5-Letter Words With H and L
Our word finder knows 207 five-letter words with H and L in them. Common picks such as HOTEL, WHILE, SHALL lead the list, which makes it faster to spot the word your puzzle is hiding.
Words are ordered by usage frequency in a trillion-word English corpus, which is the closest thing to "most likely answer first" that a word list can offer.
Most common
- hotel8
- while11
- shall8
- light9
- child11
- whole11
- flash11
- hello8
- helps10
- alpha10
- hills8
- wheel11
- lunch10
- shell8
- holds9
- chile10
- ralph10
- holes8
- shelf11
- laugh9
All 207 words (the small number on each word is its Scrabble point value)
- cloth 10
- welsh 11
- holly 11
- flesh 11
- whale 11
- flush 11
- lynch 13
- heels 8
- plush 10
- halls 8
- chili 10
- chill 10
- clash 10
- welch 13
- slash 8
- helix 15
- hazel 17
- chalk 14
- aloha 8
- filth 11
- shalt 8
- lymph 15
- latch 10
- blush 10
- leach 10
- ethyl 11
- leash 8
- lathe 8
- shawl 11
- mulch 12
- helms 10
- shale 8
- hoyle 11
- leech 10
- aleph 10
- heals 8
- gulch 11
- glyph 14
- whirl 11
- hails 8
- holla 8
- hallo 8
- sloth 8
- hilly 11
- hells 8
- shoal 8
- halts 8
- litho 8
- hulls 8
- licht 10
- slush 8
- lough 9
- halal 8
- hales 8
- hotly 11
- halos 8
- lakhs 12
- ahold 9
- larch 10
- holed 9
- helio 8
- ghoul 9
- whorl 11
- halve 11
- shaul 8
- phlox 17
- selah 8
- shyly 14
- lurch 10
- howls 11
- thiol 8
- halon 8
- loach 10
- shill 8
- altho 8
- hauls 8
- loath 8
- nihil 8
- lithe 8
- ghyll 12
- kohls 12
- zilch 19
- haply 13
- belch 12
- chela 10
- lochs 10
- phyla 13
- shool 8
- holey 11
- thole 8
- shiel 8
- milch 12
- hullo 8
- holts 8
- hovel 11
- whelp 13
- blahs 10
- sheol 8
- hurls 8
- chola 10
- wheal 11
- muhly 13
- lethe 8
- hilts 8
- slosh 8
- tilth 8
- hilar 8
- hexyl 18
- thill 8
- hulks 12
- hurly 11
- sylph 13
- cholo 10
- halma 10
- laith 8
- filch 13
- chiel 10
- phial 10
- whelk 15
- hylas 11
- haole 8
- lahar 8
- holms 10
- schul 10
- mohel 10
- halva 11
- hosel 8
- letch 10
- lathi 8
- hollo 8
- lehua 8
- churl 10
- laths 8
- hilum 10
- galah 9
- helos 8
- thurl 8
- clach 12
- haled 9
- ahull 8
- almah 10
- almeh 10
- buhls 10
- chyle 13
- culch 12
- dahls 9
- dhals 9
- dhole 9
- hadal 9
- haler 8
- halid 9
- halms 10
- hamal 10
- harls 8
- haulm 10
- heils 8
- helot 8
- helve 11
- hemal 10
- herls 8
- hillo 8
- hilus 8
- hiply 13
- holks 12
- hooly 11
- horal 8
- hulas 8
- hulky 15
- laich 10
- laigh 9
- lathy 11
- lehrs 8
- lichi 10
- lotah 8
- phyle 13
- plash 10
- shaly 11
- sheal 8
- shily 11
- shlep 10
- shlub 10
- shorl 8
- shuln 8
- shuls 8
- thirl 8
- uhlan 8
- whelm 13
Points use Scrabble US letter values
Frequently asked questions
How many five-letter words are there with H and L in them?
There are 207 five-letter words with H and L in them in the tournament word lists. The most common are HOTEL, WHILE, SHALL.
What are common five-letter words with H and L in them?
HOTEL, WHILE, SHALL, LIGHT, CHILD are the most frequently used. The full list of 207 words on this page is sorted by everyday frequency, so the common ones come first.
Are these valid Wordle words?
Nearly all of them. Wordle draws its answers from a curated list of common five-letter words, but it accepts almost any dictionary word as a guess, including the words on this page.