5-letter words with A as the 1st letter and A as the 3rd letter

The pattern is A _ A _ _: the first and third positions are fixed, while the second, fourth and final letters can change. AGAIN, APART and AWARE are familiar anchors; the wider set also includes less common forms such as AVANT and AGAPE. These counts cover words accepted by at least one tournament dictionary, not every spelling in a general word database.

At a glance: what stands out in the A-A pattern?

• The A _ A _ _ pattern has 82 five-letter entries across the tournament dictionaries.
• Eighteen words match the Wordle answer list, while all 82 are allowed guesses.
• Only 11 entries are among the commonest English words, so many matches are obscure.
• Words ending in E and S tie at 18 each; A follows with 11.
• Collins includes 81 matches, NWL2023 has 54, and ENABLE has 50.

Which A-A words stand out for Wordle and Scrabble?

For Wordle, the answer-list count is 18, a useful filter when you have already confirmed A in the first and third spots. AGAIN, APART and AWARE are recognizable pattern matches, but the available facts do not identify which individual examples belong to that answer subset.

For Scrabble, AMAZE leads at 16 points; AGAZE and ATAXY each score 15. AMAZE is the more familiar choice, while those rarer alternatives show why a pattern search can surface scoring plays that ordinary vocabulary misses. The strongest word still needs a playable board position.

What should you know about A-first, A-third five-letter words?

The count changes by dictionary: Collins has 81 entries, compared with 54 in NWL2023 and 50 in ENABLE. Since those totals overlap, they are not separate groups to add together. Check your game's word list before relying on a rare match.

A practical clue-solving move is to test the final letter early: E and S are tied as the most common endings, with 18 words apiece. The S-starting version of this pattern is much larger, with 249 matches, so the A-starting set is comparatively compact.