4-Letter Words Starting with G

All 243 four-letter words that start with G

GA

• gabi7n. Colocasia esculenta, raised as a food primarily for its corm, which...
• gaby10n. A stupid, foolish person; a simpleton; a dunce.
• gack11interj. A sharp, sudden sound from someone's throat while they're coughing...
• gada6n. A blunt mace, originally from India and also common in Southeast Asia.
• gade6n. Any of various fish of the cod family found in British waters...
• gadi6n. A cushioned throne used by Indian princes.
• gaff11n. A tool consisting of a large metal hook with a handle or pole...
• gaga6adj. Mentally senile.
• gage6v. To bind (someone) by pledge or security; to engage.
• gain5v. To acquire possession of.
• gait5n. A manner of walking or stepping; a bearing or carriage while moving on...
• gaja12n. The sacred name for the elephant.
• gaji12n. In the game of sakura, the name of the 0-point card of the...
• gaki9n. A restless ghost in Japanese mythology.
• gala5adj. Celebratory; festive.
• gald6v. To chafe or abrade, causing pain.
• gale5v. To cry; groan; croak.
• gali5n. An alleyway or side street.
• gall5n. Impudence or brazenness; temerity; chutzpah.
• galp7v. To gape; yawn.
• gama7n. Synonym of gama grass.
• gamb9n. The leg or shank, typically of an animal, especially of a lion, on a...
• game7n. A playful activity that may be unstructured; an amusement or pastime.
• gamp9n. An umbrella.
• gang6v. To go; walk; proceed.
• ganj12n. Ganja.
• gank9v. To swindle.
• gaol5n. Dated spelling of jail.
• gaon5n. A village.
• gape7v. To open the mouth wide, especially involuntarily, as in a yawn, anger...
• garb7n. Fashion, style of dressing oneself up.
• gard6n. A garden.
• gare5n. Coarse wool on the legs of sheep.
• garg6n. A gargoyle.
• gari5n. Thinly sliced marinated ginger served as a condiment with sushi.
• garn5interj. A response that expresses disbelief or mockery.
• gash8n. A deep cut.
• gasp7v. To draw in the breath suddenly, as if from a shock.
• gast5v. To frighten.
• gata5n. A kind of pastry in Armenia and some neighboring countries.
• gate5n. A doorlike structure outside a house.
• gato5n. Cat, kitty.
• gaud6n. A cheap showy trinket.
• gaur5n. An Asian species of wild bovine (Bos gaurus), of large size and an...
• gawk12n. A cuckoo; (sometimes by extension) any gawky bird.
• gawn8n. A small tub or lading vessel.
• gawp10v. To stare stupidly or rudely; to gawk.
• gayo8n. South Korean popular music (K-pop).
• gaze14v. To stare intently or earnestly.

GE

• geal5v. To congeal.
• gean5n. A wild cherry tree, Prunus avium, native to Europe and western Asia or...
• gear5n. Equipment or paraphernalia, especially that used for an athletic...
• geas5n. A (generally magical) vow, obligation or injunction placed upon someone...
• geat5n. The channel or spout through which molten metal runs into a mould in...
• geck11v. To jeer or mock; to show contempt for.
• geek9n. A carnival performer specializing in bizarre and unappetizing behavior.
• geep7n. A sheep–goat hybrid, an animal with DNA from a goat and from a sheep...
• geet5adj. Great.
• geez14interj. An exclamation denoting surprise or frustration.
• gein5n. Humic acid.
• geis5n. Synonym of geas (“a mystical injunction: a prohibition, or...
• geld6v. To tax geld.
• gele5n. A traditional head tie native to Yoruba women of West Africa (Nigeria...
• gelt5n. A gelding.
• gena5n. The cheek; the feathered side of the under mandible of a bird.
• gene5n. A theoretical unit of heredity of living organisms which may take...
• geno5n. Genocide.
• gens5n. A legally defined unit of Roman society, being a collection of people...
• gent5n. A gentleman.
• genu5n. The knee.
• geog6n. Geography, mainly as a school subject.
• geon5n. A hypothetical electromagnetic or gravitational wave held together in a...
• gerb7n. A firework that produces a fountain of sparks.
• germ7n. The embryo of a seed, especially of a seed used as a cereal or grain....
• gern5v. To grin.
• gert5adj. Big.
• gest5n. A story or adventure; a verse or prose romance.
• geta5n. A Japanese raised wooden clog, worn with traditional Japanese garments...
• gett5n. A child, especially a mischievous one.
• geum7n. Any of the genus Geum of perennial herbaceous plants.

GH

• ghat8n. A descending path or stairway to a river; a ford or landing-place.
• ghee8n. A type of clarified butter used in South Asian cooking.

GI

• gibs7n. The internal organs of certain computer game characters after being...
• gick11n. Excrement.
• gift8n. Something given to another voluntarily, without charge.
• gila5adj. Mad; crazy; insane.
• gild6v. To cover with a thin layer of gold; to cover with gold leaf.
• gill5n. A breathing organ of fish and other aquatic animals.
• gilo5n. Fruit of the scarlet eggplant (Solanum aethiopicum).
• gilt5n. Gold or other metal in a thin layer; gilding.
• gimp9n. A narrow ornamental fabric or braid of silk, wool, or cotton, often...
• gina5n. The vagina.
• ging6n. A ‘shanghai’, or handheld catapult.
• gink9n. A guy, a fellow, especially (derogatory) a foolish, unworldly, or...
• gird6v. To bind with a flexible rope or cord.
• girk9v. To jerk, yerk.
• girl5n. A female child.
• giro5n. A transfer of funds between different account holders, carried out by...
• girt5n. A horizontal structural member of post and beam architecture, typically...
• gish8n. A character that is skilled in both physical combat and the use of...
• gist5n. The main idea or substance, or the most essential part, of a longer or...
• gite5n. A gown.
• give8v. To transfer one's possession or holding of (something) to (someone).

GL

• glad6adj. Pleased; happy; gratified.
• glam7n. Glamour; glamorousness.
• glee5n. Joy; happiness; great delight, especially from one's own good fortune...
• glen5n. A secluded and narrow valley, especially one with a river running...
• gley8n. A type of hydric soil, sticky, greenish-blue-grey in colour and low in...
• glia5n. The network of glial cells that supports nervous system tissue.
• glib7adj. Having a ready flow of words but lacking thought or understanding...
• glim7v. To illuminate.
• glip7v. To bomb a bridge, particularly with a technique developed by the 490th...
• glob7n. A round, shapeless or amorphous lump, as of a semisolid substance.
• glom7v. To take.
• glop7n. Any gooey substance.
• glor5n. Fat, especially as a soft mass.
• glow8v. To emit heat and light without a flame.
• glub7n. The sound of underwater bubbles, or of water bubbling (often used...
• glue5n. A hard gelatin made by boiling bones and hides, used in solution as an...
• glug6n. The sound made when a significant amount of liquid is poured suddenly...
• glum7adj. Despondent; moody; sullen.
• glut5n. An excess, too much.
• glyn8n. A valley in a mountain area, especially one with a stream in the bottom.

GN

• gnar5v. To snarl or growl.
• gnat5n. A biting insect, especially a mosquito.
• gnaw8v. To bite something persistently, especially something tough.

GO

• goad6n. A long, pointed stick used to prod animals.
• goal5n. A result that one is attempting to achieve.
• goat5n. Any ruminant of the genus Capra.
• gobi7n. Cauliflower.
• gobo7n. A screen (often in disc form) placed between a light and an illuminated...
• goby10n. Any of various small fish from the large family Gobiidae, in which the...
• godi6n. A local chieftain in Norse societies, who held religious and...
• gods6n. The highest platform, or upper circle, in an auditorium.
• goel5n. A person who, as the nearest relative of another, has certain...
• goer5n. One who, or that which, goes.
• goey8adj. Of a horse: inclined to go; restive.
• goff11n. Synonym of bump (“sudden movement of underground strata”).
• gogo6n. An elasticated hair band.
• goit5n. A small artificial channel carrying water. Usually used with respect to...
• goji12n. A fruit in the genus Lycium, especially in commercial products where it...
• gold6n. (uncountable) A heavy yellow elemental metal of great value, with...
• gole5n. The main body of an army in array; a clustered body of troops; an...
• golf8n. A ball game played by individuals competing against one another in...
• goli5n. A traditional dance and masquerade of the Baoulé people of the Ivory...
• goll5n. A hand.
• gome7n. A man.
• gomo7n. Kopje, small hill.
• gone5adj. Away, having left.
• gong6n. A percussion instrument consisting of a metal disk that emits a loud...
• gonk9n. A small fuzzy toy, popularized during wartime.
• good6adj. Acting in the interest of what is beneficial, ethical, or moral.
• goof8n. A mistake or error.
• goog6n. An egg.
• gook9n. Grime or mud.
• goom7n. Methylated spirits.
• goon5n. A thug; a usually muscular henchman with little intelligence.
• goop7n. A thick, slimy substance; goo.
• gopi7n. Any of the milkmaids that were companions of Krishna in Indian...
• gora5adj. Pertaining to a fair-skinned or European person.
• gord6n. A medieval Slavonic fortified settlement, typically a group of wooden...
• gore5n. Blood, especially that from a wound when thickened due to exposure to...
• gorg6adj. Gorgeous.
• gork9n. A despised person; dork, geek, jerk.
• gorm7v. To gawk; to stare or gape.
• gorn5n. A work that dwells upon graphic and realistic scenes of sadistic...
• gorp7n. A loose mixture of dried fruit, nuts, frequently salt, and sometimes...
• gory8adj. Covered with blood; very bloody.
• gose5n. A beer brewed since the 16th century, in Goslar and later Leipzig, with...
• gosh8interj. A mild expression of surprise or enthusiasm.
• goss5n. Gossip.
• gosu5n. A person of great skill; master; expert.
• gote5n. A drain; sluice; ditch or gutter.
• goth8n. A punk-derived subculture of people who predominantly dress in black...
• goud6n. Woad.
• gour5n. A pool in a cave confined by a dam of mineral deposits accumulating...
• gout5n. An extremely painful inflammation of joints, especially of the big toe...
• gove8v. To stare stupidly.
• govi8n. A sacred urn or pitcher in Haitian voodoo, used to hold the spirit of...
• gown8n. A loose, flowing upper garment.
• goya8n. Bitter melon (edible fruit, especially as it is eaten by Okinawans).

GR

• grab7v. To grip suddenly; to seize; to clutch.
• graf8n. A German or Austrian count (nobleman).
• gram7n. A unit of mass equal to one-thousandth of a kilogram. Symbol: g.
• gran5n. A grandmother.
• grat5n. A gratuity or tip.
• grav8n. A unit of force or acceleration equal to the standard acceleration of...
• gray8adj. Of a color between black and white, having neutral hue and intermediate...
• gree5n. Pre-eminence; victory or superiority in combat (hence also, the prize...
• grem7n. A young or inexperienced surfer or skateboarder.
• grep7v. To use a program such as grep to search in a file.
• grex12n. A multicellular aggregate of amoeba.
• grey8adj. Commonwealth standard spelling of gray.
• grid6n. A rectangular array of squares or rectangles of equal size, such as in...
• grig6n. A cricket or grasshopper.
• grim7adj. Dismal and gloomy, cold and forbidding.
• grin5n. A smile in which the lips are parted to reveal the teeth.
• grip7v. To take hold (of), particularly with the hand.
• grit5n. A collection of hard small materials, such as dirt, ground stone...
• grog6n. An alcoholic beverage made with rum and water, especially that once...
• grok9v. To understand (something) intuitively, to know (something) without...
• grom7n. A young surfer, wakeskater, wakeboarder, snowboarder, skimboarder...
• grot5n. A grotto.
• grow8v. To become larger, to increase in magnitude.
• grrr5interj. Elongated form of grr.
• grub7n. An insect, especially a beetle, at an immature stage of its life cycle.
• grue5v. To be frightened; also, to shudder with fear; to quake, to tremble.
• grum7adj. Morose, stern, surly, sullen.
• grus5n. An accumulation of angular, coarse-grained fragments (particles of sand...

GU

• guac7n. Money.
• guan5n. Any (member) of several species of birds in the genera Aburria...
• guar5n. An annual legume (Cyamopsis tetragonoloba), used as a food for cattle...
• guck11n. The hybrid offspring of a goose and a duck.
• guff11n. Nonsensical talk or thinking.
• guga6n. Solan goose or northern gannet.
• gula5n. The upper front of the neck, next to the chin; the upper throat.
• gule5n. The throat; the gullet.
• gulf8n. A hollow place in the earth; an abyss; a deep chasm or basin.
• gull5n. A seabird of the genus Larus or of the subfamily Larinae.
• gulp7n. The usual amount swallowed.
• guly8adj. Gules; red.
• gump9n. A foolish person.
• guna5n. A lengthening of the simple vowels a, i, u, by prefixing an a element.
• gunk9n. Grime, dirt, slime; any vague, messy, or unknown substance.
• guns5n. Well-developed muscles of the upper arm, especially the biceps and...
• gurk9v. To burp or belch.
• gurl5n. Term of address between cis gay men, transgender women, or drag queens.
• gurn5n. A distorted facial expression; grimace.
• guro5n. A subgenre of manga and anime focusing on gore and mutilation.
• gurt5n. A gutter or channel for water, hewn out of the bottom of a working...
• guru5n. In Indian traditions: a spiritual teacher who transmits knowledge to a...
• gush8n. A sudden rapid outflow.
• gust5n. A strong, abrupt rush of wind.
• guts5n. The entrails or contents of the abdomen.
• guys8n. Used to address a group of people regardless of gender.

GW

• gwan8n. A hybrid between a goose and a swan, especially the offspring of a...

GY

• gybe10v. To shift a fore-and-aft sail from one side of a sailing vessel to the...
• gyle8n. The amount of beer brewed at a time.
• gyne8n. The primary reproductive female caste of social insects (especially...
• gyra8n. The richly embroidered border of a robe.
• gyre8n. A swirling vortex.
• gyro8n. A gyroscope.

GZ

• gzip16v. To compress using the gzip program.

Questions about these words

How many four-letter words that start with G are there?

Word.ws lists 243 four-letter words that start with G, plus 44 rare ones.

What are common four-letter words that start with G?

good, game, give, guys, girl, gold, gone and goal.

Which of the four-letter words that start with G has the highest letter score?

gzip scores 16 points with the standard letter tile values.

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