5-Letter Words With F as the Second Letter
There are 37 five-letter words with F as the second letter, including 8 common puzzle answers. These are the words matching the pattern _F___ (an underscore is any letter). A handy list for Wordle and other five-letter word games.
Popular 5-Letter Puzzle Words With F as the Second Letter
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.
- AFTER Happening at a time subsequent to a reference time
- OFTEN Frequently or many times
- OFFER To present something for someone to accept or reject
- AFOOT Currently in progress
- AFOUL In collision or entanglement with something
- AFFIX To attach to something
- OFFAL The internal organs and other waste parts of a butchered animal
- AFIRE Lighted up by or as by fire or flame
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Useful Pattern Information
- Most common first letter: A (59%), O (24%), E (8%)
- Most common last letter: R (16%), S (14%), T (11%)
- Most common additional vowel: A, in 70% of these words
- Letters that most often appear alongside: A, O, R, E, T
- Most have 2 vowels (68%)
- 57% contain a repeated letter
- 8 of the 37 are common puzzle answers (22%)
Other Valid Words
29 additional dictionary words have F as the second letter — valid guesses, though rarely answers. Most common first.
- AFORE
- IFTAR
- OFFED
- EFFED
- AFROS
- OFTER
- OFFIE
- EFFER
- PFFTT
- AFARS
- OFLAG
- AFFLY
- EFITS
- AFARA
- AFEAR
- AFALD
- AFRIT
- AFRET
- AFTOS
- AFION
- AFLOW
- OFAYS
- OFURO
- AFLAP
- AFANC
- AFOAM
- AFIZZ
- YFERE
- AFLAJ
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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.