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5-Letter Words Starting with DRO

There are 12 five-letter words that start with DRO on Word.ws, from droid to drown. The most common are drove, drone, drown, droid and drool.

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

All 12 five-letter words that start with 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.
8 rare five-letter words that start with DRO

Questions about these words

How many five-letter words that start with DRO are there?
Word.ws lists 12 five-letter words that start with DRO, plus 8 rare ones.
What are common five-letter words that start with DRO?
drove, drone, drown, droid, drool, droll, droop and droit.
Which of the five-letter words that start with DRO has the highest letter score?
drown scores 9 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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