hubby
- hunch
- hunts
- hurst
- husky
- hutch
- hydra
- hymns
- itchy
- jihad
- khaki
- lakhs
- latch
- leach
- leash
- leech
- lymph
- macho
- morph
- moths
- munch
- nacho
- pasha
- perch
- phony
- plush
- pouch
- psych
- pushy
- roach
- sahib
- shack
- shaky
- shalt
- shank
- shard
- shawl
- shear
- sheds
- sheen
- sheik
- shire
- shiva
- shone
- shred
- shrub
- shrug
- shuts
- sighs
- sloth
- synth
- theta
- thine
- thong
- thorn
- thyme
- torah
- vouch
- welch
- whack
- wharf
- whiff
- whine
- whips
- whisk
- whoop
- wight
- winch
- abhor
- ahold
- altho
- awash
- bight
- bough
- brash
- burgh
- bushy
- chaff
- chard
- chars
- chasm
- chews
- chewy
- chimp
- chine
- chins
- chirp
- chock
- chomp
- chump
- chums
- cinch
- conch
- cushy
- ethyl
- frith
- froth
- ghazi
- ghoul
- girth
- glyph
- gulch
- hafiz
- hakim
- hales
- hallo
- halos
- halts
- halve
- hammy
- hamza
- hares
- harps
- harpy
- hauls
- haves
- heady
- heave
- helms
- henna
- heros
- hight
- hiked
- hiker
- hinds
- hocus
- hokey
- holla
- homey
- hooch
- hoppy
- horst
- hosed
- hoses
- hotly
- howes
- howls
- hoyle
- hulls
- humps
- hunks
- hunky
- husks
- hyena
- hymen
- khans
- larch
- lathe
- loath
- lough
- lurch
- mirth
- mocha
- mulch
- mushy
- myrrh
- neath
- nymph
- oaths
- ochre
- oomph
- ortho
- phage
- pithy
- poach
- pooch
- quash
- rajah
- rishi
- saith
- sangh
- shams
- sheaf
- shied
- shill
- shins
- shirk
- shoal
- shorn
- showy
- shrew
- shunt
- shush
- slush
- staph
- surah
- swath
- swish
- synch
- thane
- thins
- thorp
- throb
- thump
- thunk
- tithe
- vichy
- wahoo
- washy
- waugh
- wench
- whigs
- whims
- whiny
- whirl
- whorl
- ached
- aleph
- aphid
- aphis
- ashen
- aught
- belch
- botch
- bothy
- brach
- chafe
- cheep
- chert
- chiao
- chide
- chiro
- chive
- cholo
- chook
- chubs
- chugs
- cooch
- cutch
- dacha
- dashi
- dhoti
- doeth
- echos
- frosh
- ghats
- gnash
- hadji
- hajji
- hames
- hance
- hanky
- hansa
- hanse
- hants
- hards
- harks
- harts
- haugh
- haver
- hazed
- heigh
- helio
- herby
- hexes
- hider
- hilts
- hissy
- hoary
- hobos
- hocks
- hokum
- holey
Darker borders mark common everyday words. Rarer words follow in each group.
Good first guesses
These common words use five different letters that appear often in five-letter words, so they rule out the most letters in one guess:
- share
- horse
- shore
- shade
- chase
Questions
How many five-letter words with H are there?
Our word list has 1,141 five-letter words with H. 271 of them are common everyday words.
What are some common five-letter words with H?
The most common are OTHER, THEIR, THERE, THESE, THINK and WHERE.
Which five-letter word with H scores the most points?
Using standard letter tile values, WHIZZ scores 29 points, the most of any five-letter word with H in our list.
What is a good first guess in a five-letter word game?
Words with five different, frequent letters give you the most information. Good choices from this list are SHARE, HORSE, SHORE and SHADE.
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