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5-Letter Words Starting with AU

There are 16 five-letter words that start with AU on Word.ws, from audax to auxin. The most common are audio, audit, aural, auger and augur.

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

All 16 five-letter words that start with AU

  • audax13n. A non-competitive long-distance (often over 200 km) cycling event.
  • audio6adj. Focused on audible sound, as opposed to sight.
  • audit6n. A judicial examination.
  • augen6n. Flattened eye-shaped mineral grains present in some metamorphic rocks.
  • auger6n. A carpenter's tool for boring holes longer than those bored by a gimlet.
  • aught9n. Zero.
  • augur6n. A diviner who foretells events by the behaviour of birds or other...
  • aulic7adj. Of or pertaining to a royal court; courtly.
  • aulos5n. Any of a class of ancient Greek musical instruments resembling pipes or...
  • aural5adj. Of or pertaining to the ear.
  • auric7adj. Of or pertaining to trivalent gold.
  • aurin5n. A red colouring matter derived from phenol. Used as an indicator.
  • aurum7n. Gold (used in the names of various substances, see "Derived terms").
  • autem7n. A church.
  • auton5n. A machine or robot, usually in the form of a living being, designed to...
  • auxin12n. A class of plant growth substance (often called phytohormones or plant...
5 rare five-letter words that start with AU

Questions about these words

How many five-letter words that start with AU are there?
Word.ws lists 16 five-letter words that start with AU, plus 5 rare ones.
What are common five-letter words that start with AU?
audio, audit, aural, auger, augur, aught, aurum and auxin.
Which of the five-letter words that start with AU has the highest letter score?
audax scores 13 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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