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

The pattern is M _ _ H _, with the middle letters doing the real work. Familiar matches include MIGHT, MATHS, MACHO, MOCHA, and MOTHS; less familiar options include MOCHY and MICHT. Five entries rank among the top 25,000 English words by frequency.

The M _ _ H _ pattern at a glance

• Exactly 26 tournament-dictionary entries match M _ _ H _.
• Five entries rank among the top 25,000 English words by frequency.
• Seven words end in S; six end in Y, the leading final letters.
• Collins accepts 24 matches, NWL2023 accepts 19, and ENABLE accepts 15.
• MYTHY scores 16 Scrabble points; MOCHY follows at 15.

Which matches are easiest to recognize?

MIGHT, MATHS, MYTHS, MACHO, MOTHS, and MOCHA are familiar options. Check their middle letters against your clues before trying less common entries.

S and Y account for 13 matches; A, I, and O each end three. E and T each appear twice at the end, making S- and Y-ending candidates more common.

How do dictionary and score differences affect play?

Four matches are Wordle answers, and all four also occur in tournament dictionaries. All 26 are allowed guesses, but an accepted guess is not necessarily an answer.

MYTHY scores 16 Scrabble points and MOCHY scores 15. Familiar MIGHT trails those high scorers. Most entries are not among the five frequency-ranked common words, so check your game’s word list before playing a specialist form.

Compare nearby letter patterns

Keep H fourth and change the first letter: 22 matches begin with S, compared with 26 beginning with M. Keep M first and change H’s position instead, and 125 matches have E fourth while 64 have I fourth.

S and Y are the most frequent endings in this set. Collins, NWL2023, and ENABLE do not accept identical counts, so a specialist entry may fail in your game. These 5-letter words with M first and H fourth narrow the pattern, not the dictionary.