5-Letter Words With I and J
There are 40 five-letter words containing both I and J in our dictionary; 21 of them are common words.
Type your own letters to find only the 5-letter words you can make, or leave it empty to open this list in the word finder.
All 40 words
- joins12 points
- joint12 points
- juice14 points
- jiffy21 points
- juicy17 points
- jibed15 points
- jibes14 points
- jails12 points
- jilts12 points
- jived16 points
- jives15 points
- jimmy19 points
- jihad16 points
- jinni12 points
- joist12 points
- ninja12 points
- jinks16 points
- bijou14 points
- hajji22 points
- jiffs18 points
- kanji16 points
- jivey18 points
- mujik18 points
- jiver15 points
- jerid13 points
- jingo13 points
- jimpy19 points
- hadji16 points
- jibbs16 points
- ajiva15 points
- fujis15 points
- hajis15 points
- shoji15 points
- jiber14 points
- jisms14 points
- djinn13 points
- djins13 points
- jills12 points
- jinns12 points
- rioja12 points
Quick facts
- Total words: 40
- By usage: 9 very common, 12 common, 19 rare
Highest scoring (classic tiles)
- hajji 22
- jiffy 21
- jimmy 19
- jimpy 19
- jiffs 18
- jivey 18
- mujik 18
- juicy 17
- hadji 16
- jibbs 16
Most common
- joins
- joint
- juice
- jiffy
- juicy
- jibed
- jibes
- jails
- jilts
- jived
Definitions
- joint (adjective)
- United or combined.
- juice (noun)
- The liquid part that can be extracted from plant or animal tissue by squeezing or cooking.
- jiffy (noun)
- A very short time (as the time it takes the eye to blink or the heart to beat).
- juicy (adjective)
- Abounding in juice.
Words that contain both I and J come up constantly in tile games, crosswords and daily letter puzzles, and this page gathers all 40 of the five-letter ones. The most useful are the common words at the top of the list; the rare ones at the bottom are worth knowing when you need to hook onto an awkward board position. HAJJI is the top scorer here, worth 22 points before any board multiplier.
How to use this page
Start by scanning the common words at the top; they are the ones most likely to be accepted and remembered. Then check the quick facts for the highest-scoring options. If you have a rack in front of you, the search box applies this page's constraint to your letters and returns only what you can play.
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
How many five-letter words containing both I and J are there?
Our dictionary has 40 five-letter words containing both I and J, of which 21 are common English words. The count comes from the public-domain ENABLE list, so it can differ slightly from the dictionary a particular game uses.
What is the highest-scoring word among the five-letter words containing both I and J?
HAJJI scores 22 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.