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Five-letter words ending in ON

83 words, number 8 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 ON, slurs removed, common words first. 25 of the 83 are common in English dictionaries (the SCOWL grade), which says nothing about any puzzle’s answer. The letter just before ON is most often LON (10), TON (10), ION (8).

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

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

83 of 83 words shown

Common 25 words, in SCOWL’s small dictionary sizes (35 or less)

  • apron
  • arson
  • bacon
  • baron
  • baton
  • bison
  • canon
  • colon
  • croon
  • demon
  • felon
  • heron
  • lemon
  • mason
  • melon
  • moron
  • nylon
  • onion
  • rayon
  • salon
  • spoon
  • swoon
  • talon
  • union
  • wagon

Everyday 11 words, SCOWL sizes 40-50

  • anion
  • argon
  • boron
  • capon
  • futon
  • piton
  • pylon
  • radon
  • scion
  • tenon
  • xenon

Less common 27 words, SCOWL sizes 55-70

  • ancon
  • avion
  • boson
  • codon
  • cogon
  • cyton
  • eikon
  • fanon
  • gipon
  • gluon
  • gyron
  • hyson
  • inion
  • jupon
  • kroon
  • meson
  • ninon
  • odeon
  • paeon
  • prion
  • racon
  • recon
  • solon
  • taxon
  • tigon
  • unwon
  • yapon

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

  • aboon
  • axion
  • azlon
  • beton
  • cajon
  • devon
  • giron
  • jeton
  • macon
  • muton
  • niton
  • pelon
  • pinon
  • puton
  • redon
  • rewon
  • seton
  • shoon
  • toyon
  • yupon

0 inflected forms: no word ending in ON 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.