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5-Letter Words Starting with EM

There are 16 five-letter words that start with EM on Word.ws, from emacs to emule. The most common are email, empty, emery, emoji and ember.

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

All 16 five-letter words that start with EM

  • emacs9n. Any implementation or reimplementation of Emacs.
  • email7n. A system for sending messages and datas by means of a computer network...
  • emaki11n. A Japanese picture scroll, a handscroll containing an illustrated...
  • embar9v. To enclose (as though behind bars); to imprison.
  • embed10v. To lay (something) as in a bed; to lay in surrounding matter; to bed.
  • ember9n. A piece of coal or wood glowing by heat; a hot coal.
  • emcee9n. Master of ceremonies.
  • emend8v. To correct and revise (text or a document).
  • emerg8n. The emergency department of a hospital.
  • emery10n. An impure type of corundum, often used for sanding or polishing.
  • emmer9n. Any member of the species Triticum dicoccum, one of a group of hulled...
  • emmet9n. An ant.
  • emoji14n. A digital graphic icon with a unique code point used to represent a...
  • emote7v. To display or express (emotions, mental states, etc.) openly...
  • empty12adj. Devoid of content; containing nothing or nobody; vacant.
  • emule7v. To emulate.
16 rare five-letter words that start with EM

Questions about these words

How many five-letter words that start with EM are there?
Word.ws lists 16 five-letter words that start with EM, plus 16 rare ones.
What are common five-letter words that start with EM?
email, empty, emery, emoji, ember, embed, emmet and emcee.
Which of the five-letter words that start with EM has the highest letter score?
emoji 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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