5-letter words with R as the 2nd letter and A as the 3rd letter

The 213 matches make this a broad list: 69 are common words, 177 have dictionary definitions and 66 sit on the Wordle answer list. That last figure matters most for puzzle players, because roughly one in three candidates is a word the game will accept as a solution. Spelling splits three ways, with BR-, GR- and TR- starts supplying 91 entries between them.

How many 5-letter words have R second and A third?

• The tournament dictionaries hold 213 words for this pattern.
• Collins includes 210 of them; NWL2023 has 164 and ENABLE 156.
• Sixty-nine are common and 177 carry a definition.
• Sixty-six are Wordle answers, from TRADE to WRACK.
• CRAZY tops the Scrabble table at 19 points.

Which Wordle answers hide in this pattern?

Sixty-six of the 213 words are official answers, a hit rate close to one in three. The opening run of the list reads like a starter set: TRADE, CRAZY, TRACK, TRAIN, BRAIN, GRAND, BRAND, GRADE, FRANK, DRAMA and GRANT all qualify. None of them needs a rare letter, which is why so many appear early in the frequency ranking.

The cluster continues through DRAFT, FRAME, GRACE, CRASH, DRAWN, TRAIL, TRASH and CRACK, then thins as the words become more technical. BRAVE and GRAVE are the last pair most players will recognise. If you have A green in slot three and R green in slot two, guessing from this group is more productive than working through the BRAXY and KRANZ end of the list.

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