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5-Letter Words Starting with CAP

There are 11 five-letter words that start with CAP on Word.ws, from caped to caput. The most common are capri, caper, caped, capel and capon.

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

All 11 five-letter words that start with CAP

  • caped10adj. Wearing a cape or capes.
  • capel9n. A composite stone (quartz, schorl, and hornblende) in the walls of tin...
  • caper9n. A playful leap or jump.
  • capiz18n. The windowpane oyster.
  • caple9n. A horse.
  • capon9n. A cockerel which has been gelded and fattened for the table.
  • cappa11n. The thick wall on the proximal side of the corpus of a pollen grain.
  • cappo11n. Synonym of capote (“coat”).
  • cappy14adj. Having, resembling, or relating to a cap (headwear).
  • capri9n. A deep shade of sky blue between cyan and azure.
  • caput9n. The head.
2 rare five-letter words that start with CAP

Questions about these words

How many five-letter words that start with CAP are there?
Word.ws lists 11 five-letter words that start with CAP, plus 2 rare ones.
What are common five-letter words that start with CAP?
capri, caper, caped, capel, capon, cappy, caput and capiz.
Which of the five-letter words that start with CAP has the highest letter score?
capiz scores 18 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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