5-Letter Words Ending in E
A confirmed E in position five is one of the strongest clues in the game. Here is every word that fits it.
931 five-letter words end in E. That is second only to S, but the two behave nothing alike as clues.
A final S usually signals a plural, which tells you almost nothing about the other four letters. A final E is structural — it shapes the vowel pattern of the whole word, which is why it narrows the field far more than its raw count suggests.
The silent-E effect
Most words here carry a silent terminal E that lengthens the vowel before it: STONE, PLANE, GRIME, SLOPE. That construction forces a consonant into position four and a vowel into position three in a large share of cases.
So a green E at the end is really two clues wearing one coat. It tells you the last letter and it heavily biases what can sit in the two positions before it.
The -LE ending
A large sub-group ends in -LE rather than a bare E: TABLE, BIBLE, ANGLE, NOBLE, PURPLE's shorter cousins. If you have a green E in position five and have ruled out a vowel from position four, L is the single most likely candidate there, followed by N, R and T.
That one heuristic solves a surprising number of stuck grids without any further guessing.
What it rules out
A confirmed final E makes a repeated E much less likely elsewhere, and it makes a second vowel in position two much more likely. Those two facts together are usually worth more than a whole extra guess.
It also all but eliminates the -ED and -ER endings, which absorb a large share of five-letter words. Removing those from consideration is a bigger cut than most players realise.
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About the list
Five-letter words ending in E, from the same 8,636-word list the solver uses, including uncommon and archaic entries alongside everyday vocabulary.