5-Letter Words Starting with CAN
There are 13 five-letter words that start with CAN on Word.ws, from canal to canty. The most common are candy, canal, canon, canoe and canes.
Meanings from Wiktionary. Not an official Scrabble, Words With Friends or Wordle word list.
All 13 five-letter words that start with CAN
- canal7n. An artificial waterway or artificially improved river used for travel...
- candy11n. Crystallized sugar formed by boiling down sugar syrup.
- caned8adj. Intoxicated by alcohol or drugs.
- caner7n. One who canes.
- canes7n. Bamboo plants of genus Arundinaria, the sole temperate genus of bamboo...
- canid8n. Any member of the family Canidae, including canines (dogs, wolves...
- canna7n. Any member of the genus Canna of tropical plants with large leaves and...
- canny10adj. Careful, prudent, cautious.
- canoe7n. A small long and narrow boat, propelled by one or more people...
- canon7n. A generally accepted principle; a rule.
- canso7n. A love song sung by a troubadour.
- canto7n. One of the chief divisions of a long poem; a book.
- canty10adj. Lively; cheerful; merry; brisk.
1 rare five-letter words that start with CAN
Questions about these words
- How many five-letter words that start with CAN are there?
- Word.ws lists 13 five-letter words that start with CAN, plus 1 rare ones.
- What are common five-letter words that start with CAN?
- candy, canal, canon, canoe, canes, canny, canto and canna.
- Which of the five-letter words that start with CAN has the highest letter score?
- candy 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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