5-Letter Words With F as the Second Letter
There are 14 five-letter words with F as the second letter in our dictionary; 9 of them are common words.
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All 14 words
- offer11 points
- after8 points
- often8 points
- affix18 points
- offed12 points
- afoot8 points
- offal11 points
- afire8 points
- afoul8 points
- afore8 points
- afrit8 points
- ofays11 points
- afars8 points
- ofter8 points
Quick facts
- Total words: 14
- By usage: 6 very common, 3 common, 5 rare
Highest scoring (classic tiles)
- affix 18
- offed 12
- ofays 11
- offal 11
- offer 11
- afars 8
- afire 8
- afoot 8
- afore 8
- afoul 8
Most common
- offer
- after
- often
- affix
- offed
- afoot
- offal
- afire
- afoul
- afore
Definitions
- offer (noun)
- The verbal act of offering.
- after (adjective)
- Located farther aft.
- often (adverb)
- Many times at short intervals.
- affix (noun)
- A linguistic element added to a word to produce an inflected or derived form.
Here is the complete list of five-letter words with F as the second letter: 14 words in total. We sort common words to the top because they are the ones you are most likely to be looking for, whether you are solving a puzzle or checking a play. Words such as OFFER and AFTER lead the way. If you need something more specific, the search box accepts your own letters with question marks for blanks and applies this page's constraint automatically.
How to use this page
Type your letters into the box at the top, including a question mark for any blank, and press search to filter this list to the words you can spell. Or read the list as it is: common words come first, scores are shown on each chip, and any word with a link has its own page of sub-words and anagrams.
Tips
If you know some letters of a word and their positions, a pattern search finds it faster than scanning a list. Open the word finder, type the word with question marks for the unknown letters, and every match appears immediately. You can combine a pattern with the starts-with and ends-with filters to narrow the set further. This works for crosswords, for daily five-letter puzzles and for any tile game where a board word gives you two or three fixed letters.
Questions
What is the highest-scoring word among the five-letter words with F as the second letter?
AFFIX scores 18 points with classic tile values, ignoring board multipliers. The full top ten is in the quick facts above; switch the tile set on the search tool if you play with different letter values.
Why are some of these words unfamiliar?
5 of the 14 words on this page are tagged rare, meaning they fall outside the usual spell-check vocabulary. They are still real words, and many are legal plays, but you should expect a challenge if someone asks you to define them.