Vowel-heavy · 28 words
Five-Letter Words Heavy in Vowels
Five-letter English words with four or more vowels: 28 entries. Top picks for Wordle opening guesses. There are 28 entries in this list.
Use this list when you're solving LexSweep, Wordle, or any other five-letter word puzzle. Every entry below is a valid five-letter English word from the standard corpus.
First 24
- AALII
- ADIEU
- AECIA
- AERIE
- AIDOI
- AINEE
- AIOLI
- AQUAE
- AREAE
- AUDIO
- AULOI
- AURAE
- AUREI
- BOOAI
- COOEE
- EERIE
- LOOIE
- LOUIE
- MIAOU
- OIDIA
- OORIE
- OUIJA
- OURIE
- QUEUE
All 28 words
- AALII
- ADIEU
- AECIA
- AERIE
- AIDOI
- AINEE
- AIOLI
- AQUAE
- AREAE
- AUDIO
- AULOI
- AURAE
- AUREI
- BOOAI
- COOEE
- EERIE
- LOOIE
- LOUIE
- MIAOU
- OIDIA
- OORIE
- OUIJA
- OURIE
- QUEUE
- URAEI
- ZOAEA
- ZOEAE
- ZOOEA
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FAQ
How many five-letter words have four or more vowels?
There are 28 five-letter English words matching this pattern, drawn from a corpus of 12,653 valid five-letter words in standard usage.
Are these valid Wordle answers?
Most are valid Wordle guesses (the Wordle dictionary contains roughly 13,000 five-letter words). However, only ~2,300 of those have ever appeared as the daily answer. All listed words are valid five-letter English entries; their answer-eligibility depends on the Wordle editorial list.
How are the words ordered?
Alphabetical. We do not rank by frequency on this page — for the most common starters, see the "Five-letter words with most vowels" or "Five-letter words with no repeated letters" pages, which are the canonical openers.
Can I use this list for LexSweep?
Yes. LexSweep uses standard 5-letter English words. Any entry here is fair game as a guess in the daily word square puzzle.