A brief introduction to five letter words
The English language has a lot of five letter words. In fact, there are 8996 five-letter words according to the Adversarial word selection task on Stack Exchange, an online community for developers. That’s a lot of words! And that’s not even including all the six and seven letter words.
Just looking at five letter words, there are some common patterns. For example, the most frequent letters in order are E, T, A, O, I, N, S, H, R, D, L, U. And the most common consonants are T, N, S, H, R. But what about finding all the correct spots for each distinct letter?
It’s quite hard to find the exact number because many five letter words are homophones (words with different meanings but same pronunciation).
The American Heritage Dictionary defines homophones as words with different meanings but identical pronunciations.
It is important to know how many different meanings a word can have when searching for it. As previously mentioned, there are 8996 five-letter words, but only 1204 of them contain every single vowel and consonant in order.
If you were looking for these types of words specifically, you would need to consider how many times the vowels or consonants occur in those particular groups or blocks (AOI, NOI) which would make it much easier.