5-letter words with A as the 1st letter and V as the 2nd letter

An AV opening narrows the choices quickly: only 18 five-letter words match, and just five are common by the site’s frequency measure. AVOID, AVERT, and AVIAN are recognizable picks among a mix that also includes specialist entries. The pattern has four Wordle answers, all included in the tournament-dictionary count.

5-letter words with A as the 1st letter and V as the 2nd letter

• There are 18 matching words across the tournament dictionaries.
• AVYZE tops the Scrabble scoring list at 20 points.
• AVOID scores 9, while AVERT and AVIAN each score 8.
• Five words end in E and five end in S, the most common final letters.
• Four matching words appear among Wordle answers.

Why does the AV pattern have so few options?

Only 18 five-letter words begin AV, far fewer than nearby A-second-letter patterns: A followed by L has 89 matches, and A followed by R has 85. That makes the V a strong constraint when you already know the first two tiles.

The dictionary split matters. Collins has all 18 entries, while ENABLE and NWL2023 each include 12. A word accepted in Collins may not work in a game using either North American list, so check your game’s word list before relying on an unfamiliar entry.

Which AV words stand out in games?

AVYZE is the scoring outlier at 20 points, followed by AVIZE at 17; both beat the more familiar AVOID at 9. AVOWS reaches 11, while AVAIL, AVANT, AVERT, AVIAN, and AVAST each score 8. The average score across the pattern is 9.4.

Four entries are Wordle answers, and all four also appear in a tournament dictionary. Those four are not named individually, so use the complete matching set rather than guessing from a partial example list. For 5-letter words with A as the 1st letter and V as the 2nd letter, endings are split most often between E and S, with five words for each.