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

The pattern reads like a list of people and things that do: GAMER, GAZER, GIVER, GOFER and GAPER all close with -ER. That ending covers 14 of the 21 matches, while GNARR, GLAUR and a handful of others sit outside it. Only GAMER, GIVER and GATOR qualify as common English, and GAZER and GAZAR are the only matches that reach double figures.

How the G???R matches break down

• R closes every one of the 21 matches.
• Fourteen close with -ER, an agent-noun ending.
• GAZER and GAZAR tie at the top on 15 points.
• Five matches are Wordle answers: GAMER, GAYER, GAZER, GIVER and GONER.
• Common English covers just three: GAMER, GIVER and GATOR.

The -ER ending covers two thirds of the list

Fourteen of the 21 matches end in -ER, and most read as someone who does something: GAMER, GAZER, GIVER, GOFER, GAPER, GIBER and GLUER. The middle letter is where the list actually splits, since position three holds fifteen different letters and none appears more than three times. That makes the shape a decent fit for a probe that already fixes G at the front and R at the back.

Watch the vowel in position two. A leads there in eight matches, which is why GAZER, GAMER, GAPER and GATOR feel like one family, but the list then jumps to O in GOFER, GONER and GOMER. If your grid already shows an A after the G, the field narrows fast.

Two Z words and the Wordle set

GAZER and GAZAR both score 15, and nothing else here reaches double figures, so the Z carries the list. The same GAZER also appears among the five Wordle answers, alongside GAMER, GAYER, GIVER and GONER. All five are -ER forms, which tells you the answer list stays inside the most common ending rather than the odd ones.

Which words fall out of the smaller lists