5-Letter Words With Double Letters

We've put together a list of 1,186 5-letter words with a double letter, the same letter twice in a row, for word games like Scrabble and Words with Friends. That is 13% of the 8,909 5-letter words in the Scrabble dictionary.

Words like Boffo, Fizzy, Leery, Quass and Toots are on the list. The commonest double letters are O (214 words), E (206 words) and L (172 words). The pair most often fills the third and fourth boxes, in 682 of the words. The highest scoring is Jiffy, Zappy and Zippy, worth 21 points without any bonuses.

If Wordle has shown you a yellow or green letter and you think it may appear twice in a row, this is the list to scan. The Scrabble dictionary is bigger than Wordle's own word lists, so not every word here will be a Wordle answer; our Wordle Cheat narrows the list down with the other clues you have.