Word.ws English Dictionary

5-Letter Words Starting with EL

There are 23 five-letter words that start with EL on Word.ws, from elain to elver. The most common are elite, elder, ellen, elect and elbow.

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

All 23 five-letter words that start with EL

  • elain5n. Eleoptene.
  • eland6n. A genus of large South African antelope (Taurotragus), valued both for...
  • elate5v. To make joyful or proud.
  • elbow10n. The joint between the upper arm and the forearm.
  • elden6v. To advance in eld or old age; to grow older; to age.
  • elder6adj. Closer to the dealer, i.e. receiving cards earlier than others.
  • elect7n. One chosen or set apart.
  • elegy9n. A mournful or plaintive poem; a funeral song; a poem of lamentation.
  • elemi7n. A tree, Canarium luzonicum, native to the Philippines.
  • elfen8adj. Belonging to, or relating to, elves.
  • elfin8n. An elf; an inhabitant of fairy-land.
  • elide6v. To leave out or omit (something).
  • elite5adj. Of high birth or social position; aristocratic or patrician.
  • ellen5n. Strength vouchsafed; comfort; grace.
  • elong6v. To lengthen out; to prolong.
  • elope7v. Of a married or engaged person, to run away from home with a paramour.
  • elote5n. Corn (maize) harvested before reaching full maturity.
  • elsen5n. An awl, a pointed tool.
  • elude6v. To evade or escape from (someone or something), especially by using...
  • elute5v. To separate one substance from another by means of a solvent; to wash...
  • elvan8adj. Of or relating to certain veins of feldspathic or porphyritic rock...
  • elven8n. Originally, a female elf, a fairy, a nymph; (by extension) any elf.
  • elver8n. A young eel.
12 rare five-letter words that start with EL

Questions about these words

How many five-letter words that start with EL are there?
Word.ws lists 23 five-letter words that start with EL, plus 12 rare ones.
What are common five-letter words that start with EL?
elite, elder, ellen, elect, elbow, elude, elegy and elven.
Which of the five-letter words that start with EL has the highest letter score?
elbow scores 10 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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