5-letter words with S as the 4th letter and H as the 5th letter

Every match ends in the -SH digraph, so the fixed pair turns the list into one broad family of five-letter -SH words. S opens 16 entries and F opens 7, while A, B, C, P and W take four each. Eighteen entries sit inside the 25,000 most common English words, making this a friendlier set than most pattern lists.

What the S-H shape gives you

• All 61 matches end in -SH, with S fourth and H fifth.
• Twenty-seven are Wordle answers, from awash and blush to swish and trash.
• Quash and qursh share the top Scrabble score at 17 points each.
• Eighteen matches rank inside the 25,000 most common English words.
• Collins keeps 59 of the 61; NWL2023 keeps 45 and ENABLE keeps 41.

Which -SH words are Wordle answers?

Twenty-seven of the 61 appear on the answer list, close to half. The -ASH run alone supplies 13 of them, including clash, crash, flash, slash, smash, stash and trash, and the -USH run adds the seven words blush, brush, crush, flush, plush, slush and shush.

The remaining answers land in smaller pockets: brash and harsh close in -RSH, flesh and fresh in -ESH, with slosh, welsh and swish each covering a run of their own. That leaves 34 matches that are legal guesses but never answers.

5-letter words with S as the 4th letter and H as the 5th letter

Quash and qursh lead at 17 points, both carried by a 10-point Q, and whish follows on 14. The average is 10.2, lifted by the four-point H that every word contains.

Dictionary coverage is uneven: Collins holds 59 of the 61, NWL2023 holds 45 and ENABLE holds 41, so a word accepted in one game can be missing from another. Check your game's word list once before you commit to an unfamiliar form.