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5-Letter Words Starting with AD

There are 23 five-letter words that start with AD on Word.ws, from adage to adult. The most common are adult, admit, adopt, adapt and admin.

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

All 23 five-letter words that start with AD

  • adage7n. An old saying which has obtained credit by long use.
  • adapt8v. To make suitable; to make to correspond; to fit or suit.
  • adays9adv. In the daytime.
  • addax14n. A large African antelope (Addax nasomaculatus) with long, corkscrewing...
  • adder7n. A small venomous serpent of the genus Vipera.
  • addle7adj. Having lost the power of development, and become rotten; putrid.
  • adele6n. An infinite sequence consisting of a real number and a p-adic number...
  • adept8adj. Well skilled; completely versed; thoroughly proficient.
  • adhan9n. The call to prayer, usually recited by a muezzin before each of the...
  • adieu6interj. Said to wish a final farewell; goodbye.
  • adios6interj. Goodbye.
  • adire6n. A type of traditional Yoruba tie-dyed cloth.
  • adman8n. A person in the business of devising, writing, illustrating or selling...
  • admin8n. Administration, or administrative work.
  • admit8v. To allow to enter; to grant entrance (to), whether into a place, into...
  • adobe8n. An unburnt brick dried in the sun.
  • adobo8n. A Philippine dish in which pork or chicken is slowly cooked in a sauce...
  • adopt8v. To take voluntarily (a child of other parents) to be in the place of...
  • adore6v. To worship.
  • adorn6v. To make more beautiful and attractive; to decorate.
  • adowa9n. A traditional dance of the Akan people of Ghana, with hand movements...
  • adown9adv. Down, downward; to or in a lower place.
  • adult6n. An animal that is full-grown.
29 rare five-letter words that start with AD

Questions about these words

How many five-letter words that start with AD are there?
Word.ws lists 23 five-letter words that start with AD, plus 29 rare ones.
What are common five-letter words that start with AD?
adult, admit, adopt, adapt, admin, adore, adobe and adele.
Which of the five-letter words that start with AD has the highest letter score?
addax scores 14 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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