Word.ws English Dictionary

5-Letter Words Starting with BL

There are 63 five-letter words that start with BL on Word.ws, from black to blush. The most common are black, blood, block, blame and blind.

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All 63 five-letter words that start with BL

BLA

  • black13adj. Absorbing all light and reflecting none; dark and hueless.
  • blade8n. The (typically sharp-edged) part of a knife, sword, razor, or other...
  • blady11adj. Consisting of blades, or having prominent blades.
  • blahs10n. A feeling of boredom and a lack of motivation; depression.
  • blain7n. Skin swelling or sore; blister; blotch.
  • blake11adj. Yellow, as butter or cheese.
  • blame9n. Censure.
  • blanc9n. A white sauce of fat, broth, and vegetables, used especially for...
  • bland8adj. Having a soothing effect; not irritating or stimulating.
  • blank11adj. Free from writing, printing, or marks; having an empty space to be...
  • blaow10interj. A sudden explosion, gunshot, or similar sound.
  • blare7v. To play (a radio, recorded music, etc.) at extremely loud volume levels.
  • blarg8interj. Expressing frustration or disappointment.
  • blart7v. To sound loudly or harshly; to cry out, wail, lament.
  • blash10n. A heavy fall of rain.
  • blast7n. A violent gust of wind (in windy weather) or apparent wind (around a...
  • blaze16n. A fire, especially a fast-burning fire producing a lot of flames and...
  • blazy19adj. Blazing; resembling or characteristic of a blaze.

BLE

  • bleah10interj. Expresses negative feeling. The quality of the emotion expressed is...
  • bleak11adj. Without color; pale; pallid.
  • bleat7n. The characteristic cry of a sheep or a goat.
  • blech12interj. An imitation of the sound of gagging, used to express disgust or...
  • bleck13n. Any black fluid substance, as in blacking for leather, or black grease.
  • bleed8v. To shed blood through an injured blood vessel.
  • bleep9n. A brief high-pitched sound, as from some electronic device.
  • blegh11interj. An expression of disgust or nausea.
  • blend8n. A mixture of two or more things.
  • blerd8n. A black person who is a nerd.
  • bless7v. To make something holy by religious rite, sanctify.

BLI

  • blick13v. To shine, gleam.
  • blige8interj. Blimey.
  • blimp11n. An airship constructed with a nonrigid lifting agent container.
  • blind8adj. Unable to see, or only partially able to see.
  • bling8n. An ostentatious display of richness or style.
  • blini7n. A small pancake, of Russian origin, made from buckwheat flour...
  • blink11v. To close and reopen both eyes quickly.
  • blisk11n. An aircraft turbine engine rotor that has integral blades.
  • bliss7n. Perfect happiness.
  • blitz16n. A sudden attack, especially an air raid; usually with reference to the...
  • blive10adv. Quickly; forthwith.

BLO

  • bloat7v. To cause to become distended.
  • block13n. A substantial, often approximately cuboid, piece of any substance.
  • bloco9n. A type of Brazilian street carnival featuring traditional Brazilian...
  • bloke11n. A fellow, a man; especially an ordinary man, a man on the street.
  • blond8adj. Of a bleached or pale golden (light yellowish) colour.
  • blood8n. A vital liquid flowing in the bodies of many types of animals that...
  • blook11n. A book serialized on a blog (weblog) platform.
  • bloom9n. A blossom; the flower of a plant; an expanded bud.
  • bloop9v. To blow air bubbles or audibly slosh about in water.
  • blore7v. To cry; cry out; weep.
  • blown10adj. Distended, swollen, or inflated.
  • blowy13adj. Windy or breezy.

BLU

  • blued8adj. Having the property of having been chemically passivated.
  • bluer7n. A blue blazer, part of the school uniform at Harrow School.
  • blues7n. A feeling of sadness or depression.
  • bluet7n. Any of several different plants, from several genera, having bluish...
  • bluey10adj. Having a colour similar to blue.
  • bluff13n. An act of bluffing; a false expression of the strength of one’s...
  • blunt7adj. Having a thick edge or point; not sharp.
  • blurb9n. A short description of a book, film, or other work, written and used...
  • blurp9n. An explosive low-pitched sound resembling a burp.
  • blurt7v. To utter suddenly and unadvisedly; to speak quickly or without thought...
  • blush10n. An act of blushing; a pink or red glow on the face caused by...
21 rare five-letter words that start with BL

Questions about these words

How many five-letter words that start with BL are there?
Word.ws lists 63 five-letter words that start with BL, plus 21 rare ones.
What are common five-letter words that start with BL?
black, blood, block, blame, blind, blues, blast and blown.
Which of the five-letter words that start with BL has the highest letter score?
blazy scores 19 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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