Word.ws English Dictionary

5-Letter Words Starting with EN

There are 23 five-letter words that start with EN on Word.ws, from enact to envoy. The most common are enjoy, ended, enter, enemy and entry.

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

All 23 five-letter words that start with EN

  • enact7v. To make (a bill) into law.
  • encik11n. Informal term of address for a male warrant officer in the Singapore...
  • ended7adj. Having (a specified kind or number of) ends.
  • ender6n. Something which ends another thing.
  • endif9n. A directive, in several programming languages, that marks the end of an...
  • endow9v. To give property to (someone) as a gift; specifically, to provide (a...
  • endue6v. Of a person or thing: to take on (a different form); to adopt, to...
  • enema7n. An injection of fluid into the large intestine by way of the rectum...
  • enemy10n. Someone who is hostile to, feels hatred towards, opposes the interests...
  • engie6n. An engineer.
  • enjoy15v. To receive pleasure or satisfaction from something.
  • ennui5n. A gripping listlessness or melancholia caused by boredom; depression.
  • enoch10n. An iron sledgehammer.
  • enoki9n. An enoki mushroom (Flammulina velutipes).
  • enone5n. Any ketone having a neighbouring double bond.
  • enrol5v. UK, New Zealand, Australia, Ireland, and Canada standard spelling of...
  • ensue5v. To occur afterwards, as a result or effect.
  • enter5v. To go or come into an enclosed or partially enclosed space.
  • entry8n. The act of entering.
  • enure5v. To inure; to make accustomed or desensitized to something unpleasant...
  • envie8n. A strong desire or craving, especially for (a particular kind of) food.
  • envoi8n. A short stanza at the end of a poem, used either to address a person or...
  • envoy11n. A diplomatic agent of the second rank, next in status after an...
19 rare five-letter words that start with EN

Questions about these words

How many five-letter words that start with EN are there?
Word.ws lists 23 five-letter words that start with EN, plus 19 rare ones.
What are common five-letter words that start with EN?
enjoy, ended, enter, enemy, entry, envoy, enact and enoch.
Which of the five-letter words that start with EN has the highest letter score?
enjoy scores 15 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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