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5-Letter Words Starting with DR

There are 44 five-letter words that start with DR on Word.ws, from draco to dryly. The most common are drive, dream, drink, dress and drama.

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All 44 five-letter words that start with DR

DRA

  • draco8n. A short-barreled Kalashnikov-pattern rifle.
  • draft9n. A current of air, usually coming into a room or vehicle.
  • drain6n. A conduit allowing liquid to flow out of an otherwise contained volume...
  • drake10n. A male duck (bird).
  • drama8n. A composition, normally in prose, telling a story and intended to be...
  • drank10n. Dextromethorphan.
  • drape8n. A curtain; a drapery.
  • drash9n. An exegesis.
  • drawl9v. To drag on slowly and heavily; to dawdle or while away time indolently.
  • drawn9adj. Depleted.

DRE

  • dread7v. To fear greatly.
  • dream8n. Imaginary events seen in the mind while sleeping.
  • drear6adj. Dreary.
  • dreck12n. Trash; rubbish; useless or worthless stuff.
  • dregs7n. The sediment settled at the bottom of a liquid; the lees in a container...
  • dress6v. To put clothes (or, formerly, armour) on (oneself or someone, a doll, a...

DRI

  • dried7adj. Without water or moisture, said of something that has previously been...
  • drift9n. Anything driven at random.
  • drill6v. To create (a hole) by removing material with a drill (tool).
  • dring7v. To press; squeeze; crowd; push.
  • drink10v. To consume (a liquid) through the mouth.
  • drive9v. To operate (a wheeled motorized vehicle).

DRO

  • droid7n. A robot, especially one made with some physical resemblance to a human...
  • droit6n. A legal right or entitlement.
  • droll6adj. Oddly humorous; whimsical, amusing in a quaint way; waggish.
  • drome8n. The crab plover, Dromas ardeola, of North Africa.
  • drone6n. A male hymenopteran (ant, bee, hornet, or wasp), whose sole primary...
  • droog7n. A violent young gang member or a hooligan.
  • drool6v. To secrete saliva, especially in anticipation of food.
  • droop8v. To hang downward; to sag.
  • dross6n. Residue that forms as a scum on the surface of molten metal from...
  • drott6n. An earthmoving machine similar to a bulldozer, but with a front bucket...
  • drove9n. The herd being driven in a cattle (or other animal) drive; thus, a...
  • drown9v. To die from suffocation while immersed in water or other fluid.

DRU

  • druid7n. One of an order of priests among certain groups of Celts before the...
  • drunk10adj. Intoxicated as a result of excessive alcohol consumption, usually by...
  • drupe8n. A kind of fruit, with a fleshy exterior, formed from the exocarp and...
  • drury9n. Love, especially sexual love; courtship, sex.
  • druse6n. A rock surface with a crust of tiny crystals.
  • drusy9adj. Having a druse.

DRY

  • dryad10n. A female tree spirit; a woodnymph or tree nymph.
  • dryas9n. Any of several plants of the genus Dryas; the mountain avens.
  • dryer9n. One who, or that which, dries; any device or facility employed to...
  • dryly12adv. In a dry manner.
22 rare five-letter words that start with DR

Questions about these words

How many five-letter words that start with DR are there?
Word.ws lists 44 five-letter words that start with DR, plus 22 rare ones.
What are common five-letter words that start with DR?
drive, dream, drink, dress, drama, draft, drunk and drawn.
Which of the five-letter words that start with DR has the highest letter score?
dryly scores 12 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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