5 letter words starting with H

5 letter words that start with H and end with H as well 14 words

Fourteen words open and close on the same letter, and one ending does nearly all of it: HATCH, HITCH, HOOCH, HOTCH, HUNCH and HUTCH all finish with the same pair of letters the word HATCH does. HARSH and HEATH are the two ordinary ones. HAUGH, HEIGH, HEUCH, HEUGH, HORAH and HUMPH are the rest, and a player who has confirmed both ends of a five letter grid is looking at this whole list.

• harsh
• hatch
• haugh
• heath
• heigh
• heuch
• heugh
• hitch
• hooch
• horah
• hotch
• humph
• hunch
• hutch

5 letter words starting with H with a Y on the end 50 words

Fifty of them, and the Y is doing the same job in nearly every one: turning a noun into the adjective that describes being covered in it. HAIRY, HARDY, HASTY, HEAVY, HANDY, HORNY and HUSKY are the ones anybody would produce under pressure. HEDGY, HERBY, HOAGY, HOOLY and HURLY are the ones that win an argument, and each is in the main list above as well.

• hairy
• hammy
• handy
• hanky
• haply
• happy
• hardy
• harpy
• harry
• hasty
• heady
• heavy
• hedgy
• hefty
• hempy
• henry
• herby
• herry
• hilly
• hinny
• hippy
• hissy
• hoagy
• hoary
• hobby
• hokey
• holey
• holly
• homey
• honey
• honky
• hoody
• hooey
• hooky
• hooly
• hooty
• hoppy
• horny
• horsy
• hotly
• howdy
• hubby
• huffy
• hulky
• humpy
• hunky
• hurly
• hurry
• husky
• hussy

The 5 letter H words worth 15 points or more 45 words

An H is worth four in Scrabble, the joint highest of any letter in ordinary use, so an H word starts ahead before the other four squares are counted. HUZZA leads on twenty six, HAJJI takes twenty two and HAFIZ twenty, then HAMZA on nineteen. Below them the list turns into the everyday words that happen to hold a second expensive letter, HAPPY, HOBBY, HUSKY and HUNKY among them. Points are printed beside each word.

• huzza 26
• hajji 22
• hafiz 20
• hamza 19
• hazed 18
• hexyl 18
• hyrax 18
• hapax 17
• hazan 17
• hazel 17
• hazer 17
• hazes 17
• heeze 17
• hertz 17
• howff 17
• huffy 17
• hadji 16
• hexad 16
• hexed 16
• hokku 16
• hypha 16
• hajes 15
• hajis 15
• hammy 15
• hanky 15
• happy 15
• hawks 15
• helix 15
• hempy 15
• hexer 15
• hexes 15
• hippy 15
• hobby 15
• hokey 15
• honky 15
• hooky 15
• hoppy 15
• howdy 15
• howks 15
• hubby 15
• hulky 15
• humph 15
• humpy 15
• hunky 15
• husky 15

5 letter words starting with H that use five different letters 229 words

Two thirds of the page, 229 words, spend each of their five squares on a character they use nowhere else. That is what makes a word worth a first guess in a daily grid: five separate ideas tested at once instead of three. HEART is the strongest of the whole set, because every letter in it is among the commonest in English, and HOUSE, HOTEL, HANDS and HORSE follow it closely.

5 letter words with H in them but not at the front 814 words

The question this page could not answer until now, and the bigger half of the letter by a wide margin: 814 five letter words carry an H somewhere other than the opening square, against the 334 that begin with one. Almost all of them are digraphs, an H bolted onto the consonant in front of it, as in BATCH, WHICH, ALPHA, ACHED and AUGHT. An H on its own between two vowels, the way AHEAD and ABHOR do it, is genuinely rare.