5-letter words with H as the 2nd letter and S as the 5th letter

Every match closes on S, so the final tile is settled before you start. The opening letters are not evenly spread: CH supplies 31 words and SH another 30, while WH adds 17 and TH 11. That concentration gives solvers a useful first guess, and it explains why both Wordle answers in the set begin with the same two letters.

The pattern in five numbers

• 111 tournament-dictionary words put H in slot two and S in slot five.
• Sixty-one of them open with CH or SH, so the first two tiles often form a digraph.
• Eighteen matches rank among the 25,000 most frequent English words.
• CHAOS and CHESS are the only Wordle answers; 109 matches are allowed guesses.
• Collins lists 109 matches, NWL2023 lists 90, and ENABLE lists 83.

Why CH- and SH- dominate the list

CH starts 31 matches and SH starts 30, together covering 55 percent of the list. WH follows with 17 and TH with 11, leaving only 22 words for every other opening pair. Familiar entries such as SHOWS, SHOES, SHOTS, SHIPS, and SHOPS all sit in the SH group.

The two Wordle answers, CHAOS and CHESS, both begin with CH and both score 10 points. Just two solutions in a 111-word pattern is thin, but 109 matches are accepted guesses, so the pattern works better as a filter than as an answer pool.

5-letter words with H as the 2nd letter and S as the 5th letter

Collins carries 109 matches and NWL2023 carries 90, a gap of 19 words. KHAFS, the top scorer at 15, appears in all three tournament lists, while CHIKS at 14 is Collins-only. The average score across the set is 10.5, with WHEWS and WHEYS adding two more 14-point options.

Every entry ends in S, which means the list leans on plurals and third-person verb forms: SHOWS, SHEDS, CHATS, and CHAPS all fit that shape. For 5-letter words with H as the 2nd letter and S as the 5th letter, the practical limit is dictionary coverage rather than spelling, since ENABLE omits 26 matches that Collins accepts.