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5-Letter Words Starting with CE

There are 18 five-letter words that start with CE on Word.ws, from cease to cetyl. The most common are cease, cedar, cecil, cello and celeb.

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

All 18 five-letter words that start with CE

  • cease7v. To stop.
  • cecil9n. A fried ball of minced meat, breadcrumbs, onions, etc.
  • cedar8n. A coniferous tree of the genus Cedrus in the family Pinaceae.
  • ceder8n. One who cedes something.
  • ceiba9n. Any tree of the genus Ceiba, the best-known of which is Ceiba pentandra.
  • ceili7n. A social event with traditional Irish or Scottish music and dancing.
  • celeb9n. A celebrity; a famous person, a one who is celebrated.
  • cella7n. The central, enclosed part of an ancient temple, as distinguished from...
  • cello7n. A large unfretted stringed instrument of the violin family with four...
  • celly10n. A cellmate.
  • cense7v. To perfume with incense.
  • cento7n. A hotchpotch, a mixture; especially a piece made up of quotations from...
  • ceria7n. The compound cerium(IV) oxide.
  • ceric9adj. Containing cerium with valence four.
  • certi7adj. Fashionable, cool.
  • cesta7n. A hook-shaped basket used to catch and throw the ball in jai alai.
  • cetin7n. The white, waxy constituent of spermaceti.
  • cetyl10n. The univalent hexadecyl radical C₁₆H₃₃- present in many waxes.
11 rare five-letter words that start with CE

Questions about these words

How many five-letter words that start with CE are there?
Word.ws lists 18 five-letter words that start with CE, plus 11 rare ones.
What are common five-letter words that start with CE?
cease, cedar, cecil, cello, celeb, cento, cella and celly.
Which of the five-letter words that start with CE has the highest letter score?
cetyl scores 10 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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