5 letter words with I and E

845 words, all 5 letters. Highest score JIVEY (21 points).

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jivey₂₁
jived₁₉
fique₁₈
jibed₁₈
jiver₁₈
jives₁₈
bemix₁₇
equip₁₇
jiber₁₇
jibes₁₇
pique₁₇
pyxie₁₇

Words by first letter

Starting with A 38

abide
adieu
aecia
aegis
aerie
afire
aggie
agile
aided
aider
aides
ailed
aimed
aimer
aired
airer
aisle
aiver
alien
alike
aline
alive
amice
amide
amies
amine
anile
anime
anise
areic
ariel
arise
aside
aurei
axile
axite
azide
azine

Starting with B 45

baize
bedim
befit
begin
beige
beigy
being
belie
bemix
benni
bewig
bezil
bible
bices
bided
bider
bides
bidet
bield
biers
biked
biker
bikes
bikie
biles
bilge
bines
binge
biome
biped
birle
birse
bises
biter
bites
bizes
blite
bogie
boite
bribe

5 more starting with B — open them in the finder

Starting with C 37

cavie
cebid
cedis
ceiba
ceils
celli
cerci
ceria
ceric
cesti
chide
chief
chiel
chile
chime
chine
chive
cider
cimex
cines
cires
cited
citer
cites
civet
civie
clime
cline
cosie
cozie
cried
crier
cries
crime
cripe
curie
cutie

Starting with D 50

deair
debit
defis
deice
deify
deign
deils
deism
deist
deity
delis
demit
denim
devil
dexie
diced
dicer
dices
dicey
didie
diene
diets
diked
diker
dikes
dikey
dimer
dimes
dined
diner
dines
dinge
diode
direr
dirge
disme
dites
dived
diver
dives

10 more starting with D — open them in the finder

Starting with E 41

edict
edify
edile
edits
eerie
eider
eidos
eight
eikon
eking
elain
elemi
elfin
elide
elint
elite
eloin
emirs
emits
ennui
enoki
entia
envoi
eosin
epics
equid
equip
erica
ervil
ethic
etuis
evict
evils
evite
exile
exine
exist
exits
eying
eyrie

1 more starting with E — open them in the finder

Starting with F 45

feign
feint
feist
felid
feria
fermi
fetid
fiber
fibre
fices
fiche
fidge
fiefs
field
fiend
fiery
fifed
fifer
fifes
filed
filer
files
filet
fille
fined
finer
fines
fique
fired
firer
fires
fiver
fives
fixed
fixer
fixes
flied
flier
flies
flite

5 more starting with F — open them in the finder

Starting with G 25

gelid
genic
genie
genii
genip
geoid
gibed
giber
gibes
gighe
gigue
gimel
gimme
given
giver
gives
glide
glime
gride
grief
grime
gripe
guide
guile
guise

Starting with H 21

heigh
heils
heirs
heist
helio
helix
hemic
hemin
hided
hider
hides
hiked
hiker
hikes
hinge
hired
hirer
hires
hived
hives
hoise

Starting with I 52

icier
icker
ideal
ideas
idled
idler
idles
ileac
ileal
ileum
ileus
iller
image
imbed
imbue
imide
imine
imped
impel
inane
inbye
index
indie
indue
inept
inert
infer
ingle
inked
inker
inkle
inlet
inned
inner
inset
inter
inure
irade
irate
irked

12 more starting with I — open them in the finder

Starting with J 9

jerid
jibed
jiber
jibes
jived
jiver
jives
jivey
juice

Starting with K 18

kefir
keirs
kelim
kepis
kevil
kibbe
kibei
kibes
kiefs
kiers
kines
kited
kiter
kites
kithe
knife
koine
kyrie

Starting with L 40

legit
lenis
levin
lewis
lexis
liane
libel
liber
liege
liens
liers
lieus
lieve
lifer
liger
liked
liken
liker
likes
limed
limen
limes
limey
lined
linen
liner
lines
liney
lisle
liter
lithe
litre
lived
liven
liver
lives
livre
looie
louie
lweis

Starting with M 46

maile
maize
mamie
mavie
media
medic
medii
meiny
melic
merit
mesic
metis
miche
midge
miens
miked
mikes
miler
miles
mille
mimed
mimeo
mimer
mimes
minae
mince
mined
miner
mines
minke
mired
mires
mirex
miser
mises
miter
mites
mitre
mixed
mixer

6 more starting with M — open them in the finder

Starting with N 22

naevi
naive
neifs
neigh
neist
newie
nicer
niche
nided
nides
niece
nieve
nines
nisei
niter
nites
nitre
nixed
nixes
nixie
noise
nudie

Starting with O 16

obeli
ogive
oiled
oiler
oldie
oleic
olein
olive
oorie
opine
oriel
osier
ourie
ovine
oxide
oxime

Starting with P 47

paise
peins
peise
pekin
penis
penni
peril
peris
petit
petti
pewit
piece
piers
pieta
piety
piked
piker
pikes
pilea
piled
pilei
piles
pined
pines
piney
piped
piper
pipes
pipet
pique
piste
pixel
pixes
pixie
plied
plier
plies
poise
price
pride

7 more starting with P — open them in the finder

Starting with Q 3

quiet
quire
quite

Starting with R 60

raise
ramie
rebid
recti
redia
redid
redip
refit
refix
reifs
reify
reign
reink
reins
reive
relic
relit
remit
remix
renig
renin
reoil
repin
rerig
resid
resin
retia
retie
rewin
ribes
riced
ricer
rices
rider
rides
ridge
riels
rifer
rifle
riled

20 more starting with R — open them in the finder

Starting with S 91

saice
segni
seifs
seine
seise
seism
seize
semis
sengi
senti
sepia
sepic
serai
serif
serin
sheik
shied
shiel
shier
shies
shine
shire
shive
sices
sided
sides
sidle
siege
sieur
sieve
siker
sikes
silex
since
sines
sinew
singe
siped
sipes
sired

51 more starting with S — open them in the finder

Starting with T 50

tawie
teiid
teind
telia
telic
teloi
tempi
tenia
tepid
terai
thein
their
thief
thine
tided
tides
tiers
tiger
tikes
tilde
tiled
tiler
tiles
timed
timer
times
tinea
tined
tines
tinge
tired
tires
titer
tithe
title
titre
toile
towie
tribe
trice

10 more starting with T — open them in the finder

Starting with U 7

unite
untie
uraei
ureic
urine
uteri
utile

Starting with V 27

vegie
veils
veins
veiny
venin
vexil
vibes
viced
vices
video
viers
views
viewy
viler
vimen
vined
vines
viper
vireo
vires
vised
vises
vitae
vixen
vogie
voice
voile

Starting with W 41

waive
weigh
weird
weirs
while
whine
white
widen
wider
wides
wield
wifed
wifes
wiled
wiles
wince
wined
wines
winey
winze
wiped
wiper
wipes
wired
wirer
wires
wised
wiser
wises
wited
wites
withe
wived
wiver
wives
wizen
wizes
wried
wrier
wries

1 more starting with W — open them in the finder

Starting with X 3

xenia
xenic
xeric

Starting with Y 6

yetis
yield
yikes
yince
yipes
yowie

Starting with Z 5

zaire
zeins
zibet
zineb
zowie

This page shows 717 of the 845 words; the finder lists all of them and can copy them as text.

What is in this list

This list holds 845 words, 0.5% 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 12th 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 8.8 points (median 8); words of the same lengths across the whole list average 9.6, so this list runs 0.8 points leaner. The top scorers are JIVEY (21), JIVED (19), FIQUE (18), JIBED (18). Point for point, JIVEY earns the most per letter: 21 points over 5 letters, 4.2 each. I and E together are worth 2 points here, so the score comes from the other letters.

Vowels (A, E, I, O, U) make up 45.6% of the letters, against 38% across the whole list. 225 words are more than half vowels. Compared with the whole dictionary, the letter most over-represented here is V: 2.1% of the letters, against 1% overall.

Letter by letter

In 630 of them I comes before E; in the other 215, E comes first. 205 words put the two side by side, like ADIEU, AERIE, AGGIE and ALIEN. Position by position, the most likely letters are S in slot 1 (10.8%), I in slot 2 (44.7%), I in slot 3 (28.8%), E in slot 4 (43.2%), E in slot 5 (30.7%). 684 words use 5 different letters with none repeated (80.9%); the rest repeat at least one, and the most common double is LL (5 words). The most common three-letter openings are SPI- (10, as in SPICE), TRI- (9, as in TRIBE), PRI- (8, as in PRICE). The most common endings are -INE (21, as in ALINE), -IER (16, as in BRIER), -IDE (15, as in ABIDE). 20% end in a single S — mostly plurals and verb forms of shorter words.

Word play in this list

The biggest anagram family here is PERIS, PIERS, PRIES, PRISE, RIPES, SPEIR, SPIER and 1 more — 8 words from the same 5 letters. Altogether 177 sets of anagrams sit inside this list, covering 477 words. 20 words turn into another real word when spelled backwards — AIDER becomes REDIA, DEMIT becomes TIMED, DENIM becomes MINED, DEVIL becomes LIVED.

55.3% of these words take an S on the end and stay a word (ABIDE, ADIEU and AERIE among them); after S, the most useful end letter is D, which extends 114 words. At the front, S turns 51 words into new ones (AILED → SAILED); A turns 27 words into new ones (BIDED → ABIDED); P turns 26 words into new ones (AIRED → PAIRED).

Using this list

If the answer to a five-letter puzzle is known to be in this list, RILES is the guess that splits it most evenly: its colour patterns divide the words into 67 groups, the largest of which has 136 words left (4.7 bits of information). To narrow it further, open it in the pattern finder: the rule “contains I and E, has 5 letters” is already filled in, and you can add a length, a fixed letter position or letters to leave out.

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