5 letter words ending in T

What is in this list

This list holds 479 words, 0.3% of the 172,634 words this site keeps from the ENABLE word list. Every word here has 5 letters, and they average 5 letters by construction — so the interesting differences are in which letters they use. Of the 36 lists in this group it is the 17th largest: “5 letter words with E” leads with 3,876 and “5 letter words ending in UMPY” has the fewest, 5. 1 word that would also fit was left out by this site's blocklist of slurs and explicit words.

Points and vowels

Using this site's letter values, the average word here scores 8.5 points (median 8); words of the same lengths across the whole list average 9.6, so this list runs 1.2 points leaner. The top scorers are ZIZIT (19), JABOT (17), OBJET (17), QUILT (16). Point for point, ZIZIT earns the most per letter: 19 points over 5 letters, 3.8 each. T itself is worth 1 point here, so the score comes from the other letters.

Vowels (A, E, I, O, U) make up 33.8% of the letters, against 38% across the whole list. 8 words are more than half vowels. 3 words have none of them at all, leaning on Y instead — for example CRYPT, PHPHT and TRYST. Compared with the whole dictionary, the letter most over-represented here is U: 4.7% of the letters, against 3.3% overall.

Letter by letter

Position by position, the most likely letters are S in slot 1 (13.8%), E in slot 2 (12.1%), A in slot 3 (14.6%), S in slot 4 (15.2%), T in slot 5 (100%). 363 words use 5 different letters with none repeated (75.8%); the rest repeat at least one, and the most common double is EE (11 words). The most common three-letter openings are SHO- (5, as in SHOAT), GRI- (4, as in GRIFT), QUI- (4, as in QUIET).

Word play in this list

The biggest anagram family here is CRUET, CURET, ERUCT and RECUT — 4 words from the same 5 letters. Altogether 38 sets of anagrams sit inside this list, covering 81 words. It contains 2 palindromes, read the same both ways: TENET and TOROT. 15 words turn into another real word when spelled backwards — DEBUT becomes TUBED, DEMIT becomes TIMED, DEPOT becomes TOPED, DERAT becomes TARED. ABAFT is the longest word here that uses only one kind of vowel, ahead of ADAPT.

81.4% of these words take an S on the end and stay a word (ABBOT, ABORT and ADAPT among them); after S, the most useful end letter is Y, which extends 52 words. At the front, A turns 12 words into new ones (BLEST → ABLEST); S turns 11 words into new ones (AVANT → SAVANT); B turns 6 words into new ones (ALLOT → BALLOT).

Using this list

If the answer to a five-letter puzzle is known to be in this list, ROAST is the guess that splits it most evenly: its colour patterns divide the words into 46 groups, the largest of which has 93 words left (4.5 bits of information). To narrow it further, open it in the pattern finder: the rule “ends in T, has 5 letters” is already filled in, and you can add a length, a fixed letter position or letters to leave out.