5-Letter Words Containing G and W
There are 70 five-letter words containing G and W, including 15 common puzzle answers. These are the words with the letters G and W anywhere in the word, in any order. A handy list for Wordle and other five-letter word games.
Popular 5-Letter Puzzle Words Containing G and W
Common puzzle answers are everyday words of the kind word puzzles choose as solutions, most common first. Plurals and rare words are valid guesses but rarely answers, so they're listed separately below.
- WRONG Not correct or in conformity with fact or truth
- GROWN Having reached full size or maturity
- SWING A seat suspended by ropes or chains on which someone can swing back and forth
- WEIGH To determine the weight of something
- WAGON A wheeled vehicle drawn by an animal or tractor
- OWING Owed as a debt
- WEDGE A triangular object used to push between two things to separate them
- SWUNG Past tense of swing, to move back and forth or in a curve
- WAGER A bet on the outcome of an issue
- GROWL A low, rumbling sound made by an animal
- WRING To twist and squeeze something to extract liquid
- TWANG A sharp vibrating sound like that of a plucked string
More Common Puzzle Answers
- WRUNG
- AGLOW
- GAWKY
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Useful Pattern Information
- Most common first letter: W (46%), G (31%), S (9%)
- Most common last letter: S (30%), G (19%), E (11%)
- Most common additional vowel: A, in 47% of these words
- G is most often the fourth letter (37%)
- W is most often the first letter (46%)
- Letters that most often appear alongside: A, N, S, O, I
- Most have 1 vowel (61%)
- 14% contain a repeated letter
- 15 of the 70 are common puzzle answers (21%)
Other Valid Words
55 additional dictionary words contain both G and W — valid guesses, though rarely answers. Most common first.
- WINGS
- WAGES
- GROWS
- WIGAN
- GOWNS
- WIGHT
- WAGED
- TWIGS
- WAUGH
- GLOWS
- WHIGS
- WAGGA
- DAWGS
- WAGYU
- GOWAN
- GLOWY
- WONGA
- SWAGS
- GNAWS
- WIGGY
- WHANG
- WANGS
- SWIGS
- SWANG
- WINGE
- SWAGE
- WENGE
- AWING
- GWINE
- WINGY
Show all 55 words All 55 words
- WODGE
- WRANG
- WIGGA
- WEDGY
- GAWDS
- WADGE
- GAWKS
- WILGA
- DWANG
- BEWIG
- GREWS
- WONGI
- GOWLS
- GNOWS
- GOWKS
- GOWDS
- GAWSY
- WODGY
- WUNGA
- NGWEE
- GNAWN
- GOWFS
- GAWPS
- HEWGH
- GAWCY
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Generated from the TurnWord word database, the dictionary behind the Word Solver and Word Bot. Common puzzle answers are our curated answer list, the everyday words word puzzles tend to use as answers — not the official answer list of any game; every other word is a valid guess. Counts and statistics are computed from this list. Word database updated September 19, 2026.