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5-Letter Words Starting with CLO

There are 12 five-letter words that start with CLO on Word.ws, from cloak to cloze. The most common are close, cloud, clock, cloth and clown.

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

All 12 five-letter words that start with CLO

  • cloak11n. A long outer garment worn over the shoulders covering the back; a cape...
  • clock13n. A chronometer, an instrument that measures time, particularly the time...
  • clomp11n. The sound of feet hitting the ground loudly.
  • clone7n. A living organism (originally a plant) produced asexually from a single...
  • clonk11n. The abrupt sound of two hard objects coming into contact.
  • close7v. To move a thing, or part of a thing, nearer to another so that the gap...
  • cloth10n. A fabric, usually made of woven, knitted, or felted fibres or...
  • cloud8n. A visible mass of water droplets suspended in the air.
  • clout7n. Influence or effectiveness, especially political.
  • clove10n. A very pungent aromatic spice, the unexpanded flower bud of the clove...
  • clown10n. A slapstick performance artist often associated with a circus and...
  • cloze16n. A form of written examination in which candidates are required to...
10 rare five-letter words that start with CLO

Questions about these words

How many five-letter words that start with CLO are there?
Word.ws lists 12 five-letter words that start with CLO, plus 10 rare ones.
What are common five-letter words that start with CLO?
close, cloud, clock, cloth, clown, clone, cloak and clout.
Which of the five-letter words that start with CLO has the highest letter score?
cloze 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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