5-Letter Words Ending in EL
There are 91 five-letter words ending in EL on Word.ws, from agnel to yodel. The most common are level, model, hotel, steel and novel.
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All 91 five-letter words ending in EL
A
- agnel6n. A 13th century French gold coin.
- angel6n. An incorporeal and holy or semidivine messenger from a deity or other...
- appel9n. An act of striking the ground with the leading foot to frighten...
- ariel5n. A kind of mountain gazelle, native to Arabia.
- artel5n. A Russian or Soviet craftsmen's collective.
- athel8n. A kind of tamarisk native to northern Africa and the Middle East...
B
- babel9n. A confused noise made by a number of voices.
- bagel8n. A toroidal bread roll that is boiled before it is baked.
- bedel8n. An administrative official at universities in several European...
- betel7n. Either of two (parts of) plants often used in combination.
- bevel10n. An edge that is canted, one that is not a 90-degree angle; a chamfer.
- bezel16n. The sloping edge or face on a cutting tool.
- bowel10n. A part or division of the intestines, usually the large intestine.
C
- cadel8n. An ornate capital letter used in calligraphy, consisting of interlaced...
- camel9n. A mammalian beast of burden, much used in desert areas, of the genus...
- capel9n. A composite stone (quartz, schorl, and hornblende) in the walls of tin...
- cheel10n. A girl.
- creel7n. A woven basket, especially a wicker basket.
- cruel7adj. Intentionally causing or reveling in pain and suffering; merciless...
D
- decel8n. Synonym of decelerationist.
- dotel6n. A dotard.
- dowel9n. A pin, or block, of wood or metal, fitting into holes in the abutting...
E
- easel5n. An upright frame, typically on three legs, for displaying or supporting...
- eisel5n. Vinegar, verjuice.
- ethel8n. The rune ᛟ.
- excel14v. To surpass someone or something; to be better or do better than someone...
- expel14v. To eject.
F
- fasel8v. To unravel or become frayed.
- favel11adj. Yellow or dun in colour.
- forel8n. A kind of coarse parchment for book covers; a forrill.
G
- gabel8n. Any rent, charge, tribute, custom, tax, duty, excise etc.
- gavel9n. Rent.
- gimel8n. The third letter of the several Semitic alphabets (Phoenician, Aramaic...
- gruel6n. A thin, watery porridge, formerly eaten primarily by the poor and the...
H
- hazel17n. A tree or shrub of the genus Corylus, bearing edible nuts called...
- hosel8n. The portion of the head of a golf club to which the shaft of the club...
- hotel8n. A large town house or mansion; a grand private residence, especially in...
- hovel11n. An open shed for sheltering cattle, or protecting produce, etc., from...
- howel11n. A plane-like tool used by coopers for smoothing and chamfering their...
- hydel12adj. Hydroelectric.
I
- impel9v. To urge a person; to press on; to incite to action or motion via...
- incel7n. Someone (especially a man) who desires a sexual relationship but...
- indel6n. Either an insertion or deletion mutation in the genetic code.
- intel5n. Intelligence (secret information).
J
- javel15n. A vagabond.
- jebel14n. A hill, a mountain (especially in the Middle East or North Africa).
- jewel15n. A precious or semi-precious stone; gem, gemstone.
K
- kegel10n. The pubococcygeal muscles.
- kneel9v. To rest on one's bent knees, sometimes only one; to move to such a...
- kugel10n. A traditional savoury or sweet Jewish dish consisting of a baked...
L
- label7n. A small ticket or sign giving information about something to which it...
- lapel7n. Each of the two triangular pieces of cloth on the front of a jacket or...
- lemel7n. Metal filings.
- level8adj. The same height at all places; parallel to a flat ground.
- libel7n. A written or pictorial false statement which unjustly seeks to damage...
- lunel5n. A type of sweet muscat wine.
M
- model8n. A person who poses as a subject or visual reference for an artist.
- mohel10n. The person who performs the circumcision in a Jewish bris.
- morel7n. A true morel; any of several fungi in the genus Morchella, the upper...
- motel7n. A type of hotel or lodging establishment, often located near a major...
N
- navel8n. The indentation or bump remaining in the abdomen of placental mammals...
- nebel7n. A Hebrew stringed instrument, possibly the same as the nabla.
- newel8n. A central pillar around which some types of spiral staircase are...
- novel8adj. Newly made, formed or evolved; having no precedent; of recent origin...
O
- oriel5n. A large polygonal recess in a building, such as a bay window, forming a...
- ouzel14n. A Eurasian blackbird (Turdus merula).
P
- padel8n. A racquet sport popular in Spain and Latin America, usually played in...
- panel7n. A (usually) rectangular section of a surface, or of a covering or of a...
- patel7n. A village head man.
- pixel14n. One of the tiny dots that make up the representation of an image in a...
R
- ratel5n. Synonym of honey badger.
- ravel8v. To entwine or tangle (something) confusedly; to entangle.
- rebel7n. A person who resists an established authority, often violently.
- repel7v. To reject, put off (a request, demand etc.).
- revel8n. An instance of merrymaking; a celebration.
- rowel8n. A small spiked wheel on the end of a spur of certain types.
S
- sewel8n. A scarecrow, generally made of feathers tied to a string, hung up to...
- shiel8n. A shepherd's hut or shieling.
- skeel9n. A shallow wooden vessel for holding milk or cream.
- sobel7n. A government soldier who joined the rebels during the Sierra Leone...
- sorel5n. A young buck (deer) in the third year.
- speel7v. To climb.
- spiel7n. A lengthy and extravagant speech or argument usually intended to...
- steel5n. An artificial metal produced from iron, harder and more elastic than...
T
- texel12n. An image representing the smallest unit of a texture that may be...
- towel8n. A cloth used for wiping, especially one used for drying anything wet...
U
- umbel9n. A flat-topped or rounded flower-cluster (= inflorescence) in which the...
V
- vowel11n. A sound produced by the vocal cords with relatively little restriction...
- voxel15n. The three-dimensional analogue of a pixel; a volume element...
W
- wheel11n. A circular device capable of rotating on its axis, facilitating...
Y
- yodel9v. To sing (a song) in such a way that the voice fluctuates rapidly...
50 rare five-letter words ending in EL
Questions about these words
- How many five-letter words ending in EL are there?
- Word.ws lists 91 five-letter words ending in EL, plus 50 rare ones.
- What are common five-letter words ending in EL?
- level, model, hotel, steel, novel, panel, wheel and angel.
- Which of the five-letter words ending in EL has the highest letter score?
- hazel scores 17 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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