5 Letter Words With RE

297 words Words by letter Checked 9 Oct 2026

Here are all 297 5 letter words with RE, from a standard word-game dictionary, with everyday words first. 89 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 R, S, C. Good picks with five different letters include great, ready, share, break.

Words found: 297
Most used: there
Most common first letter: R

Wordle helper: 5 letter words with RE

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Common 5 letter words with RE

#	Word	Meaning
1	there	in or at that place
2	great	relatively large in size or number or extent; larger than others of its kind
3	three	being one more than two
4	ready	completely prepared or in condition for immediate action or use or progress
5	share	have in common
6	break	terminate
7	press	exert pressure or force to or upon
8	areas	a particular geographical region of indefinite boundary (usually serving some special purpose or...
9	green	of the color between blue and yellow in the color spectrum; similar to the color of fresh grass
10	store	a mercantile establishment for the retail sale of goods or services
11	agree	be in accord; be in agreement
12	reach	reach a destination, either real or abstract
13	dream	a series of mental images and emotions occurring during sleep
14	fresh	recently made, produced, or harvested
15	score	a number or letter indicating quality (especially of a student's performance)
16	aware	(sometimes followed by `of') having or showing knowledge or understanding or realization or perception
17	dress	put on clothes
18	treat	interact in a certain way
19	tired	depleted of strength or energy
20	trees	force a person or an animal into a position from which he cannot escape
21	fired	start firing a weapon
22	cream	the best people or things in a group
23	trend	a general direction in which something tends to move
24	bread	food made from dough of flour or meal and usually raised with yeast or baking powder and then baked
25	greek	of or relating to or characteristic of Greece or the Greeks or the Greek language
26	reply	react verbally
27	threw	propel through the air
28	refer	make reference to
29	hired	having services engaged for a fee
30	cares	the work of providing treatment for or attending to someone or something
31	creek	a natural stream of water smaller than a river (and often a tributary of a river)
32	arena	a particular environment or walk of life
33	shore	the land along the edge of a body of water
34	relax	become less tense, rest, or take one's ease
35	spare	refrain from harming
36	reads	interpret something that is written or printed
37	screw	someone who guards prisoners
38	bored	tired of the world
39	acres	extensive landed property (especially in the country) retained by the owner for his own use
40	fires	the event of something burning (often destructive)

5 letter words with re, by first letter

A (14)

areas
agree
aware
arena
acres
aired
adore
azure
afire
afore
areal
apres
areca
arete

B (19)

break
bread
bored
breed
brent
barre
brews
brees
beret
bores
bream
bared
borer
bares
blare
breve
brede
byres
barer

C (27)

cream
cares
creek
cared
crews
creep
cured
creed
crest
cores
crore
cures
chore
crept
creme
cadre
crepe
carer
ceres
credo
creak
cress
creel
cored
carex
caret
corer

D (8)

dream
dress
dread
dared
dares
dregs
dreck
drees

E (5)

erect
eared
erred
egret
eyres

F (15)

fresh
fired
fires
freak
freed
fibre
flare
fares
frees
fared
freer
frets
frere
fores
firer

G (13)

great
green
greek
genre
greed
greet
glare
greys
gored
grebe
gores
gyres
grego

H (6)

hired
hires
heres
harem
hares
hirer

I (1)

inure

L (8)

litre
lured
lures
livre
lores
lucre
lares
lyres

M (12)

metre
mares
madre
mores
mired
mitre
morel
moire
murex
mires
meres
mures

N (3)

nares
nacre
nitre

O (5)

ochre
ombre
ogres
outre
oared

P (17)

press
pores
padre
puree
pared
purer
preys
preps
pored
pares
preen
prest
perea
pyres
presa
prese
parer

Q (2)

quire
quare

R (79)

ready
reach
reply
refer
relax
reads
react
rebel
reign
realm
remix
relay
reset
rehab
renew
retro
repay
rests
resin
rents
recap
renal
relic
reuse
reefs
regal
reins
recon
repel
reels
revel
remit
revue
rarer
reeds
reeve
rerun
reeks
redox
redux

39 more in the helper above.

S (33)

share
store
score
shore
spare
screw
scare
stare
spree
swore
shire
siren
shred
snare
spire
sores
sabre
spore
snore
shrew
strep
sired
saree
sires
sucre
scree
sorel
surer
sware
syren
seres
siree
strew

T (19)

there
three
treat
tired
trees
trend
threw
tires
tread
tyres
treks
tress
treed
tares
titre
trews
treen
treys
tyred

V (2)

vires
vireo

W (8)

where
wreck
wires
wired
wares
wreak
wrest
wrens

Z (1)

zaire

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Questions people ask

How many 5 letter words with RE are there?

This list has 297, taken from a standard word-game dictionary and limited to words seen in real English text.

What are common 5 letter words with RE?

there, where, great, three, ready, share, break, press.

Which 5 letter words with RE are good Wordle guesses?

great, ready, share, break, store, reach 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.

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