Pattern library

5-Letter Words with 4 Vowels

Words with four vowels are the skeleton keys of Wordle: one guess can reveal almost your entire vowel layout. There aren't many of them, which makes a complete list genuinely useful — you can hold the whole set in your head.

Every word below was computed from our dictionary — no filler, no guesses. If your puzzle has four vowels, your answer is very likely on this page.

11exact word count
Amost common start (7 words)
Emost common end (4 words)
4.0avg vowels per word

The full list — 11 words

Letter frequency by position

Position 1A 7 C 1 E 1
Position 2E 3 U 3 I 2
Position 3R 3 O 2 D 2
Position 4I 6 E 3 L 1
Position 5E 4 I 3 A 2

Computed from the 9 words on this page. Use the most frequent letters for high-information guesses.

  • aalii
  • adieu
  • aecia
  • aerie
  • aioli
  • audio
  • aurei
  • cooee
  • eerie
  • oidia
  • queue
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.