Pattern library

5-Letter Words Ending in ING

An -ING ending leaves only two letters to find — this is one of the smallest search spaces in Wordle. The list is short enough to read in one glance.

Every 5-letter word ending in ING, computed from our dictionary. If ING is locked in, your answer is a few lines below.

35exact word count
Amost common start (5 words)
Gmost common end (35 words)
1.5avg vowels per word

The full list — 35 words

Letter frequency by position

Position 1A 5 B 4 S 4
Position 2Y 6 L 4 W 3
Position 3I 35
Position 4N 35
Position 5G 35

Computed from the 13 words on this page. Use the most frequent letters for high-information guesses.

  • acing
  • aging
  • aping
  • awing
  • axing
  • being
  • bling
  • boing
  • bring
  • ching
  • cling
  • cuing
  • dding
  • doing
  • dying
  • eking
  • eying
  • fling
  • going
  • hying
  • icing
  • lying
  • oping
  • owing
  • piing
  • ruing
  • sling
  • sting
  • suing
  • swing
  • thing
  • tying
  • using
  • vying
  • wring
How this list was made. Every word above was computed from the SCOWL en_US-large word list (123,247 English words) using the exact filter for this page — no hand-picking, no padding, no guessing. Counts are exact. The list includes some uncommon and Scrabble-style words because the source dictionary is comprehensive; that is by design.