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Five-letter words ending in LE

94 words, number 7 of 285 two-letter endings

Every five-letter word in ENABLE (a public-domain Scrabble-style list, not any game’s answer list) that ends in LE, slurs removed, common words first. 32 of the 94 are common in English dictionaries (the SCOWL grade), which says nothing about any puzzle’s answer. The letter just before LE is most often ILE (15), BLE (11), OLE (10).

Type a letter twice (EE) to require two copies.

Open the finder with LE in the last two spotsfor yellow and grey letters, or letters in other spots

94 of 94 words shown

Common 32 words, in SCOWL’s small dictionary sizes (35 or less)

  • agile
  • aisle
  • amble
  • ample
  • angle
  • ankle
  • apple
  • bible
  • bugle
  • cable
  • cycle
  • eagle
  • exile
  • fable
  • gable
  • guile
  • ladle
  • maple
  • noble
  • rifle
  • scale
  • sidle
  • smile
  • stale
  • stole
  • style
  • table
  • title
  • uncle
  • whale
  • while
  • whole

Everyday 11 words, SCOWL sizes 40-50

  • addle
  • belle
  • joule
  • lisle
  • ovule
  • ruble
  • sable
  • shale
  • stile
  • tulle
  • voile

Less common 31 words, SCOWL sizes 55-70

  • abele
  • anele
  • anile
  • anole
  • azole
  • bogle
  • boule
  • chyle
  • coble
  • dhole
  • duple
  • haole
  • ingle
  • inkle
  • istle
  • ixtle
  • macle
  • merle
  • phyle
  • prole
  • quale
  • rille
  • roble
  • socle
  • spile
  • stele
  • swale
  • thole
  • toile
  • utile
  • yodle

Rare 20 words, SCOWL sizes 80-95, or not in SCOWL

  • amole
  • argle
  • axile
  • birle
  • butle
  • carle
  • chile
  • edile
  • farle
  • fille
  • fugle
  • hoyle
  • maile
  • mille
  • obole
  • odyle
  • padle
  • parle
  • selle
  • spale

0 inflected forms: no word ending in LE is a plural or an -s, -es or -ed form under the rule on the word-list index, because that rule only ever catches words ending in S or D.