5-letter words with E as the 3rd letter and H as the 5th letter

The pattern is _ _ E _ H, so every match ends in H; the opening letters do most of the work in narrowing your options. Familiar choices include fresh, teeth, and flesh, but only five of the 18 entries rank among common English words. That gap matters when you are solving from a clue rather than choosing a playable word.

At a glance: the E-and-H pattern

• 18 words match the five-letter pattern with E third and H fifth.
• Fresh, teeth, and flesh are familiar examples; five matches are common words.
• Kheth leads the scoring list at 15 Scrabble points, ahead of keech at 14.
• Collins accepts 15 matches, NWL2023 accepts 13, and ENABLE accepts 10.
• All five matching Wordle answers also appear in a tournament dictionary.

Which matches are useful for a Wordle clue?

Five words in the pattern appear in the Wordle answer list, and all five are also recognized by a tournament dictionary. The full set has 18 allowed guesses, so a valid guess is not necessarily a likely answer.

Start with familiar options such as fresh, teeth, or flesh when the first two letters remain unknown. Each tests a different opening while preserving E in slot three and H at the end; feedback on those positions can quickly rule out the pattern.

5-letter words with E as the 3rd letter and H as the 5th letter

The first letter is not evenly distributed: B, F, and K each begin two matches, while several other starts appear once. That makes the opening pair a better clue than the fixed final H. Compare beech with leech, or fresh with flesh, to test how one changed letter shifts the word.

For Scrabble, kheth scores 15 points before board bonuses, while keech scores 14 and cheth scores 13. These high scorers are much less familiar than fresh or flesh, and dictionary coverage varies: Collins has 15 of the matches, compared with 13 in NWL2023. Check your game's word list before playing an uncommon entry.