5-Letter Words Starting with BE

All 85 five-letter words that start with BE

BEA

• beach12n. The shore of a body of water, especially when sandy or pebbly.
• beads8n. A beaded necklace.
• beady11adj. Resembling beads; small, round, and gleaming.
• beaky14adj. Beaked: having a beak.
• beamy12adj. Resembling a beam in size and weight; massy.
• beano7n. A beanfeast; any noisy celebration, a party.
• beans7n. Pills; drugs in pill form.
• beany10adj. Resembling or characteristic of beans.
• beard8n. Facial hair on the chin, cheeks, jaw and neck.
• beary10adj. Of or pertaining to a bear.
• beast7n. Any four-footed land mammal.
• beath10v. To bathe (with warm liquid); foment.
• beats7n. An assault by beating.
• beaty10adj. Having a pronounced beat.
• beaut7n. Something or someone that is physically attractive.

BEB

• bebee9n. A woman or wife.
• bebop11n. An early form of modern jazz played by small groups and featuring...

BEC

• becak13n. A cycle rickshaw.

BED

• bedan8n. A kind of woodturning tool consisting of a bar with a single bevel.
• bedel8n. An administrative official at universities in several European...

BEE

• beech12n. A tree of the genus Fagus having a smooth, light grey trunk, oval...
• beedi8n. A thin, often flavored, Indian cigarette made of tobacco wrapped in a...
• beefy13adj. Similar to, or tasting like beef.
• beery10adj. Smelling or tasting of beer.
• beest7n. Beestings, colostrum.

BEF

• befit10v. To be fit for.
• befoe10v. To make or become a foe.

BEG

• begay11v. To make cheerful or merry.
• beget8v. To produce or bring forth (a child); to be a parent of; to father or...
• begin8v. To start, to initiate or take the first step into something.
• begum10v. To daub or cover with gum.
• begun8adj. Having begun.

BEH

• behen10n. Behen rubrum or red behen: said in some sources to be Salvia haematodes...

BEI

• beige8n. A colour, variously defined from a pale brown, to a yellow greyish...
• being8n. A living creature.
• beira7n. A small antelope, Dorcatragus megalotis, found in the Horn of Africa.

BEJ

• bejan14n. A freshman at various Scottish and continental universities.

BEL

• belah10n. Beefwood.
• belay10v. To make (a rope) fast by turning it around a fastening point such as a...
• belch12v. To expel (gas) from the stomach through the mouth; especially, to do so...
• belie7v. To lie around; encompass.
• belle7n. An attractive woman.
• bello7n. A young man; sweetheart.
• bells7n. Ship's bells; the strokes on a ship's bell, every half-hour, to mark...
• belly10n. The abdomen (especially a fat one).
• below10prep. Lower in spatial position than.
• belta7adj. Fantastic; excellent.

BEM

• beman9v. To furnish or fill with men; man.
• bemba11n. A type of folk drum used in Trinidad and Tobago.

BEN

• bench12n. A long seat with or without a back, found for example in parks and...
• benda8n. An old Guinean unit of mass, equivalent to 0.0642 kilograms.
• bends8n. The thickest and strongest planks in a wooden ship's side, wales.
• bendy11adj. Having the ability to be bent easily.
• benet7v. To catch in a net; ensnare.
• benga8n. A genre of Kenyan popular music in an urban style associated with...
• benim9v. To take away; rob; deprive; ravish.
• benna7n. A calypso-like genre of traditional music from Antigua and Barbuda.
• benne7n. Sesame.
• benny10n. An amphetamine tablet.
• bento7n. A Japanese takeaway lunch served in a box, often with the food arranged...
• benzo16adj. Of a ring compound, especially a heterocycle, which also has a fused...

BER

• beret7n. A type of round, brimless cap with a soft top and a headband to secure...
• bergh11n. A hill.
• bergy11adj. Containing icebergs.
• berko11adj. Mad; crazy, especially with rage.
• beroe7n. A small, oval, transparent jellyfish, of genus Beroe (phylum...
• berra7v. Had better.
• berry10n. A small succulent fruit, of any one of many varieties.
• berth10n. A place for a vessel to lie at anchor or to moor.
• beryl10n. A mineral of pegmatite deposits, often used as a gemstone (molecular...

BES

• besan7n. Gram flour, as used in Indian and Burmese cuisine.
• beset7v. To assail or attack (someone) from all sides; to set about.
• besom9n. A broom made from a bundle of twigs tied onto a shaft.
• bessa7n. A former copper coin of Ethiopia.
• bests7interj. A polite, formulaic end to a letter or email.

BET

• betel7n. Either of two (parts of) plants often used in combination.
• bethe10n. A unit of energy equivalent to 10⁵¹ ergs, or 10⁴⁴ joules.
• betta7n. Any fish of the genus Betta, especially Betta splendens (the Siamese...
• betty10n. A short bar used by thieves to wrench doors open; a jimmy.

BEV

• bevan10n. A bogan.
• bevel10n. An edge that is canted, one that is not a 90-degree angle; a chamfer.
• bever10n. A drink.
• bevor10n. A portion of plate armour to protect the lower face and the neck...
• bevvy16v. To get drunk.

BEZ

• bezel16n. The sloping edge or face on a cutting tool.

Questions about these words

How many five-letter words that start with BE are there?

Word.ws lists 85 five-letter words that start with BE, plus 83 rare ones.

What are common five-letter words that start with BE?

being, below, beach, begin, bench, begun, beast and beats.

Which of the five-letter words that start with BE has the highest letter score?

bezel scores 16 points with the standard letter tile values.

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