5-Letter Words Starting with BAL
There are 11 five-letter words that start with BAL on Word.ws, from balas to balut. The most common are balls, bally, balmy, baldy and balsa.
Meanings from Wiktionary. Not an official Scrabble, Words With Friends or Wordle word list.
All 11 five-letter words that start with BAL
- balas7n. A type of rose-coloured spinel once thought to be a form of ruby.
- baldy11n. Someone who is bald.
- baler7n. A machine for creating bales, e.g., of hay or cotton.
- balky14adj. Refusing to proceed or cooperate.
- balls7adv. Very. Intensifier.
- bally10adj. Bloody (used as a mild intensifier).
- balmy12adj. Producing balm.
- balsa7n. A large tree, Ochroma pyramidale, native to tropical America, with wood...
- balti7n. A large iron pan having two handles, especially used in Pakistani...
- balun7n. An electronic device for connecting a balanced transmission line to an...
- balut7n. Asian street food consisting of a developing duck embryo boiled alive...
Questions about these words
- How many five-letter words that start with BAL are there?
- Word.ws lists 11 five-letter words that start with BAL, plus 2 rare ones.
- What are common five-letter words that start with BAL?
- balls, bally, balmy, baldy, balsa, baler, balti and balut.
- Which of the five-letter words that start with BAL has the highest letter score?
- balky 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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