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5-Letter Words Starting with CU

There are 38 five-letter words that start with CU on Word.ws, from cubby to cutup. The most common are curve, curse, curry, cubic and curly.

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

All 38 five-letter words that start with CU

  • cubby14n. A small, confined space.
  • cubeb11n. A tailed pepper plant (Piper cubeba), an Indonesian plant cultivated...
  • cubed10adj. Raised to the third power.
  • cuber9n. Any device designed to cut things into cubes.
  • cubes9n. Testicles.
  • cubic11adj. Used in the names of units of volume formed by multiplying a unit of...
  • cubie9n. One of the smaller cubes making up a Rubik's cube.
  • cubit9n. The distance from the elbow to the tip of the middle finger used as an...
  • cuddy12n. A cabin, for the use of the captain, in the after part of a sailing...
  • culet7n. A component of armor, consisting of overlapping plates designed to...
  • culex14n. Any of various mosquitoes of the genus Culex, some of which carry...
  • cully10n. A companion.
  • culpa9n. Negligence or fault, as distinguishable from dolus (deceit, fraud)...
  • culty10adj. Resembling a cult.
  • cumin9n. The flowering plant Cuminum cyminum, in the family Apiaceae.
  • cupid10n. A putto carrying a bow and arrow, representing Cupid or love.
  • cuppa11n. A cup of tea (or sometimes any hot drink).
  • cuppy14adj. Having the form of a cup.
  • cupro9n. Rayon made by the cuproammonium process.
  • curdy11adj. Like, or full of, curd; coagulated.
  • curer7n. A healer.
  • curia7n. Any of the subdivisions of a tribe in ancient Rome.
  • curie7n. 3.7×10¹⁰ decays per second, as a unit of radioactivity. Symbol Ci.
  • curio7n. A strange and interesting object; something that evokes curiosity.
  • curls7n. Specifically, a body of curly hair on someone's head.
  • curly10adj. Having curls.
  • curry10n. One of a family of dishes originating from Indian cuisine, flavored by...
  • curse7n. A supernatural detriment or hindrance; a bane.
  • curva10n. The bank of seats behind the goal, especially in continental European...
  • curve10n. A bend, such as in a road.
  • curvy13adj. Having curves.
  • cushy13adj. Making few demands; comfortable, easy.
  • cutch12n. A preservative, made from catechu gum boiled in water, used to prolong...
  • cutes7n. Cuteness.
  • cutie7n. A cute person or animal.
  • cutis7n. The true skin, underlying the epidermis.
  • cutty10adj. Short, shortened, or small; curtailed.
  • cutup9n. Someone who cuts up; someone who acts boisterously or clownishly, for...
37 rare five-letter words that start with CU

Questions about these words

How many five-letter words that start with CU are there?
Word.ws lists 38 five-letter words that start with CU, plus 37 rare ones.
What are common five-letter words that start with CU?
curve, curse, curry, cubic, curly, cubes, curls and cutie.
Which of the five-letter words that start with CU has the highest letter score?
cuppy scores 14 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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