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5-Letter Words Ending in JA

There are 13 five-letter words ending in JA on Word.ws, from bruja to zanja. The most common are ninja, ganja, jinja, bruja and manja.

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All 13 five-letter words ending in JA

  • bruja14n. A female practitioner of brujería.
  • ganja13n. Marijuana, the inflorescence of the Cannabis sativa plant, smoked or...
  • gonja13n. The plantain, especially when served fried.
  • hanja15n. The Han character script used to write Korean, particularly in...
  • hodja16n. A Muslim schoolmaster.
  • jinja19n. A Shinto place of worship.
  • khaja19n. A fried crispy, layered sweet pastry filled with fruits or soaked with...
  • manja14n. String coated with crushed glass and attached to a kite, used to cut...
  • nduja13n. A type of spicy, spreadable salami from Calabria.
  • ninja12n. One trained in ninjutsu, especially one used for espionage...
  • punja14n. Cultivable dry land.
  • thuja15n. A tree of the genus Thuja.
  • zanja21n. An irrigation canal in Latin America.
9 rare five-letter words ending in JA

Questions about these words

How many five-letter words ending in JA are there?
Word.ws lists 13 five-letter words ending in JA, plus 9 rare ones.
What are common five-letter words ending in JA?
ninja, ganja, jinja, bruja, manja, thuja, hanja and hodja.
Which of the five-letter words ending in JA has the highest letter score?
zanja scores 21 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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