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5-letter words with H as the 1st letter and T as the 4th letter

5-letter words with H as the 1st letter and T as the 4th letter total 30, and 18 of them end in S.

30 wordsTop pick HURTSHighest score HERTZ 17

10 of 30 are everyday words (33%). A friendly list: most players will know the top picks.

With H in 1st place, E is the most common 4th letter (105 words). The bar under each letter shows the size of its list.

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Best words to play first 30 · most-used first

  • HURTS8
  • HOSTS8
  • HINTS8
  • HEATH11
  • HEATS8
  • HASTE8
  • HEFTY14
  • HUNTS8
  • HASTY11
  • HAUTE8
  • HERTZ17
  • HALTS8
  • HASTA8
  • HOOTS8
  • HANTS8
  • HARTS8
  • HILTS8
  • HOLTS8
  • HOTTY11
  • HOSTA8
  • HOOTY11
  • HAITH11
  • HEFTE11
  • HOUTS8
  • HAFTS11
  • HEFTS11
  • HESTS8
  • HAETS8
  • HENTS8
  • HISTS8
All valid words 30

A to Z. Includes rare and Collins-only words. Linked tiles open the word's meaning, score and rhymes.

  • HAETS8
  • HAFTS11
  • HAITH11
  • HALTS8
  • HANTS8
  • HARTS8
  • HASTA8
  • HASTE8
  • HASTY11
  • HAUTE8
  • HEATH11
  • HEATS8
  • HEFTE11
  • HEFTS11
  • HEFTY14
  • HENTS8
  • HERTZ17
  • HESTS8
  • HILTS8
  • HINTS8
  • HISTS8
  • HOLTS8
  • HOOTS8
  • HOOTY11
  • HOSTA8
  • HOSTS8
  • HOTTY11
  • HOUTS8
  • HUNTS8
  • HURTS8
Letters by positionIn 60% of these words the 5th letter is S.
2nd letter
  1. A33%
  2. E27%
  3. O23%
3rd letter
  1. S23%
  2. F13%
  3. N13%
5th letter
  1. S60%
  2. Y13%
  3. E10%

Highest-scoring words

Scrabble and Words With Friends points, before board bonuses
Score spreadMost of these words score 8 in Scrabble; HERTZ tops the list with 17. Scores before board bonuses.
  1. 88 points: 20 words
  2. 9 points: 0 words
  3. 1010 points: 0 words
  4. 11 points: 8 words
  5. 1212 points: 0 words
  6. 13 points: 0 words
  7. 1414 points: 1 words
  8. 15 points: 0 words
  9. 1616 points: 0 words
  10. 17 points: 1 words
WordScrabbleWords With FriendsDictionaries
HERTZ1716All three
HEFTY1412All three
HEATH119All three
HASTY119All three
HOTTY119Collins · NWL
HOOTY119All three
HAITH119Collins only
HEFTE1110Collins only
HAFTS1110All three
HEFTS1110All three
HURTS88All three
HOSTS87All three

The fourth letter is fixed, so the ending does the real work: 18 of the 30 matches finish in S, and most of those are third-person verbs or plurals such as HURTS, HOSTS, HINTS, HEATS and HUNTS. Ten matches count as common English, so the list stays usable. HERTZ is the only entry that scores big.

The H??T? shape in numbers

  • Thirty matches, all with T in the fourth slot.
  • Eighteen end in S and only four in Y.
  • HERTZ tops the values at 17; HEFTY follows on 14.
  • Five matches are Wordle answers: HASTE, HASTY, HAUTE, HEATH and HEFTY.
  • Ten matches are common English and 27 have a definition.

S endings turn the list into verbs

Eighteen of the 30 matches close with S, and they read like a stack of third-person verbs: HURTS, HOSTS, HINTS, HEATS, HUNTS, HALTS and HAFTS. A second cluster runs H?ST?, covering HASTE, HASTY, HASTA, HESTS, HISTS and HOSTA. That makes the pattern strongest when you already know the word ends in S but not which verb it is.

The Y endings behave differently. Only four matches close in Y, and HASTY, HEFTY and HOOTY are adjectives, so a final Y points at a describing word rather than a verb.

Five Wordle answers, led by the HAST- pair

Five matches are Wordle answers: HASTE, HASTY, HAUTE, HEATH and HEFTY. Three of the five begin with HA-, which makes that opening the fastest filter here, and all five are common words. HASTE and HASTY differ only in their final letter, so a single yellow tile can separate them.

A pattern that travels between word lists

Note

ENABLE lists 25 of the 30 matches and NWL2023 26, so this shape travels well between word lists. Only HAITH, HASTA, HEFTE and HOUTS fall out of both, and none of the four is a word you would reach for.

Questions people ask

How many 5-letter words have H first and T fourth?
Thirty matches fit the H??T? shape. Eighteen end in S and four in Y, so the pattern leans hard on those two endings, and a guesser who fixes the last letter has a short list left.
Which H-T words are Wordle answers?
HASTE, HASTY, HAUTE, HEATH and HEFTY are the five answers, and all five are common words. HASTE and HASTY differ by a single letter, so they work as a pair for testing.
What is the highest Scrabble score here?
HERTZ scores 17 thanks to its Z, well clear of HEFTY on 14 and the pack of 11-point words that includes HEATH, HASTY and HAFTS. The list averages 9.3 points.

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