Pattern library

5-Letter Words Starting with STR

STR is a powerhouse opening cluster — straw, strip, stray. When the first three tiles lock in as S-T-R, the remaining possibilities collapse to a small, knowable set.

This page holds all of them, computed from our dictionary. If STR is your start, your answer is in this list.

12exact word count
Smost common start (12 words)
Pmost common end (4 words)
1.1avg vowels per word

The full list — 12 words

Letter frequency by position

Position 1S 12
Position 2T 12
Position 3R 12
Position 4A 3 O 3 E 2
Position 5P 4 W 3 Y 2

Computed from the 12 words on this page. Use the most frequent letters for high-information guesses.

  • strap
  • straw
  • stray
  • strep
  • strew
  • stria
  • strip
  • strop
  • strow
  • stroy
  • strum
  • strut
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.