5 letter words containing H
Every five-letter word in the list that contains H — 1,145 of them, printed below. The contains box is already set to H; add a pattern or the letters you have ruled out to cut it down.
Five-letter words that contain H, counted
There are 1,145 of them here, which makes H the sixteenth most common letter inside a five-letter word in this list. That is a different ranking from H as an opener: a letter can be rare at the front and common in the middle.
334 of them start with H; the other 811 have it later. The square it occupies most often is the second (377 of them). 29 use H more than once.
On standard Scrabble tiles the most expensive are WHIZZ (29), HUZZA (26), HAJJI (22). A high score here still means rare letters, not a good first guess — and a yellow H in a puzzle is a placement problem, not a "start with H" problem.
What a yellow H actually tells you
H anywhere is mostly a digraph passenger: CH, SH, TH, WH, PH. A yellow H with S already ruled out is a much shorter page than a yellow H with S still live, because so many of these words are not making an H sound at all.
853 of them use five different letters (ABHOR, ABMHO, ABOHM and ACHED). 111 of them contain a doubled letter (AAHED, AARGH, ACHOO and AHULL). The no-repeat words are the ones that test five letters for the price of one.
26 of them carry three or more vowels (AAHED, ACHOO, AHEAD and ALOHA). Those are the ones to reach for when the letters you have left are mostly vowels. 18 of them manage without A, E, I, O or U (CRWTH, GHYLL, GLYPH and HYMNS).
Using a contains-H list in a puzzle
A yellow tile is not a green tile. These 1,145 candidates have H somewhere; they do not have it locked. Put the squares you have already ruled out into the pattern as dots you then exclude by hand, or type the other confirmed letters into their positions and leave H free.
The opening-H list is a different page — only 334 five-letter words start with H. The second-letter list is different again: 377 have H locked in square two. This URL is the one that matches "contains H" / "with a H in them".
Alphabetically the list here runs from AAHED to ZILCH. Every word on it comes from the same public-domain list the search box queries, so nothing printed here is a word the tool will then refuse to find.
Highest scoring five-letter words that contain H
Standard Scrabble tile values for words that have H somewhere, not only those that open with it. Rare letters still dominate the top of the table.
| Word | Points |
|---|---|
WHIZZ | 29 |
HUZZA | 26 |
HAJJI | 22 |
HAFIZ | 20 |
HAMZA | 19 |
QOPHS | 19 |
ZILCH | 19 |
GHAZI | 18 |
HAZED | 18 |
HEXYL | 18 |
Which square H occupies
How often H sits in each of the five positions, counted across all 1,145 words. A letter that is common in the middle and rare at the end is a placement clue, not just a count.
| Position | Words | Examples |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | 334 | HAAFS, HAARS, HABIT |
| 2 | 377 | AHEAD, AHOLD, AHULL |
| 3 | 69 | AAHED, ABHOR, ACHED |
| 4 | 139 | ABMHO, ABOHM, ALOHA |
| 5 | 255 | AARGH, ABASH, AIRTH |
Common questions
How many 5 letter words contain H?
1,145 in the list used here, which is every five-letter word in the public-domain ENABLE dictionary that includes H, apart from a short blocklist of slurs. Sites using a different dictionary will quote a different number.
Which 5 letter word containing H scores highest?
WHIZZ, at 29 points on standard Scrabble tiles, ahead of HUZZA at 26. Words With Friends values several letters differently, so the order there is not the same.
Do most 5 letter words containing H start with it?
No. 334 of the 1,145 open with H; 811 have it in another square. That is why a yellow H is a different page from "starts with H".
Every word, grouped by how long it is
The complete list at each length. Three letters is a page you memorise; nine is a page you search.
Five-letter words by opening letter
The complete list for each letter, with how many there are. S is a page you scroll; X is a page you read.
- A 497
- B 589
- C 662
- D 455
- E 192
- F 429
- G 414
- H 334
- I 118
- J 133
- K 205
- L 401
- M 443
- N 200
- O 181
- P 565
- Q 53
- R 419
- S 1,053
- T 547
- U 117
- V 161
- W 295
- X 13
- Y 94
- Z 51
Five-letter words by second letter
The same length, a different known square. A is the large page; J is the short one.
- A 1,478
- B 53
- C 122
- D 58
- E 1,063
- F 14
- G 49
- H 377
- I 963
- J 7
- K 55
- L 508
- M 116
- N 239
- O 1,333
- P 150
- Q 12
- R 645
- S 65
- T 166
- U 789
- V 39
- W 97
- X 44
- Y 164
- Z 15
Five-letter words by a letter they contain
A yellow tile, not a green one. E is in most of them; Q and J are the short pages.
- A 3,493
- B 967
- C 1,367
- D 1,566
- E 3,878
- F 689
- G 1,003
- H 1,145
- I 2,423
- J 170
- K 879
- L 2,166
- M 1,220
- N 1,846
- O 2,529
- P 1,275
- Q 75
- R 2,669
- S 3,988
- T 2,082
- U 1,593
- V 455
- W 673
- X 202
- Y 1,321
- Z 211