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5-Letter Words Starting with AV

There are 10 five-letter words that start with AV on Word.ws, from avahi to avoid. The most common are avoid, avail, avant, avert and avian.

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

All 10 five-letter words that start with AV

  • avahi11n. Woolly lemur.
  • avail8v. To turn to the advantage of.
  • avant8n. The front of an army; the vanguard.
  • avast8interj. Hold fast! Cease! Stop! Desist!
  • avens8n. A plant of the genus Geum, especially Geum urbanum, or herb bennet.
  • avert8v. To turn aside or away.
  • avgas9n. Gasoline fuel for piston-engined aircraft.
  • avian8adj. Characteristic of or pertaining to birds, or to bird-like or flying...
  • aviso8n. Advisory; information; advice; intelligence.
  • avoid9v. To try not to meet or communicate with (a person); to shun.
9 rare five-letter words that start with AV

Questions about these words

How many five-letter words that start with AV are there?
Word.ws lists 10 five-letter words that start with AV, plus 9 rare ones.
What are common five-letter words that start with AV?
avoid, avail, avant, avert, avian, avast, avgas and aviso.
Which of the five-letter words that start with AV has the highest letter score?
avahi scores 11 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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