5-letter words with A as the 1st letter and T as the 5th letter

AGENT, ADULT, APART, ADOPT and AVERT all fit A???T, and so do twenty words on the Wordle answer list. That answer count is the highest of any A-first ending pattern, roughly one in three. Scores tell the opposite story: nothing in the group reaches past 10, so this is a vocabulary list rather than a high-scoring rack.

A???T by the numbers

• 58 matches, all starting with A and closing on T.
• Twenty are Wordle answers, a third of the whole set.
• Seventeen rank as common words.
• ABAFT and AMOWT share the top score at 10 points.
• Collins carries 57 of the 58; NWL2023 has 41 and ENABLE 39.

How many 5-letter words start with A and end in T?

The count is 58, level with C???T and behind only S???T at 105. B???T reaches 54, D???T and G???T 43 each, so A holds a solid middle place among the first letters.

Unlike most A-first patterns, this one is full of ordinary verbs and nouns: ABOUT, AGENT, ADULT, APART, ADMIT, ALERT, ASSET, ADOPT, AUDIT and ADAPT all fit the frame.

Wordle value is the real story. Twenty of the 58 are answers: ABOUT, AGENT, ADULT, APART, ADMIT, ALERT, ASSET, ADOPT, AUDIT, ADAPT, AWAIT, ABBOT, ADEPT, ABORT, ANGST, AVERT, ALOFT, ASCOT, AFOOT and ALLOT.

Why the A???T scores stop at 10

ABAFT and AMOWT share the lead at 10 points, and ABBOT, AMBIT and AUGHT follow at 9. Not one match contains a Z, Q or X, which caps the whole group.

Compare that with A???N, where AJWAN reaches 15; ending patterns take their best scores from rare tiles, and T supplies none. The average here sits at 6.9, with 43 of the 58 carrying definitions.

A candidate that looks odd, such as AVAST or AUGHT, is worth checking in your game's word list before it plays, because familiarity and legality are different things.