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5-Letter Words Ending in RL

There are 12 five-letter words ending in RL on Word.ws, from churl to whorl. The most common are pearl, swirl, whirl, twirl and snarl.

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

All 12 five-letter words ending in RL

  • churl10n. A free peasant (as opposed to a serf) of the lowest rank, below an earl...
  • gnarl6n. A knot in wood; a knurl or a protuberance with twisted grain, on a tree.
  • grrrl6n. A riot grrrl.
  • knurl9n. A contorted knot in wood.
  • pearl7n. Nacre; mother-of-pearl.
  • skirl9v. To make a shrill sound, as of bagpipes.
  • snarl5v. To entangle; to complicate; to involve in knots.
  • swirl8v. To twist or whirl, as an eddy.
  • thurl8n. Either of the rear hip joints where the hip connects to the upper leg...
  • twirl8n. A movement where a person spins round elegantly; a pirouette.
  • whirl11v. To rotate, revolve, spin or turn rapidly.
  • whorl11n. Each circle, volution or equivalent in a pattern of concentric circles...
9 rare five-letter words ending in RL

Questions about these words

How many five-letter words ending in RL are there?
Word.ws lists 12 five-letter words ending in RL, plus 9 rare ones.
What are common five-letter words ending in RL?
pearl, swirl, whirl, twirl, snarl, whorl, grrrl and churl.
Which of the five-letter words ending in RL has the highest letter score?
whorl scores 11 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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