5-letter words with P as the 1st letter and T as the 4th letter

A T in the fourth slot reaches two different families. Party, photo, pasta and plate are everyday nouns, while potty, petty, patty and putty double their middle T on the way to a Y ending. Twenty-nine matches close on S and 17 on Y, and 13 of the 72 are Wordle answers.

The P-T pattern at a glance

• P first with T fourth covers 72 five-letter matches.
• Twenty-nine end in S and 17 in Y, which is 46 of the 72 between them.
• Four matches are -TTY forms: patty, petty, potty and putty.
• Thirteen are Wordle answers and 19 count as common words.
• Plotz tops the scores at 16, and ten other matches reach 10.

The Y ending and the -TTY family

Seventeen matches close on Y, and four of them share a -TTY shape: patty, petty, potty and putty. In each case the doubled T sits in the middle slots, giving the pattern a clear visual signature whenever a grid shows a final Y.

Party, pasty, piety, pouty and peaty fill out the Y group without the doubled T. Against them, S closes 29 matches, so those two endings account for 46 of the 72 entries together. The ending is the first thing to read on any grid that already shows a P and a T.

Which P-T words score highest?

Plotz leads at 16 on its Z, and nothing else clears 13. Ten matches then tie on 10, among them party, photo, petty, patty, potty, putty, piety and pasty, so the middle of the scoring table is unusually crowded.

That flatness is the limitation. Only one match beats 13 and the average is 8.1, so the group rewards placement rather than tile value. With 19 common words, though, it stays easy to play from memory.