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5-Letter Words Ending in BO

There are 26 five-letter words ending in BO on Word.ws, from adobo to zimbo. The most common are combo, turbo, jumbo, limbo and rambo.

Meanings from Wiktionary. Not an official Scrabble, Words With Friends or Wordle word list.

All 26 five-letter words ending in BO

  • adobo8n. A Philippine dish in which pork or chicken is slowly cooked in a sauce...
  • bilbo9n. A device for punishment. See bilboes.
  • bumbo11n. A drink made from rum, water, sugar, and nutmeg.
  • carbo9n. Carbohydrate.
  • combo11n. A small musical group.
  • gambo10n. A low, flat cart, typically two-wheeled and with the sides consisting...
  • garbo8n. A rubbish collector; a garbage man.
  • gobbo10n. A goblin.
  • grebo8n. A greaser or biker.
  • gumbo10n. Synonym of okra: the plant or its edible capsules.
  • haibo10interj. An expression of surprise or shock: wow, no way.
  • hambo12n. A Swedish folk dance in three-four time.
  • jumbo16adj. Especially large or powerful.
  • kimbo13v. To position (the arms) akimbo.
  • limbo9n. A speculative place or state, thought possibly to be on the edge of the...
  • mambo11n. A voodoo priestess (in Haiti).
  • nimbo9n. The neem tree.
  • rambo9n. A knife.
  • rumbo9n. A type of punch made chiefly from rum; grog.
  • sambo9n. A sandwich.
  • tambo9n. A tambourine player in a black minstrel troupe.
  • timbo9n. The pacara tree, Enterolobium contortisiliquum.
  • tombo9n. A traditional sweet beer made from the bamboo palm.
  • tsubo7n. A Japanese unit of areal measure, roughly 3.3 m² or 35.5 ft²...
  • turbo7n. A turbine.
  • zimbo18n. A particular univalve mollusc once used as currency.
12 rare five-letter words ending in BO

Questions about these words

How many five-letter words ending in BO are there?
Word.ws lists 26 five-letter words ending in BO, plus 12 rare ones.
What are common five-letter words ending in BO?
combo, turbo, jumbo, limbo, rambo, bilbo, mambo and gumbo.
Which of the five-letter words ending in BO has the highest letter score?
zimbo scores 18 points with the standard letter tile values.

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Word lists and meanings adapted from the Wiktionary entry of each word. Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws left out names, abbreviations, misspellings and offensive words, and ordered the most common words by how often they appear in English (wordfreq). Meanings from Wiktionary; this is not an official Scrabble, Words With Friends or Wordle word list. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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