5-letter words with B as the 1st letter and R as the 4th letter

The pattern is B??R?: B is fixed at the start, R sits in the fourth slot, and the middle and final letters remain open. BOARD, BEARD, BEARS, BERRY, and BLARE are familiar fits; BOURG and BLART are less obvious. Just six matches rank among common English words, so expect plenty of unfamiliar entries.

Quick facts about the B??R? pattern

• Forty matches fit the pattern across tournament dictionaries.
• Collins lists all 40; ENABLE has 23 and NWL2023 has 24.
• Thirteen matches end in S, more than any other final letter.
• BAJRA and BAJRI top the score list at 14 points each.

How many 5-letter words have B first and R fourth?

Exactly 40 words match B??R?, and the count includes words found in at least one tournament dictionary. Collins has all 40; ENABLE includes 23 and NWL2023 includes 24. These dictionary totals overlap, so adding them would count some entries more than once.

The final-letter pattern helps narrow a guess: S closes 13 matches, while E closes five; D, T, and Y each close four. Since all 40 begin with B, a confirmed ending S separates a substantial group from the rest. BEARS, BEERS, and BOARS show how different the remaining letters can be.

Only six entries are common by frequency, and 29 have definitions. For comparison, the same R-in-fourth pattern has 131 matches with S in the first slot, more than triple the B group. Familiar-looking options are not the whole pool, and a definition count does not make every word everyday vocabulary.

Which matches work for Wordle and scoring?

Six matches occur in Wordle’s answer set, and all 40 are accepted guesses. That overlap makes B??R? a strong constraint, not a complete solution: use the other revealed letters before choosing BOARD, BEARD, or another candidate. The answer count is small, so do not treat every legal guess as a likely answer.

For scoring, BAJRA and BAJRI each lead at 14 points, followed by BAKRA at 11. They beat familiar choices on letter value, but may be poor practical plays if you do not know them or your rack cannot support them. Collins lists 40 matches, compared with 24 in NWL2023, so Collins acceptance alone does not guarantee North American acceptance; check your game’s word list.