5-letter words with B as the 4th letter and E as the 5th letter
Twenty-seven 5-letter words with B as the 4th letter and E as the 5th letter exist, and six double as both common words and Wordle answers.
6 of 27 are everyday words (22%). A mix of familiar words and game-only finds.
With B in 4th place, S is the most common 5th letter (83 words). The bar under each letter shows the size of its list.
Best words to play first
- MAYBE12
- GLOBE8
- TRIBE7
- PROBE9
- ADOBE8
- BRIBE9
- GLEBE8
- COMBE11
- REBBE9
- GREBE8
- BARBE9
- BOMBE11
- PLEBE9
- TAUBE7
- THEBE10
- KIBBE13
- POMBE11
- DAUBE8
- GERBE8
- GARBE8
- JAMBE16
- BUBBE11
- GAMBE10
- JEMBE16
- CORBE9
- HOWBE13
- SYBBE12
All valid words 27
Highest-scoring words
| Word | Scrabble | Words With Friends | Dictionaries |
|---|---|---|---|
| JAMBE | 16 | 20 | All three |
| JEMBE | 16 | 20 | Collins only |
| KIBBE | 13 | 15 | All three |
| HOWBE | 13 | 13 | Collins only |
| MAYBE | 12 | 13 | All three |
| SYBBE | 12 | 13 | Collins only |
| COMBE | 11 | 14 | All three |
| BOMBE | 11 | 14 | All three |
| POMBE | 11 | 14 | Collins · NWL |
| BUBBE | 11 | 15 | NWL only |
| THEBE | 10 | 10 | All three |
| GAMBE | 10 | 13 | All three |
Every match ends in E with B just before it, so the frame is ???BE. The six familiar words are adobe, bribe, globe, maybe, probe and tribe, and each is also a Wordle answer, an overlap that rare patterns seldom show. The average score reaches 10.
B-fourth, E-fifth words at a glance
- Twenty-seven words put B fourth and E fifth, and each ends in E.
- The six common words are adobe, bribe, globe, maybe, probe and tribe.
- Those same six are the only Wordle answers in the group.
- G opens six matches, from globe and glebe to grebe and garbe.
- Jambe and jembe top the scores at 16 apiece, and the group average is 10.
- Collins holds 26, NWL2023 20 and ENABLE 18.
Why the common words are also the answers
Six words sit in the common band, and they are exactly the six Wordle answers: adobe, bribe, globe, maybe, probe and tribe. No obscure entry in the group has ever been a solution, and no common word here has been left out.
That perfect match is rare. Most patterns let the answer pool reach deeper than the familiar core, so here the everyday list doubles as the answer list. If none of the six fits your grid, the other 21 words are guess-only.
Where the J and B tiles lift the scores
The average lands on 10, high for a five-letter group, because B appears in every word and J joins a few. Jambe and jembe reach 16, kibbe and howbe follow on 13, and maybe and sybbe score 12 with combe, bombe, pombe and bubbe on 11.
The middle letter matters less than the shell. Six words carry M in the third slot, among them jambe, jembe, combe and bombe, and those M-and-B stacks push several entries past their plain letter values.
Start with the familiar six
When B and E are green at the end, test adobe, bribe, globe, maybe, probe and tribe before anything else. Those six cover every Wordle answer in the pattern; the rest are Collins-heavy and better for Scrabble.
Questions people ask
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