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5-Letter .com Domains That Are Still Available

5 letters is 11,881,376 possible .com names — far more than anyone can buy up. Of 150 we checked at random, 118 were unregistered: about 79 in every 100. That number flatters the length. Almost every string of 5 letters is noise, and noise is free — while all 165 of the common English words this length are long gone.

How much of it is worth having

Kind of nameStill unregistered
Common English words0 of all 165
Invented but pronounceableabout 28% of 60 sampled
Any letters at allabout 79% of 150 sampled

The scarcity is in the reading, not the length. A name you can say out loud is a much smaller set than a name of the right size, and it is the one that has been picked over.

Pronounceable, and unregistered when checkedchecked

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Find your own

Nobody can search 11,881,376 names at once, and a tool that offered to would be lying — the largest plan here checks 10,000 in a run. What works is taking a corner of the space at a time: fix the first 3 letters and cross them with every two-letter ending, which is 676 combinations and runs on a free account.

Open “sky” + two letters in the builder

Change the opening to move somewhere else in the 11,881,376. Nothing runs until you click search.