5-letter words with P as the 1st letter and O as the 2nd letter

The fixed PO opening narrows a five-letter search to 147 tournament-dictionary entries. Familiar choices include POINT, POWER, POUND, and PORCH, but only 28 entries sit among the most frequent English words. Wordle intersects the pattern in 17 answer-list words that also appear in a tournament dictionary, so the pool spans everyday guesses and specialist vocabulary; that gap between the full pool and common subset is the key practical caution.

At a glance: the PO pattern

• The pattern has 147 five-letter matches across the tournament dictionaries.
• Collins includes 145 matches, NWL2023 includes 91, and ENABLE includes 80.
• Only 28 matches fall among the most frequent English words.
• The average score across the pattern is 9.7 points.
• The 17 Wordle answer-list matches are also tournament-dictionary entries; all 147 are allowed guesses.

Which letters end these PO words most often?

S is the leading final letter: 44 matches end in S, compared with 29 ending in Y. For a crossing clue, testing S covers 15 more entries than testing Y.

E closes 18 words, while D ends 10 and A ends 8. O, R, and T each appear at the end of 6 words. S and Y together account for 73 of the 147 matches, just under half.

The 147 total is a union, not a promise that every game accepts every entry: Collins has 145 matches, NWL2023 has 91, and ENABLE has 80. Those counts overlap, so do not add them. Check your game's word list before playing an unfamiliar entry.

Using 5-letter words with P first and O second

For Wordle, the pattern has 17 answer-list matches and 147 allowed guesses. Answer eligibility and everyday frequency are different filters; the 28 common entries are only a small slice of the full pool.

For Scrabble, POCKY and PONZU each score 16, while POPPY scores 14. Familiar options such as POINT and POWER are easier to recognize, but the less familiar K and Z words offer stronger letter scores. Board multipliers still matter more than face value.

Use the final letter to narrow a clue before reaching for an obscure entry: S and Y lead this set by a wide margin. The PO opening alone is not enough to identify one answer, but combining it with that ending pattern quickly cuts the choices.