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5-Letter Words Starting with CRU

There are 12 five-letter words that start with CRU on Word.ws, from cruck to crust. The most common are crush, cruel, crude, crust and crumb.

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

All 12 five-letter words that start with CRU

  • cruck13n. A sturdy timber with a curve or angle used for primary framing of a...
  • crude8adj. In a natural, untreated state.
  • crudo8n. A dish made of raw fish or seafood.
  • cruel7adj. Intentionally causing or reveling in pain and suffering; merciless...
  • cruet7n. A small bottle or container used to hold a condiment, such as oil...
  • cruft10n. Anything that is old or of inferior quality.
  • crumb11n. A small piece which breaks off from baked food (such as cake, biscuit...
  • crump11n. The sound of a muffled explosion.
  • crunk11adj. Crazy and intoxicated.
  • cruse7n. An oil lamp; a crusy.
  • crush10n. A violent collision or compression; a crash; destruction; ruin.
  • crust7n. A more solid, dense or hard layer on a surface or boundary.
4 rare five-letter words that start with CRU

Questions about these words

How many five-letter words that start with CRU are there?
Word.ws lists 12 five-letter words that start with CRU, plus 4 rare ones.
What are common five-letter words that start with CRU?
crush, cruel, crude, crust, crumb, crump, crunk and cruse.
Which of the five-letter words that start with CRU has the highest letter score?
cruck 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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