5-Letter Words Ending in TE
80 five-letter words end in TE; 33 of them are common words, shown in bold. Common words are where Wordle answers come from.
Best Wordle guesses
Ranked by how many green and yellow tiles each word turns up, on average, against the common words Wordle answers come from.
| # | Word | Green | Yellow |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | carte | 0.55 | 1.22 |
| 2 | crate | 0.58 | 1.18 |
| 3 | slate | 0.61 | 1.10 |
| 4 | grate | 0.54 | 1.16 |
| 5 | caste | 0.50 | 1.14 |
| 6 | haste | 0.45 | 1.18 |
| 7 | route | 0.49 | 1.13 |
| 8 | paste | 0.48 | 1.11 |
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80 words ending in TE
- statecommon
- whitecommon
- quitecommon
- wrotecommon
- writecommon
- wastecommon
- tastecommon
- routecommon
- platecommon
- quotecommon
- elitecommon
- suitecommon
- spitecommon
- acutecommon
- pastecommon
- unitecommon
- slatecommon
- skatecommon
- montecommon
- castecommon
- flutecommon
- mattecommon
- cratecommon
- brutecommon
- hastecommon
- lattecommon
- fortecommon
- hautecommon
- chutecommon
- contecommon
- gratecommon
- cartecommon
- buttecommon
- lotte
- smite
- comte
- agate
- trite
- spate
- irate
- abate
- ovate
- motte
- emote
- saute
- volte
- baste
- piste
- shute
- smote
- torte
- geste
- arete
- boite
- flite
- urate
- flyte
- sente
- scute
- evite
All 80 five-letter words
Starting with A 7
abate acute agate alate arete axite azote
Starting with B 6
baste blate blite boite brute butte
Starting with C 6
carte caste chute comte conte crate
Starting with E 6
elate elite elute emote enate evite
Starting with F 5
flite flute flyte forte fytte
Starting with G 2
geste grate
Starting with H 2
haste haute
Starting with I 1
irate
Starting with L 2
latte lotte
Starting with M 4
matte monte moste motte
Starting with O 2
orate ovate
Starting with P 4
paste piste plate prate
Starting with Q 3
quate quite quote
Starting with R 3
rente rotte route
Starting with S 15
saute scute sente shote shute sixte skate skite slate smite smote spate spite state suite
Starting with T 3
taste torte trite
Starting with U 2
unite urate
Starting with V 1
volte
Starting with W 4
waste white write wrote
Starting with Y 1
yente
Starting with Z 1
zlote
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Questions people ask
How many five-letter words end in TE?
Our list has 80. 33 of them are common everyday words; the rest are rarer words you are more likely to meet in Scrabble or a crossword than in conversation. The list is a public-domain English word list, sorted by how often each word appears in everyday writing.
What are the most common five-letter words that end in TE?
STATE, WHITE, QUITE, WROTE, WRITE — in that order, by how often they appear in everyday English.
What is the best Wordle guess that ends in TE?
CARTE. Against the common five-letter words Wordle draws its answers from, it turns up 0.55 green and 1.22 yellow tiles on average — more than any other word on this list. The method is the same as on our Best Wordle Starting Words page.