5-letter words with O as the 2nd letter and G as the 4th letter

The pattern is _ O _ G _, with the O fixed in slot two and G in slot four. Songs, tough, rough, lodge, and cough are recognizable matches; the full set also includes less familiar forms. Collins lists all 71, while NWL2023 includes 51 and ENABLE includes 48, so the game dictionary matters when you narrow a guess.

Quick facts about this letter pattern

• There are 71 tournament-dictionary words matching _ O _ G _.
• The most frequent final letters are E and S, with 16 words apiece.
• Y is next with 12 matches; H and O each finish 8.
• B and P lead as first letters, with 9 words each.

5-letter words with O as the 2nd letter and G as the 4th letter

The 71 matches split across many beginnings, but B and P tie at 9 each. D follows with 7, while C and L each start 6. Try a likely first letter only after your known O and G are locked into place; the first-letter counts give you a compact way to compare candidates.

Endings E and S tie at 16, so the final tile often separates otherwise plausible guesses. Words such as lodge, forge, and rouge end in E; songs and longs end in S. The 16 common words are only part of the full tournament list, so an unfamiliar match is not automatically invalid.

The contrast is sharp with E in slot four: that pattern has 436 five-letter matches, compared with 71 here. If your fourth tile is uncertain, testing E instead of G opens a much larger set; keep G fixed when the clue confirms it.

Which matches matter for Wordle and word scores?

This pattern has 17 Wordle answer matches and 71 allowed guesses. That makes the fixed letters a strong filter, but not every dictionary entry is an answer candidate. When solving, use the final letter and the remaining open slot to distinguish the matching answers rather than treating all 71 guesses alike.

Foggy scores 13 points, the highest-scoring match; hough follows at 12. The average score across the set is 8.8. Foggy is a memorable high scorer, but unusual entries such as jongs and jougs also reach 13, so check your game's word list before relying on a less familiar play.