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

W third, T fourth, 16 words, and a heavy tilt toward archaic spellings. Eight of them are a shorter -WT entry plus an S, from NEWTS through to TOWTS, and five close on -TH: ROWTH, FOWTH, REWTH, SOWTH and CRWTH. None of the sixteen appears on a Wordle answer list.

A pattern built for Scrabble rather than Wordle

• Sixteen words place W third and T fourth.
• None is a Wordle answer and none qualifies as a common English word.
• Eight end in -TS, five in -TH, two in -TY and one in -TE.
• Collins accepts all 16; NWL2023 and ENABLE accept 6 apiece.
• FOWTH leads at 14 points, with BAWTY and CRWTH on 13.

What does the -WT- cluster look like?

Every match carries W third and T fourth, and the endings bunch tightly. NEWTS, DAWTS, DOWTS, LOWTS, NOWTS, ROWTS, TAWTS and TOWTS all close on -TS, and each one is a shorter entry plus an S; DAWT, LOWT and TOWT are all legal words in their own right.

The -TH family is older still: ROWTH, FOWTH, REWTH, SOWTH and CRWTH. CRWTH is the one to remember, because it holds no A, E, I, O or U at all. Only BAWTY and NOWTY break the pattern by ending in -TY, and VAWTE alone ends in -TE.

Where these words earn their points

FOWTH is the top scorer at 14, BAWTY and CRWTH follow at 13, and ROWTH, NOWTY, REWTH, SOWTH and VAWTE share 11. The average is 10.1, which is decent, but the value comes from the T and the W rather than any single bonus tile.

This is a list for tile games rather than puzzles. With no Wordle answers and no common words, its practical use is a narrow clue filter: if your letters show W and T in those two slots, the field is these sixteen forms. Ten of them are Collins-only, including FOWTH, SOWTH and VAWTE, so a North American challenge will succeed against most of the list.