5-Letter Words Ending in W
There are 29 five-letter words ending in W on Word.ws, from ablow to widow. The most common are below, allow, throw, screw and arrow.
Meanings from Wiktionary. Not an official Scrabble, Words With Friends or Wordle word list.
All 29 five-letter words ending in W
- ablow10adj. Blowing or being blown; windy.
- aglow9adj. Glowing; radiant.
- allow8v. To let one have as a suitable share of something.
- arrow8n. A projectile consisting of a shaft, a point and a tail with stabilizing...
- askew12adj. Turned or twisted to one side.
- below10prep. Lower in spatial position than.
- blaow10interj. A sudden explosion, gunshot, or similar sound.
- bylaw13n. A local custom or law of a settlement or district.
- cahow13n. An endangered nocturnal burrowing bird (Pterodroma cahow), from Bermuda.
- elbow10n. The joint between the upper arm and the forearm.
- endow9v. To give property to (someone) as a gift; specifically, to provide (a...
- inlaw8v. To clear of outlawry or attainder, to return to the protection of the...
- kalaw12n. Synonym of rufous hornbill (Buceros hydrocorax).
- macaw12n. Any of various parrots of the genera Ara, Anodorhynchus, Cyanopsitta...
- madow11n. Heroin.
- mamaw12n. One's mother.
- miaow10n. UK spelling of meow.
- oxbow17n. A U-shaped piece of wood used as a collar for an ox, the upper parts of...
- pshaw13interj. Indicating contempt, disgust, irritation, impatience, or disbelief.
- renew8v. To make (something) new again; to restore to freshness or original...
- screw10n. A simple machine, a helical inclined plane.
- serow8n. Any of several species of Asian ungulates of the genus Capricornis.
- shrew11n. Any of numerous small, mouselike, chiefly nocturnal, mammals of the...
- sinew8n. A cord or tendon of the body.
- straw8n. A dried stalk of a cereal plant.
- strew8v. To distribute objects or pieces of something over an area, especially...
- throw11v. To hurl; to release (an object) with some force from one’s hands, an...
- vrouw11n. A Dutchwoman.
- widow12n. A woman whose spouse (traditionally husband) has died (and who has not...
55 rare five-letter words ending in W
- abrew
- adraw
- aflow
- ampaw
- astew
- aview
- bacaw
- bakaw
- bedaw
- bedew
- behew
- bemow
- benew
- benow
- besew
- besow
- betow
- cadew
- devow
- embow
- emmew
- ennew
- finew
- gskew
- hakaw
- hucow
- japow
- midow
- navew
- ngeow
- nooow
- paauw
- padow
- rehew
- remew
- remow
- repew
- rerow
- resaw
- resow
- revow
- scraw
- scrow
- shrow
- theow
- tohew
- unbow
- unlaw
- unmew
- unnew
- unsew
- upbow
- venew
- vinew
- yakow
Questions about these words
- How many five-letter words ending in W are there?
- Word.ws lists 29 five-letter words ending in W, plus 55 rare ones.
- What are common five-letter words ending in W?
- below, allow, throw, screw, arrow, widow, straw and elbow.
- Which of the five-letter words ending in W has the highest letter score?
- oxbow 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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