this word list comprises the intersection of 5 letter words occurring in three source lists:
- wikipedia's list of most 100k most common words in the english language
- the american english dictionary file on my laptop
- the british english dictionary file on my laptop
the source lists are sanitised by dropping words that contain non-alphabetic or non-ascii characters and converting capitals to lowercase.
only words that occur in all three resulting lists are kept.
For quick lookups, I often use 5 Letter Words. It makes it easy to filter five-letter words by starting letter, ending, contained letters, and patterns, especially for word games and puzzle solving.