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5-Letter Words Starting with CLA

There are 15 five-letter words that start with CLA on Word.ws, from clack to clave. The most common are class, claim, clash, clamp and clasp.

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

All 15 five-letter words that start with CLA

  • clack13n. An abrupt, sharp sound, especially one made by two hard objects...
  • clade8n. A group of animals or other organisms derived from a common ancestor...
  • claes7n. Clothes.
  • claim9n. A demand of ownership made for something.
  • clamp11n. A brace, band, or clasp for strengthening or holding things that are...
  • clang8n. A loud, ringing sound, like that made by free-hanging metal objects...
  • clank11n. A loud, hard sound of metal hitting metal.
  • claro7n. A cigar whose wrapper is very light tan or yellowish.
  • clary10n. Clary sage (Salvia sclarea).
  • clash10n. A loud sound, like the crashing together of metal objects; a crash.
  • clasp9n. A device with interlocking parts used for fastening things together...
  • class7n. A group, collection, category or set sharing characteristics or...
  • clast7n. A fragment of rock that was broken from a larger rock or rock unit.
  • clava10n. Synonym of gracile tubercle.
  • clave10n. A characteristic pattern of beats, especially the 3-2 son clave.
7 rare five-letter words that start with CLA

Questions about these words

How many five-letter words that start with CLA are there?
Word.ws lists 15 five-letter words that start with CLA, plus 7 rare ones.
What are common five-letter words that start with CLA?
class, claim, clash, clamp, clasp, clary, clank and clang.
Which of the five-letter words that start with CLA has the highest letter score?
clack scores 13 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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