Word list

4 Letter Words

The everyday workhorses — short enough to place anywhere, long enough to score.

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8,218 four-letter words4 letters eachScores 4 to 31The everyday workhorses

Counts cover all our supported word lists combined; validity can vary by list and region.

Why 4 letter words are useful

Four letters is the most flexible length in the game.

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Four-letter words are the workhorses of tile games: they fit most boards, use few tiles, and leave your rack in good shape.

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In anagram and jumble puzzles, four letters is the classic warm-up length — quick to see, satisfying to solve.

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Crosswords are full of four-letter fills, so a stock of common ones speeds up every grid.

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Strong four-letter words often outscore lazy six-letter plays: quiz is 22 points and jazz is 29.

Useful 4 letter words

Featured 4-letter words with standard tile scores.

A curated starter set of 81 useful 4-letter words. Linked words open a full dictionary page with meanings, scores, and validity.

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High-value 4 letter words

Four tiles, double-figure scores.

Scores are standard letter-tile values — board bonuses vary by game. All of these are valid on our game lists.

4 letter words from letters

Finding the four-letter finds in any hand.

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Type your letters into the word unscrambler — the 4-letter group sits near the middle of the results, sorted by score.

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A seven-tile rack usually hides dozens of four-letter words; the finder surfaces them all at once.

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Add a ? for a blank tile and the finder tries every letter in its place. Blanks score zero.

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Playing a specific game? The Scrabble word finder and Words With Friends helper run the same engine with game-list validity.

4 letter word patterns

Starts, endings, and doubles worth knowing.

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S leads four-letter starting letters with 706 words, ahead of B (512), T (488) and C (468) across our combined lists.

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Endings do the heavy lifting: 116 four-letter words end in -ES and 87 in -ED, while 73 start with RE-.

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Double letters are everywhere at four: ball, bell, book, cool, door, hill.

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Spot a three-letter stem and grow it — an S, a D or an R on the right end turns one word into two.

Try it with STOP

One set of four letters, six different words.

S T O P rearranges into six different four-letter words in our combined lists — STOP, SPOT, POST, POTS, TOPS and OPTS — all worth 6 points on standard tile values. Run stop through the anagram solver to see them together.

Browse 4 letter words by letter

Focused four-letter lists from our dictionary — every link opens a full reference page with counts, scores, and meanings.

Starting with a letter: Starting with A (115) · Starting with B (186) · Starting with C (167) · Starting with D (155) · Starting with E (59) · Starting with F (119) · Starting with G (121) · Starting with H (113) · Starting with I (32) · Starting with J (40) · Starting with K (60) · Starting with L (146) · Starting with M (149) · Starting with N (62) · Starting with O (46) · Starting with P (168) · Starting with R (120) · Starting with S (260) · Starting with T (165) · Starting with V (42) · Starting with W (102) · Starting with Y (32)

Ending in a letter: Ending in A (148) · Ending in B (54) · Ending in D (152) · Ending in E (396) · Ending in F (55) · Ending in G (76) · Ending in H (78) · Ending in I (60) · Ending in K (163) · Ending in L (160) · Ending in M (85) · Ending in N (143) · Ending in O (97) · Ending in P (113) · Ending in R (90) · Ending in S (108) · Ending in T (260) · Ending in U (34) · Ending in W (39) · Ending in Y (137)

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Good to know

Quick answers about 4 letter words.

What are 4 letter words?+
Any valid word of exactly four letters. Our combined word lists include 8,218 — from everyday workhorses like game, book and fire to scorers like jazz (29 points).
How do I find 4 letter words from my letters?+
Enter your letters in the word unscrambler and read the 4-letter group. Every result shows its standard tile score.
Are 4 letter words good plays in tile games?+
Often the best value on the board: they use few tiles, fit almost anywhere, and the strong ones — quiz (22), jinx (18) — outscore many longer plays.
Can I use blanks or wildcards to find 4 letter words?+
Yes — add a ? for each blank tile and the finder tries every letter in its place. Blanks score zero.
What patterns should I learn first?+
The -ES and -ED endings, RE- starts, and common doubles like ball and book. Patterns turn one remembered word into a family of plays.