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5-Letter Words Starting with CLI

There are 10 five-letter words that start with CLI on Word.ws, from click to clive. The most common are click, climb, cliff, clive and clint.

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All 10 five-letter words that start with CLI

  • click13n. A brief, sharp, not particularly loud, relatively high-pitched sound...
  • cliff13n. A vertical (or nearly vertical) rock face.
  • clift10n. A cliff.
  • climb11v. To traverse a slope or contour, either upwards (ascending) or downwards...
  • clime9n. A particular region defined by its weather or climate.
  • cline7n. A gradation in a character or phenotype within a species, deme, or...
  • cling8n. Fruit (especially peach) whose flesh adheres strongly to the pit.
  • clink11n. The sound of metal on metal, or glass on glass.
  • clint7n. The relatively flat part of a limestone pavement between the grikes.
  • clive10v. To climb; ascend.

Questions about these words

How many five-letter words that start with CLI are there?
Word.ws lists 10 five-letter words that start with CLI.
What are common five-letter words that start with CLI?
click, climb, cliff, clive, clint, cling, cline and clink.
Which of the five-letter words that start with CLI has the highest letter score?
cliff 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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