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5-Letter Words Starting with CHI

There are 28 five-letter words that start with CHI on Word.ws, from chiao to chive. The most common are child, chief, china, chips and chill.

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

All 28 five-letter words that start with CHI

  • chiao10n. A Taoist ritual of cosmic renewal.
  • chibi12n. A child-like character with exaggerated features, particularly in anime.
  • chica12n. A Latin-American girl; a Latina.
  • chich15n. The chickpea.
  • chick16n. A young bird.
  • chico12n. A Latin-American boy; a Latino.
  • chide11v. To admonish in blame; to reproach angrily.
  • chief13n. The leader or head of a tribe, organisation, business unit, or other...
  • chiff16n. The characteristic sound made as part of the attack of certain notes on...
  • chigi11n. In Japanese architecture, a V-shaped finial used mainly on Shinto...
  • child11n. A person who has not yet reached adulthood, whether natural (puberty)...
  • chili10n. The pungent, spicy fresh or dried fruit of any of several cultivated...
  • chill10n. A moderate, but uncomfortable and penetrating coldness.
  • chime12n. A musical instrument producing a sound when struck, similar to a bell...
  • chimo12interj. Hello; goodbye.
  • china10n. Synonym of porcelain, a hard white translucent ceramic made from...
  • chine10n. The top of a ridge.
  • ching11n. A pair of small bowl-shaped finger cymbals made of thick and heavy...
  • chink14n. A narrow opening such as a fissure or crack.
  • chino10n. A coarse cotton fabric commonly used to make trousers and uniforms.
  • chips12n. A carpenter.
  • chirk14v. To become happier.
  • chiro10n. A chiropractor.
  • chirp12n. A short, sharp or high note or noise, as of a bird or insect.
  • chiru10n. The Tibetan antelope, Pantholops hodgsonii.
  • chism12n. A shoot or sprout; a bud.
  • chiva13n. Heroin.
  • chive13n. A perennial plant, Allium schoenoprasum, related to the onion.
5 rare five-letter words that start with CHI

Questions about these words

How many five-letter words that start with CHI are there?
Word.ws lists 28 five-letter words that start with CHI, plus 5 rare ones.
What are common five-letter words that start with CHI?
child, chief, china, chips, chill, chick, chili and ching.
Which of the five-letter words that start with CHI has the highest letter score?
chiff scores 16 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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