Pattern library

5-Letter Words Ending in ING

An -ING ending leaves only two letters to find — this is one of the smallest search spaces in Wordle. The list is short enough to read in one glance.

Every 5-letter word ending in ING, computed from our dictionary. If ING is locked in, your answer is a few lines below.

18exact word count
Smost common start (3 words)
Gmost common end (18 words)
1.3avg vowels per word

The full list — 18 words

aging being boing bring cling dding dying ewing fling going hying sling sting swing thing tying vying wring
How this list was made. Every word above was computed from the SCOWL en_US-large word list (73,959 English words) using the exact filter for this page — no hand-picking, no padding, no guessing. Counts are exact. The list includes some uncommon and Scrabble-style words because the source dictionary is comprehensive; that is by design.