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

This is the largest pattern in the L-second family, and most of it comes from blended openings. SL- and FL- each start sixteen words, CL- fifteen, BL- fourteen and GL- thirteen, so five letter pairs cover seventy-four of the 106. Everyday vocabulary is dense too: thirty-two words rank as common, and thirty-five sit on Wordle's answer list.

The L-second, I-third set in numbers

• 106 5-letter words match the pattern.
• SL- and FL- open sixteen words each, and CL- opens fifteen.
• Thirty-five are Wordle answers, about a third of the group.
• Thirty-two count as common English and 84 carry a definition.
• BLITZ scores 16, the best total in the list.

Blends explain why the list runs so long

English loves a consonant plus L at the front of a short word, and the I in the third slot keeps the vowel bright. That is why SLIDE, SLICK, SLIME, BLIND, BLINK, CLIMB, FLINT and GLIDE all share the shape. The five big openings, SL-, FL-, CL-, BL- and GL-, account for 74 of the 106 entries.

Endings spread almost as widely as openings. Twenty-six words close on S and twenty-one on E, so the pattern rarely finishes the same way twice.

Wordle answers and the highest scores

Thirty-five of the 106 are Wordle answers, and the group is full of familiar candidates: ALIVE, BLIND, ELITE, OLIVE, SLIDE, CLICK, CLIMB, FLINT and BLITZ all appear. All 106 are accepted guesses, so nothing here is rejected outright.

Scoring leans on the Z and K tiles. BLITZ reaches 16, GLITZ and KLICK 15, and FLICK and CLICK 14 and 13. BLIMY, GLIFF and FLIMP share 12, which keeps the leaderboard crowded.

Guessing a blended L word