5-Letter Words Matching _ _ A I _

97 valid 5-letter words match the pattern _ _ A I _, 27 of which are common words. 2 green letters locked in.

27 common words97 valid words

Common Words (27)

Words most likely to be the answer.

drain
stair
flair
train
trait
claim
snail
brain
stain
braid
avail
chair
plaid
again
slain
plain
frail
trail
flail
grain
quail
grail
chain
email
plait
await
staid

Other Valid 5-Letter Words (70)

Valid as guesses, but unlikely to be the answer.

adair
alain
alair
amain
apaid
apair
arain
blain
blair
brail
chaim
chais
chait
claik
clair
coaid
craie
craig
craik
crain
deair
drail
drais
dwain
elaic
elain
elais
flain
fraid
fraik
ghain
glaik
glair
graig
graip
idaic
khair
krait
ngaio
niais
owain
phaih
phail
ptain
quais
shaia
skail
skair
slait
smaik
smail
spaid
spaik
spail
spain
spair
spait
staia
staig
stail
staio
swail
swain
thain
thais
traik
twain
twait
unais
vraic

What These Words Have in Common

Letter patterns across all 97 matches.

Most common letters

a97
i97
r37
l35
s30
n28
t22
c16
p15
d14

Vowel distribution

  • 0 with no vowels
  • 0 with 1 unique vowel
  • 84 with 2 unique vowels
  • 13 with 3+ unique vowels

Most common endings

  • -in · 24 words
  • -il · 16 words
  • -ir · 13 words
  • -it · 8 words
  • -id · 7 words

Strategy

27 answers fit. Look at the most common remaining letters above and choose a guess that probes the unknown positions.

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