All 905 five-letter English words that contain T, grouped by first letter, with the position stats, past Wordle answers, and opening guesses that make the pattern usable mid-game.
905 matching words 495 past Wordle answers 28.3% repeat a letter
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Quick answer
905 five-letter words contain T. 495 of them (25.6% of the 1,930-puzzle Wordle archive) have already been used as answers, most recently TRUNK on 2026-09-28. RATES is the strongest opening guess in the list.
Pattern statistics
What this 905-word list looks like
Every figure below is generated from our own five-letter corpus rather than copied from a generic word list, so the numbers move with the data behind the Wordle solver and the five-letter word finder.
Where T usually falls
Letter(s)
Words
Share of this list
Position 1
224
23%
Position 2
87
8.9%
Position 3
151
15.5%
Position 4
289
29.6%
Position 5
225
23.1%
Position counts are based on every occurrence of T across 905 matching words (a word can count more than once if T repeats).
Most common endings
Letter(s)
Words
Share of this list
TS
168
18.6%
ES
38
4.2%
NT
37
4.1%
TY
37
4.1%
TE
36
4%
ED
36
4%
The two-letter endings that show up most often in words containing T.
Most common letters in this list
Letter(s)
Words
Share of this list
T
905
100%
S
460
50.8%
E
375
41.4%
A
322
35.6%
I
246
27.2%
R
240
26.5%
O
229
25.3%
U
171
18.9%
How many of the 905 words contain each letter at least once. Useful when you want a follow-up guess that tests letters this pattern rarely rules out.
Vowel spread
Letter(s)
Words
Share of this list
0 distinct vowels
3
0.3%
1 distinct vowel
482
53.3%
2 distinct vowels
399
44.1%
3 distinct vowels
21
2.3%
Words grouped by how many distinct vowels they hold. Wordle answers containing T follow the same broad shape, so a guess with two different vowels usually survives longer than one with three.
Repeated letters in this list
256 of these words (28.3%) use the same letter twice — APART, CATCH, COSTS, DATED, DIGIT, DITTO. Wordle colours duplicate letters from left to right, so a gray copy can sit next to a green one in the same row. The double-letter rules guide walks through how to read those rows without discarding a letter you still need.
Best guesses
Strongest opening words containing T
Words from this list with no repeated letters, ranked by how much of the five-letter corpus their letters cover. A higher coverage score means the guess tests more common letters, so more candidates fall away whatever colours come back.
RankWordLetter coverage
1RATES
Its letters appear in 38.9% of all five-letter words in our corpus
2STARE
Its letters appear in 38.9% of all five-letter words in our corpus
3TEARS
Its letters appear in 38.9% of all five-letter words in our corpus
4LEAST
Its letters appear in 37.9% of all five-letter words in our corpus
5STEAL
Its letters appear in 37.9% of all five-letter words in our corpus
6STALE
Its letters appear in 37.9% of all five-letter words in our corpus
495 of the 1,930 Wordle answers published since puzzle #0 contain T — 25.6% of the archive, starting with REBUT on 2021-06-20. The most recent twelve are below.
Answer
Puzzle
Date
TRUNK
#1927
2026-09-28
FORTH
#1922
2026-09-23
STOKE
#1921
2026-09-22
THETA
#1916
2026-09-17
DEALT
#1914
2026-09-15
NIFTY
#1911
2026-09-12
BURST
#1908
2026-09-09
UNCUT
#1895
2026-08-27
TRACE
#1889
2026-08-21
STRIP
#1886
2026-08-18
TRIBE
#1885
2026-08-17
MOTIF
#1872
2026-08-04
Past answers are shown for pattern context. Wordle has repeated old answers since February 2026, so a word appearing here does not rule it out for a future puzzle.
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Quick answers
Questions about words containing T
Counts, answer history, and guess quality for this exact pattern.
How many five-letter words contain T?+
Our generated corpus holds 905 five-letter English words that contain T. Every one of them is listed on this page, grouped by first letter. The corpus is a broad vocabulary list built for pattern matching, so it is wider than the daily Wordle answer list.
Have words contain T been used as Wordle answers?+
Yes. 495 of the 1,930 Wordle answers published so far contain T, which is 25.6% of the archive. The most recent was TRUNK (puzzle #1927, 2026-09-28).
What is the best Wordle guess that contains T?+
RATES scores highest here: it repeats no letters and its five letters appear in 38.9% of all five-letter words in our corpus, so it tests more of the alphabet in one guess than the alternatives. The full ranked shortlist is in the "best guesses" table above.
Do words contain T often repeat a letter?+
256 of these 905 words (28.3%) repeat at least one letter, for example APART, CATCH, COSTS, DATED. That matters because Wordle scores duplicate letters from left to right, so a gray tile does not always mean the letter is missing.
How do I narrow this list down with my own clues?+
Open the solver, enter your green, yellow, and gray tiles exactly as the board shows them, and it applies every clue at once, including duplicate-letter counts. This page fixes a single pattern; the solver combines that pattern with everything else you already know.