5-Letter Words Ending in UM
There are 40 five-letter words ending in UM on Word.ws, from album to velum. The most common are album, forum, serum, opium and tatum.
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All 40 five-letter words ending in UM
- album9n. In Ancient Rome, a white tablet or register on which the praetor's...
- annum7n. A one-year period, particularly (finance) a fiscal year or (sciences) a...
- aurum7n. Gold (used in the names of various substances, see "Derived terms").
- begum10v. To daub or cover with gum.
- cavum12n. The lower part of the concha of the ear adjoining the origin of the...
- datum8n. Something known or assumed as fact, and is made the basis of reasoning...
- filum10n. A filamentous anatomical structure.
- forum10n. A place for discussion.
- garum8n. A fermented fish sauce popular as a condiment in Ancient Rome.
- hilum10n. The eye of a bean or other seed, or the center of that eye; the mark or...
- hokum14n. (An instance of) meaningless nonsense with an outward appearance of...
- ileum7n. The last, and usually the longest, division of the small intestine; the...
- ilium7n. The upper and widest of the three bones that make up each side of the...
- kokum15n. A plant (Garcinia indica) in the mangosteen family with culinary...
- kusum11n. A tree of species Schleichera oleosa, from whose seeds a multipurpose...
- kutum11n. A freshwater fish (Rutilus kutum) native to the Caspian Sea.
- ledum8n. Any plant of the genus Ledum.
- locum9n. A period working as a locum tenens.
- malum9n. An evil or wrongdoing.
- minum9n. A minim.
- notum7n. The back; the dorsal side of the thorax in insects or nudibranches.
- novum10n. A new feature, a novelty.
- oakum11n. Coarse fibres separated by hackling from flax or hemp when preparing...
- odium8n. Hatred; dislike.
- oleum7n. A solution of sulfur trioxide in sulfuric acid.
- onium7n. Any cation derived by the addition of a proton to the hydride of any...
- opium9n. A yellow-brown, addictive narcotic drug obtained from the dried juice...
- pilum9n. A Roman military javelin.
- resum7v. To perform resummation upon.
- rheum10n. Thin or watery discharge of mucus or serum, especially from the eyes or...
- scrum9n. A tightly packed and disorderly crowd of people.
- sebum9n. A thick oily substance, secreted by the sebaceous glands of the skin...
- sedum8n. Any of various succulent plants, of the genus Sedum, native to...
- serum7n. Blood serum used as a blood product, in the practice of medicine: blood...
- shtum10adj. Silent; speechless; dumb.
- solum7n. Within a soil profile, a set of related soil horizons that share the...
- strum7v. To play (a guitar or other stringed instrument) by plucking various...
- tatum7n. The shortest statistically significant time interval between successive...
- thrum10n. A thrumming sound; a hum or vibration.
- velum10n. The soft palate.
22 rare five-letter words ending in UM
Questions about these words
- How many five-letter words ending in UM are there?
- Word.ws lists 40 five-letter words ending in UM, plus 22 rare ones.
- What are common five-letter words ending in UM?
- album, forum, serum, opium, tatum, scrum, annum and locum.
- Which of the five-letter words ending in UM has the highest letter score?
- kokum scores 15 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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