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5-Letter Words Ending in YA

There are 18 five-letter words ending in YA on Word.ws, from abaya to tonya. The most common are playa, tonya, abaya, kavya and chaya.

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All 18 five-letter words ending in YA

  • abaya10n. Synonym of aba.
  • ayaya11n. The roseate spoonbill, Platalea ajaja.
  • banya10n. A type of steam bath, popular in Russia (and in some parts of Alaska as...
  • bunya10n. The bunya pine, Araucaria bidwillii, native to Queensland.
  • chaya13n. A teahouse in Japan.
  • haiya11interj. An exclamation of exasperation, said especially when a bad event occurs.
  • jizya24n. A per capita tax levied on a section of an Islamic state's non-Muslim...
  • kavya15n. A highly artificial Sanskrit literary style used by Indian court poets...
  • khaya15n. A native house or hut.
  • kriya12n. A technique or practice within a yoga discipline.
  • munya10adj. Good.
  • natya8n. The classical Indian forms of dance, singing, and dramatics.
  • okiya12n. The lodging-house of a geisha.
  • oroya8n. A hanging basket attached to a cable, anciently used in South America...
  • panya10n. A large earthenware jar.
  • playa10n. A level area which habitually fills with water that evaporates entirely.
  • praya10n. A promenade or drive located beside the seashore in Hong Kong.
  • tonya8n. A trade broker in Japan, usually a wholesaler, warehouse manager, or...
11 rare five-letter words ending in YA

Questions about these words

How many five-letter words ending in YA are there?
Word.ws lists 18 five-letter words ending in YA, plus 11 rare ones.
What are common five-letter words ending in YA?
playa, tonya, abaya, kavya, chaya, jizya, kriya and banya.
Which of the five-letter words ending in YA has the highest letter score?
jizya scores 24 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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