5-letter words with R as the 2nd letter and L as the 4th letter

The pattern _ R _ L _ leaves 25 five-letter candidates in the tournament lists. Familiar examples include TRULY, DRILL, GRILL, and TROLL, but the set also contains less everyday forms such as BRILL and TRILL. Just 4 qualify as common by frequency, so a familiar-looking pattern does not guarantee a familiar answer.

5-letter words with R as the 2nd letter and L as the 4th letter

• There are 25 matches in at least one tournament dictionary.
• Collins includes all 25; ENABLE and NWL2023 each include 19.
• Only 4 matches meet the common-word frequency cutoff.
• Nine matches are Wordle answers, and all nine appear in tournament dictionaries.
• Final L is most frequent: 11 words end in L; E, S, and Y each end 4.

What endings do these five-letter words use?

The final letter is L for 11 of the 25 matches, making DRILL, GRILL, TROLL, BRILL, TRILL, KRILL, and FRILL a substantial cluster. That repeated ending can narrow a clue quickly, but it does not distinguish the words from one another.

The other leading endings are E, S, and Y, with 4 words apiece. BRULE ends in E, ARILS in S, and TRULY in Y. At the other end of each word, D and T lead with 5 starting letters each; A and P contribute 3 apiece.

How should you use the pattern in Wordle or Scrabble?

Nine of these matches appear in the Wordle answer list, while all 25 are allowed guesses. The answer overlap is small enough that the pattern narrows a solve without identifying a single answer. For a board game, WRYLY tops the score list at 14 points, followed by DRYLY at 12.

For 5-letter words with R as the 2nd letter and L as the 4th letter, the average score is 7.1. Dictionary coverage is not uniform: Collins has 25 matches, compared with 19 each in ENABLE and NWL2023. Only 4 entries are common by frequency, so check your game's word list before relying on an unfamiliar form.