5 Letter Words Ending in EN
Here are all 58 5 letter words ending in EN, from a standard word-game dictionary, with everyday words first. 17 of them are common words; the rest are rarer but still valid in most word games. Use the Wordle helper to add the letters you know.
Most of these words start with W, R, L. Good picks with five different letters include women, given, often, taken.
- Words found
- 58
- Most used
- women
- Most common first letter
- W
Wordle helper: 5 letter words ending in EN
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Common 5 letter words ending in EN
| # | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | women | an adult female person (as opposed to a man) |
| 2 | given | acknowledged as a supposition |
| 3 | often | many times at short intervals |
| 4 | taken | understood in a certain way; made sense of |
| 5 | green | of the color between blue and yellow in the color spectrum; similar to the color of fresh grass |
| 6 | seven | being one more than six |
| 7 | queen | the only fertile female in a colony of social insects such as bees and ants and termites |
| 8 | dozen | the cardinal number that is the sum of eleven and one |
| 9 | alien | not contained in or deriving from the essential nature of something |
| 10 | eaten | take in solid food |
| 11 | haven | a shelter serving as a place of safety or sanctuary |
| 12 | risen | move upward |
| 13 | token | an individual instance of a type of symbol |
| 14 | raven | obtain or seize by violence |
| 15 | laden | filled with a great quantity |
| 16 | linen | a fabric woven with fibers from the flax plant |
| 17 | woven | made or constructed by interlacing threads or strips of material or other elements into a whole |
| 18 | siren | a sea nymph (part woman and part bird) supposed to lure sailors to destruction on the rocks where the nymphs... |
| 19 | aspen | any of several trees of the genus Populus having leaves on flattened stalks so that they flutter in the... |
| 20 | woken | be awake, be alert, be there |
| 21 | sheen | the visual property of something that shines with reflected light |
| 22 | widen | become broader or wider or more extensive |
| 23 | lumen | a unit of luminous flux equal to the amount of light given out through a solid angle of 1 steradian by a... |
| 24 | coven | an assembly of witches; usually 13 witches |
| 25 | vixen | a malicious woman with a fierce temper |
| 26 | maven | someone who is dazzlingly skilled in any field |
| 27 | olden | long past |
| 28 | riven | tear or be torn violently |
| 29 | ripen | cause to ripen or develop fully |
| 30 | liven | make lively |
| 31 | liken | consider or describe as similar, equal, or analogous |
| 32 | ashen | anemic looking from illness or emotion; ; ; ; ; - Mary W. Shelley |
| 33 | rumen | the first compartment of the stomach of a ruminant |
| 34 | waken | cause to become awake or conscious |
| 35 | doyen | a man who is the senior member of a group |
| 36 | preen | clean with one's bill |
| 37 | oaken | consisting of or made of wood of the oak tree |
| 38 | mizen | third mast from the bow in a vessel having three or more masts |
| 39 | waxen | made of or covered with wax |
| 40 | numen | a spirit believed to inhabit an object or preside over a place (especially in ancient Roman religion) |
5 letter words ending in en, by first letter
A (3)
- alien
- aspen
- ashen
C (2)
- coven
- cozen
D (3)
- dozen
- doyen
- daven
E (1)
- eaten
G (2)
- given
- green
H (3)
- haven
- hymen
- hosen
L (7)
- laden
- linen
- lumen
- liven
- liken
- leben
- loden
M (2)
- maven
- mizen
N (2)
- nomen
- numen
O (4)
- often
- olden
- oaken
- oaten
P (2)
- preen
- paten
Q (1)
- queen
R (7)
- risen
- raven
- rouen
- riven
- ripen
- rumen
- rowen
S (5)
- seven
- siren
- sheen
- skeen
- syren
T (4)
- taken
- token
- tween
- treen
V (1)
- vixen
W (7)
- women
- woven
- woken
- widen
- waken
- waxen
- wheen
Y (1)
- yamen
Z (1)
- zazen
More 5 letter word lists
ending in A ending in B ending in C ending in D ending in E ending in F ending in G ending in H ending in I ending in K ending in L ending in M ending in N ending in O ending in P ending in R ending in S ending in T ending in U ending in W ending in X ending in Y ending in Z ending in AE ending in AL ending in AN ending in AR ending in AT ending in CE ending in DE
Questions people ask
How many 5 letter words ending in EN are there?
This list has 58, taken from a standard word-game dictionary and limited to words seen in real English text.
What are common 5 letter words ending in EN?
women, given, often, taken, green, seven, queen, dozen.
Which 5 letter words ending in EN are good Wordle guesses?
women, given, often, taken, dozen, alien use five different letters, so each guess tests more of the alphabet.
Source: the ENABLE word list (a public-domain dictionary used for word games), ranked by how often each word appears in English text (the open wordfreq project), with short meanings from Princeton WordNet. Offensive words are left out.