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5-letter words with V as the 1st letter and L as the 4th letter

5-letter words with V as the 1st letter and L as the 4th letter number 20, and none of them scores above 11.

20 wordsTop pick VILLAHighest score VEALY 11

3 of 20 are everyday words (15%). A mix of familiar words and game-only finds.

  • 4th letter
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  • D
  • E
  • F
  • G
  • H
  • I
  • J
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  • S
  • T
  • U
  • V
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  • X
  • Y
  • Z

With V in 1st place, E is the most common 4th letter (56 words). The bar under each letter shows the size of its list.

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Best words to play first 20 · most-used first

  • VILLA8
  • VAULT8
  • VIOLA8
  • VIALS8
  • VOILA8
  • VEILS8
  • VILLI8
  • VOILE8
  • VEALE8
  • VIOLS8
  • VILLS8
  • VAILS8
  • VELLS8
  • VEALS8
  • VOULU8
  • VEALY11
  • VEILY11
  • VIOLD9
  • VIRLS8
  • VRILS8
All valid words 20

A to Z. Includes rare and Collins-only words. Linked tiles open the word's meaning, score and rhymes.

  • VAILS8
  • VAULT8
  • VEALE8
  • VEALS8
  • VEALY11
  • VEILS8
  • VEILY11
  • VELLS8
  • VIALS8
  • VILLA8
  • VILLI8
  • VILLS8
  • VIOLA8
  • VIOLD9
  • VIOLS8
  • VIRLS8
  • VOILA8
  • VOILE8
  • VOULU8
  • VRILS8
Letters by positionIn 45% of these words the 5th letter is S.
2nd letter
  1. I40%
  2. E30%
  3. O15%
3rd letter
  1. I30%
  2. A20%
  3. L20%
5th letter
  1. S45%
  2. A15%
  3. Y10%

Highest-scoring words

Scrabble and Words With Friends points, before board bonuses
Score spreadMost of these words score 8 in Scrabble; VEALY tops the list with 11. Scores before board bonuses.
  1. 88 points: 17 words
  2. 9 points: 1 words
  3. 1010 points: 0 words
  4. 11 points: 2 words
WordScrabbleWords With FriendsDictionaries
VEALY1112All three
VEILY1112Collins only
VIOLD911Collins only
VILLA811All three
VAULT811All three
VIOLA810All three
VIALS810All three
VOILA810All three
VEILS810All three
VILLI811All three
VOILE810All three
VEALE810Collins only

V??L?? collects 20 matches, and their scores barely move: 17 sit on exactly 8 points. The openings lean on I and E, which cover 14 of the 20 words. Only three matches, VAULT, VILLA and VIOLA, rank among the 25,000 most common English words.

V??L?? at a glance

  • Twenty matches, all with V first and L fourth.
  • Seventeen score exactly 8 points; the average is 8.3.
  • VEALY and VEILY tie at the top on 11.
  • I opens eight matches and E six, covering 14 of 20.
  • Nine matches close in S, among them VIALS and VILLS.
  • Just three rank among the 25,000 most common words.

Why the scoring sits so flat

VEALY and VEILY share the top score at 11, each on a final Y, and VIOLD reaches 9. Every other match, 17 of them, sits on exactly 8, so the average is only 8.3.

The frame offers no Z, J, Q or X and no doubled high tile. V is worth 4 and L only 1, which caps the whole group before the first guess.

How VI- and VE- dominate the openings

Eight matches begin VI-, from VILLA and VIOLA to VIALS and VILLS, and six begin VE-, among them VEILS, VEALS and VEALY. Together those two openings account for 14 of the 20.

The weaker starts thin out fast: O covers three matches, A two, and R just one, VRILS. V is fixed in the first square, so the second tile is the branch worth testing.

Read the shape as V plus two or three plain tiles and a closing L. VIALS, VEILS and VOILE all fit that skeleton, and only VRILS breaks the vowel run in the middle.

A tail that splits in two

Tip

Nine matches close in S, including VAILS, VEALS, VEILS, VIALS and VILLS. Greening the final S narrows the list almost in half.

Questions people ask

How many 5-letter words have V first and L fourth?
Twenty. They open with VI-, VE-, VO-, VA- or VR-, and I leads with eight. On average they score just 8.3, one of the flattest frames for a word starting with V.
Which V??L?? words are Wordle answers?
Four: VAULT, VILLA, VIOLA and VOILA. The first three also rank among the 25,000 most common words, while VOILA is an answer that stays outside that common list.
Which V??L?? word scores highest in Scrabble?
VEALY and VEILY tie at 11 points, each lifted by a final Y. No other match breaks 9, and VIOLD on 9 is the only word that gets that far.

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