5-letter words with T as the 3rd letter and O as the 4th letter

Locking in T and O in these positions narrows a five-letter search to 45 tournament-dictionary words. Familiar picks include ACTOR, MOTOR, TUTOR, and BATON; the rest range from ROTOR to specialist entries. The ending is a useful clue, too: N and S together account for nearly half of the matches.

At a glance: the T-O pattern

• 45 five-letter words have T in position three and O in position four.
• Collins contains 42 matches, compared with 36 in NWL2023 and 32 in ENABLE.
• Only 9 of these words rank among the commonest English words.
• The final letters N and S appear in 12 and 10 words, respectively.
• ACTOR, MOTOR, TUTOR, BATON, and ROTOR are recognizable examples.

Which T-O words fit Wordle?

Seven words matching this pattern are Wordle answers, and 44 are allowed guesses. That gap matters: a word accepted as a guess is not necessarily in the answer list. The answer names are not included here, so use the pattern to narrow your grid rather than treating every match as a likely solution.

The first letter gives you another filter. B begins 6 matches, while R begins 5; A and P each begin 4.

If your clues rule out those starts, ACTOR, BATON, and ROTOR drop away quickly. Keep the fixed T and O positions in place as you test other letters.

5-letter words with T as the 3rd letter and O as the 4th letter

N is the most frequent ending, with 12 words, followed by S with 10 and R with 7. That makes endings such as -TON and -TOR worth checking when your final clue is uncertain. Examples include BATON, ACTOR, and ROTOR; the pattern does not force a single ending.

BOTOX is the top scorer at 14 points, followed by DETOX at 13; EXTOL, JETON, KOTOW, and JATOS each score 12. Those choices beat everyday ACTOR or MOTOR on tile value, but the rarer words need a dictionary check for your game. Across all matches, the average score is 7.3.