5 Letter Word Finder (Plus Every Length From 2 to 15)

What is a word finder?

A word finder is a search tool that filters a dictionary down to the words that match a set of rules you set, instead of making you scroll through a whole dictionary or guess blindly. This one is built as a 5 letter word finder first, since five-letter puzzles are the most searched kind of word finder online, but it isn't limited to five letters. A row of length buttons covers every word from 2 to 15 letters, so the same tool works whether you're stuck on a short crossword answer or a long Scrabble play.

The most common reason people reach for a word finder is a daily Wordle-style puzzle, where you know the word is five letters and you've learned a few things about which letters are in it and where. But the same filtering logic is useful anywhere a word puzzle gives you partial information: Scrabble and Words With Friends racks, crossword blanks with a few letters already filled in, or just trying to recall a word that's on the tip of your tongue. Type in what you know, and the tool narrows a large word list down to the words that fit.

How to use the word finder

1. Pick a word length.Click a number from 2 to 15 in the “Word length” row. It defaults to 5 for Wordle-style puzzles, and only one length can be active at a time. The first time you pick a new length, the word list for it loads briefly before results appear.
2. Add letter filters.Use “Starts with” and “Ends with” for letters you know are at either end of the word. Use “Contains” for a sequence of letters that must appear together somewhere in the word, like typing ea to match bread or ocean. Use “Exclude letters” for any letters you know aren't in the word at all. Fill in as many or as few of these as you need.
3. Read the live results and click to copy. The match count and word tiles update as you type, listed alphabetically, with the first 200 shown and a “Show more” button to reveal the rest. Click any tile to copy that word to your clipboard; a checkmark flashes on the tile for two seconds to confirm. Use Reset to clear every filter and return to length 5.

Where a word finder comes in handy

For daily word games like Wordle, the 5 letter word finder is the fastest way to turn green and yellow letters into a short list of real candidates: set “Starts with” or “Ends with” for confirmed positions, add the letters you know are in the word to “Contains”, and drop the greyed-out letters into “Exclude letters”. For Scrabble and Words With Friends, switch the length to match your rack or the open space on the board, and use “Starts with” or “Ends with” to find hooks that extend a word already on the board.

Crossword solvers can use “Starts with” and “Ends with” together with a known length to fill in a blank when only a few letters are pinned down, and the “Contains” filter helps when you remember a chunk of a word but not its edges. It's also a handy vocabulary tool for teaching or writing, letting you browse every word of a given length or every word containing a particular letter pattern.

Honest limitations

This tool searches the ENABLE word list, a public-domain, Scrabble-tournament-style dictionary of roughly 173,000 English words covering lengths 2 through 15. Because it's built for word games, it includes plurals, verb inflections, and plenty of obscure but legal words, while excluding proper nouns, hyphenated words, abbreviations, and most recent slang or brand names. That means a word showing up here doesn't guarantee your specific game will accept it, and a word your game accepts might not appear here, since Words With Friends and other app dictionaries differ slightly from ENABLE.

A couple of behaviors are worth knowing before you rely on the results: “Contains” only matches a consecutive sequence of letters, so searching ea finds words with e and a adjacent, not words that merely contain both letters somewhere. And if you exclude a letter you've also typed into “Starts with”, “Ends with”, or “Contains”, that's a contradiction, and the tool will correctly return zero words.

Why is it free?

This word finder is one of many free tools on FreeToGenerate.com, and it runs entirely in your browser: the filtering happens on your device, with only the word list for the length you select downloaded, and nothing you type is ever sent anywhere. There's no account to create, no watermark on anything you copy, and no premium tier hiding features behind a paywall. It's simply a tool that's free to use, for as long as you need it.