5-Letter Words Ending With P

All 82 five-letter words in the ENABLE dictionary that end with P. Wordle answer words are highlighted.

Use this page when you know the last letter of your Wordle answer. If position 5 shows a green tile with the letter P, every word on this page is a valid candidate.

Words ending in P are moderately common. The P tile is worth 3 points in Scrabble.

Narrowing from 2,309 possible Wordle answers to 82 words ending in P makes your next guess much more targeted.

This list comes from the ENABLE dictionary, a 172,823-word public domain list used across many word-game tools. It is much broader than the Wordle answer list, so many words here are valid Wordle guesses but have never been an actual solution.

1. Start with the highlighted panel. The 55 words shown in the "Common Wordle answers" box are pulled from the real Wordle answer list. The rest of the words below are ENABLE dictionary entries that Wordle will accept as guesses even though they are unlikely to be the day's solution.
2. Confirm your clue. This page assumes position 5 is a confirmed green tile with P. If P showed up yellow instead, it belongs somewhere else in the word, and this ending-letter filter does not apply yet.
3. Stack filters for speed. Combine this ending-letter constraint with green, yellow, and grey letters from other positions using the Wordle Helper. To browse without any ending filter, see 5-Letter Words.
4. Reuse the list elsewhere. These same words work for the Word Unscrambler and Anagram Solver when P is one of your scrambled letters, and for the Scrabble Word Finder when you need a word to end your play on a specific board tile.

A confirmed P in the last position is one of the strongest single clues in Wordle, since it removes every word in the 2,309-word answer list that ends any other way. Only 55 answer words end in P, about 2 percent of the full pool.

To narrow further, look at position 4. Among words ending in P, the letter M shows up right before it most often, in 31 of the 82 words. Testing that letter in position 4 alongside untested consonants elsewhere in your guess is an efficient way to cover more ground.

Words ending in P are a distinct enough pattern that once confirmed, you should stop guessing words that end in any other letter.

About 32 percent of words ending in P contain the vowel U, and 27 percent contain E. If your earlier guesses already tested those vowels with no match, your remaining guesses should lean toward less common vowels or consonant clusters instead.

Many five-letter words ending in P follow a consonant-vowel pattern right before the final letter, though some end in a double consonant or consonant blend. Scan the list above for the shape that matches your other known letters.

The highest-scoring five-letter word ending in P on this page is equip at 16 points under standard Scrabble tile values, before multipliers. Words that end in a high-value letter like J, Q, X, or Z are worth checking first for board-ending plays.

For NYT Spelling Bee, an ending-letter filter is less commonly needed since Spelling Bee does not care about word position, but this list is still a fast way to browse valid five-letter words if P is one of the day's allowed letters and you need inspiration for longer entries.