5 letter words with R and E

1,313 words, all 5 letters. Highest score JERKY (21 points).

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jerky₂₁
xerox₁₉
jerks₁₈
jiver₁₈
joker₁₈
query₁₈
jerry₁₇
jiber₁₇
prexy₁₇
exurb₁₆
furze₁₆
jager₁₆

Words by first letter

A62
B70
C87
D60
E62
F65
G49
H42
I15
J11
K13
L45
M46
N19
O37
P82
Q5
R264
S97
T89
U22
V21
W35
X3
Y7
Z5

Starting with A 62

abler
acerb
acred
acres
adder
adore
aerie
afire
afore
after
agers
agger
agree
aider
aimer
aired
airer
aiver
alder
alert
alter
amber
ameer
anear
anger
antre
apers
apery
apres
apter
arced
ardeb
areae
areal
areas
areca
areic
arena
arete
argle

22 more starting with A — open them in the finder

Starting with B 70

baker
baler
barbe
barde
bared
barer
bares
barge
barre
barye
baser
beard
bears
beers
beery
beret
bergs
berme
berms
berry
berth
beryl
bevor
bider
biers
biker
birle
birse
biter
blare
blear
bluer
boner
bored
borer
bores
borne
bower
boxer
brace

30 more starting with B — open them in the finder

Starting with C 87

caber
cadre
cager
caner
caper
cared
carer
cares
caret
carex
carle
carse
carte
carve
cater
caver
cedar
ceder
ceorl
cerci
cered
ceres
ceria
ceric
ceros
chare
cheer
chert
chore
cider
cires
citer
clear
clerk
coder
comer
cooer
coper
cored
corer

47 more starting with C — open them in the finder

Starting with D 60

dared
darer
dares
dater
deair
dears
deary
debar
decor
decry
deers
defer
demur
derat
deray
derby
derma
derms
derry
deter
dewar
dicer
diker
dimer
diner
direr
dirge
diver
doers
doper
doser
doter
dower
dozer
drake
drape
drave
dread
dream
drear

20 more starting with D — open them in the finder

Starting with E 62

eager
eagre
eared
earls
early
earns
earth
eater
ecrus
edger
eerie
egers
eggar
egger
egret
eider
elder
elver
embar
ember
emeer
emery
emirs
emmer
ender
enorm
enrol
enter
entry
enure
ephor
erase
erect
ergot
erica
ernes
erode
erose
erred
error

22 more starting with E — open them in the finder

Starting with F 65

facer
fader
faery
faker
farce
fared
farer
fares
farle
fears
femur
feral
feres
feria
ferly
fermi
ferns
ferny
ferry
fetor
feuar
fever
fewer
feyer
fiber
fibre
fiery
fifer
filer
finer
fired
firer
fires
fiver
fixer
flare
fleer
flier
flyer
force

25 more starting with F — open them in the finder

Starting with G 49

gager
gamer
gaper
gayer
gazer
gears
genre
genro
gerah
germs
germy
giber
giver
glare
gluer
goers
gofer
goner
gored
gores
gorge
gorse
grace
grade
grape
grate
grave
graze
great
grebe
greed
greek
green
grees
greet
grego
greys
gride
grief
grime

9 more starting with G — open them in the finder

Starting with H 42

haler
hared
harem
hares
hater
haver
hayer
hazer
heard
hears
heart
heder
heirs
henry
herbs
herby
herds
heres
herls
herma
herms
herns
heron
heros
herry
hertz
hewer
hexer
hider
hiker
hired
hirer
hires
hoers
homer
honer
hoper
horde
horse
hover

2 more starting with H — open them in the finder

Starting with I 15

icier
icker
idler
iller
inert
infer
inker
inner
inter
inure
irade
irate
irked
irone
ither

Starting with J 11

jager
japer
jeers
jerid
jerks
jerky
jerry
jiber
jiver
joker
jurel

Starting with K 13

kebar
kefir
keirs
kerbs
kerfs
kerne
kerns
kerry
kiers
kiter
kreep
krone
kyrie

Starting with L 45

lacer
lader
lager
laker
lamer
laree
lares
large
laser
later
laver
laxer
layer
learn
lears
leary
leers
leery
leger
lehrs
lemur
leper
lever
liber
liers
lifer
liger
liker
liner
liter
litre
liver
livre
loner
loper
lores
loser
lover
lower
lucre

5 more starting with L — open them in the finder

Starting with M 46

macer
madre
maker
mares
marge
marse
maser
mater
mazer
mercy
merde
merer
meres
merge
merit
merks
merle
merls
merry
meter
metre
metro
miler
mimer
miner
mired
mires
mirex
miser
miter
mitre
mixer
moire
moper
morae
morel
mores
morse
mover
mower

6 more starting with M — open them in the finder

Starting with N 19

nacre
namer
nares
nears
nerds
nerdy
nerol
nerts
nertz
nerve
nervy
never
newer
nicer
niter
nitre
noter
nuder
nurse

Starting with O 37

oared
oater
ocher
ochre
ocker
ocrea
odder
offer
ofter
ogler
ogres
oiler
older
omber
ombre
omers
onery
oorie
opera
orate
orbed
order
oread
oriel
orles
ormer
osier
other
otter
ourie
outer
outre
overs
overt
owner
oxter
oyers

Starting with P 82

pacer
padre
pager
paler
paper
pared
pareo
parer
pares
pareu
parge
parle
parse
parve
pater
paver
pawer
payer
pearl
pears
peart
pedro
peers
peery
perch
perdu
perdy
perea
peril
peris
perks
perky
perms
perry
perse
peter
piers
piker
piper
plier

42 more starting with P — open them in the finder

Starting with Q 5

quare
queer
quern
query
quire

Starting with R 264

raced
racer
races
raged
ragee
rages
raise
rajes
raked
rakee
raker
rakes
rales
ramee
ramet
ramie
rance
ranee
range
raped
raper
rapes
raphe
rared
rarer
rares
rased
raser
rases
rated
ratel
rater
rates
rathe
raved
ravel
raven
raver
raves
rawer

224 more starting with R — open them in the finder

Starting with S 97

saber
sabre
safer
sager
saker
saner
saree
sarge
saver
sawer
sayer
scare
score
scree
screw
sears
seder
seers
senor
serac
serai
seral
sered
serer
seres
serfs
serge
serif
serin
serow
serry
serum
serve
servo
sever
sewar
sewer
share
shear
sheer

57 more starting with S — open them in the finder

Starting with T 89

taber
taker
taler
tamer
taper
tared
tares
targe
tarre
tater
tawer
taxer
tears
teary
tenor
terai
terce
terga
terms
terne
terns
terra
terry
terse
tetra
their
there
therm
three
threw
throe
tiers
tiger
tiler
timer
tired
tires
titer
titre
toker

49 more starting with T — open them in the finder

Starting with U 22

udder
ulcer
umber
under
upper
uraei
urare
urase
urate
ureal
ureas
uredo
ureic
urged
urger
urges
urine
ursae
users
usher
uteri
utter

Starting with V 21

varve
veers
veery
velar
verbs
verge
verse
verso
verst
verts
vertu
verve
vexer
viers
viler
viper
vireo
vires
vomer
voter
vower

Starting with W 35

wader
wafer
wager
waker
waler
wared
wares
water
waver
waxer
wears
weary
weber
weird
weirs
where
wider
wiper
wired
wirer
wires
wiser
wiver
wooer
worse
wreak
wreck
wrens
wrest
wried
wrier
wries
write
wrote
wryer

Starting with X 3

xeric
xerox
xerus

Starting with Y 7

yager
yarer
yearn
years
yerba
yerks
yores

Starting with Z 5

zaire
zebra
zerks
zeros
zoner

This page shows 753 of the 1,313 words; the finder lists all of them and can copy them as text.

What is in this list

This list holds 1,313 words, 0.8% 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 7th 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 8.3 points (median 8); words of the same lengths across the whole list average 9.6, so this list runs 1.3 points leaner. The top scorers are JERKY (21), XEROX (19), JERKS (18), JIVER (18). Point for point, JERKY earns the most per letter: 21 points over 5 letters, 4.2 each. R and E together are worth 2 points here, so the score comes from the other letters.

Vowels (A, E, I, O, U) make up 39.9% of the letters, against 38% across the whole list. 127 words are more than half vowels. Compared with the whole dictionary, the letter most over-represented here is W: 1.3% of the letters, against 0.7% overall.

Letter by letter

In 726 of them R comes before E; in the other 587, E comes first. 940 words put the two side by side, like ABLER, ACERB, ACRED and ACRES. Position by position, the most likely letters are R in slot 1 (20.1%), E in slot 2 (26%), R in slot 3 (24.1%), E in slot 4 (49%), R in slot 5 (30.4%). 946 words use 5 different letters with none repeated (72%); the rest repeat at least one, and the most common double is EE (69 words). The most common three-letter openings are RED- (15, as in REDAN), SER- (15, as in SERAC), CRE- (14, as in CREAK). The most common endings are -RES (49, as in ACRES), -TER (39, as in AFTER), -RED (33, as in ACRED). 17.4% end in a single S — mostly plurals and verb forms of shorter words.

Word play in this list

The biggest anagram family here is APERS, APRES, ASPER, PARES, PARSE, PEARS, PRASE and 5 more — 12 words from the same 5 letters. Altogether 304 sets of anagrams sit inside this list, covering 912 words. It contains 2 palindromes, read the same both ways: REFER and SERES. 44 words turn into another real word when spelled backwards — AIDER becomes REDIA, ANGER becomes REGNA, CARES becomes SERAC, DEFER becomes REFED. BEERS is the longest word here that uses only one kind of vowel, ahead of BEERY.

61.5% of these words take an S on the end and stay a word (ADDER, ADORE and AERIE among them); after S, the most useful end letter is D, which extends 139 words. At the front, S turns 104 words into new ones (ACRED → SACRED); P turns 78 words into new ones (ADDER → PADDER); C turns 69 words into new ones (AGERS → CAGERS).

Using this list

If the answer to a five-letter puzzle is known to be in this list, SAREE is the guess that splits it most evenly: its colour patterns divide the sampled words into 65 groups, the largest of which has 103 words left (4.9 bits of information). To narrow it further, open it in the pattern finder: the rule “contains R 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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