5-letter words with A as the 2nd letter and S as the 4th letter

The frame ?AS?? puts A in the second square and S in the fourth. Endings do most of the shaping: 26 matches close in E and 13 in Y, and the -ASY run alone covers 17 words, among them DAISY, SASSY, PALSY, PATSY and PANSY. Eighteen land on the Wordle answer list.

?AS?? at a glance

• 73 matches, every one with A second and S fourth.
• The doubled-S core holds 18 of them.
• 26 close in E, 13 in Y and 10 in T.
• KARSY and GAWSY tie at 12 points; HARSH, HAWSE and PAYSD reach 11.
• 18 are Wordle answers and 15 rank as common words.

How many 5-letter words have A second and S fourth?

The count is 73. It trails the O??? second slot at 97 and R at 77, and edges out E at 69, so A sits in the middle of the pack for this frame.

Two letter shapes account for most of the list. A doubled S in the middle, as in MASSE, MASSA, PASSE, SASSY and LASSO, covers 18 matches; the -ASY tail, as in DAISY, SASSY, PALSY, PATSY and PANSY, covers 17.

Endings lean on E and Y: 26 words finish in E and 13 in Y, together more than half the set. T follows with 10 and A with 9.

Which ?AS?? words score and solve best?

KARSY and GAWSY share the top score at 12 points, both finishing on a Y. HARSH, HAWSE and PAYSD reach 11, and MARSH, PALSY, PATSY, PANSY and MASSY settle at 10.

Wordle players get 18 answers here, and most are everyday words: CAUSE, RAISE, FALSE, HARSH, PAUSE, WAIST, MARSH, DAISY, SALSA, LAPSE, SASSY, MASSE, PALSY, PATSY, PARSE, PANSY, LASSO and GASSY.

Fifty-two matches carry definitions. A plural form such as GAUSS or a rare play like PAYSD is best confirmed against your game's word list before it hits the board.