5-letter words with I as the 2nd letter and S as the 3rd letter

The fixed pattern is _IS__, so the first and last letters do the remaining work. Familiar choices include VISIT, RISKS, RISES, and AISLE, but only 20 entries fall within the common-word group. That mix makes this pattern easier to recognize than to exhaust from memory; the ending gives you a useful next filter.

How many 5-letter words have I 2nd and S 3rd?

• There are 82 tournament-dictionary entries matching _IS__.
• VISIT, LISTS, RISKS, RISES, and RISKY are recognizable examples.
• The most frequent listed ending is S, with 34 words; Y follows with 13.
• FISHY, PISKY, and JISMS each score 14 points on the scoring scale.

Which endings narrow down the _IS__ pattern?

Start with the last tile: 34 of these words end in S, while 13 end in Y. LISTS, RISKS, and RISES show the S ending; RISKY and FISHY show the Y group. If your clue already fixes the final letter, those two endings account for more than half the available entries.

Other endings split into smaller groups: E and O each appear 7 times, while N and R each appear 4 times. AISLE is a familiar E-ending example, and DISCO gives you an O ending. These patterns are counts of final letters, not a complete list of every possible ending.

How to use 5-letter I-2nd, S-3rd words

For Wordle, 15 matches also appear in the answer list, and all 15 are in tournament dictionaries. The full set of 82 is allowed as guesses, so a match in a word-game list does not mean it is an answer-list entry.

Scoring gives a different angle: FISHY, PISKY, and JISMS lead at 14 points each. WISPY scores 13, while RISKY, KISSY, DISHY, MISCH, and FISKS each score 12. The top-scoring choices are less familiar than VISIT or AISLE, so check your game's dictionary before building a play around one.

Dictionary coverage is not identical: Collins lists 81 matches, NWL2023 lists 62, and ENABLE lists 61. Those sets overlap, so their counts do not add up to the 82-word total. Only 20 entries are common by the frequency cutoff; expect unfamiliar options among the rest.