5-Letter Words Starting with EX
There are 18 five-letter words that start with EX on Word.ws, from exact to exurb. The most common are extra, exist, exact, exile and excel.
Meanings from Wiktionary. Not an official Scrabble, Words With Friends or Wordle word list.
All 18 five-letter words that start with EX
- exact14adj. Precisely agreeing with a standard, a fact, or the truth; perfectly...
- exalt12v. To honor; to hold in high esteem; to praise or worship.
- excel14v. To surpass someone or something; to be better or do better than someone...
- exeat12n. A license or permit for absence from a university or a religious house...
- exert12v. To make use of, to apply, especially of something nonmaterial; to bring...
- exhib17n. An exhibitor.
- exile12n. The state of being banished from one's home or country.
- exist12v. To be; have existence; have being or reality.
- exits12n. Income, returns, revenue.
- exome14n. The complete exon content of an organism or individual; the subset of...
- expat14n. An expatriate; a person temporarily residing in a foreign nation, often...
- expel14v. To eject.
- extol12v. To praise; to make high.
- extra12adj. Beyond what is due, usual, expected, or necessary; extraneous...
- extro12n. Synonym of outro (“a portion of music at the end of a song”).
- exude13v. To discharge through pores or incisions, as moisture or other liquid...
- exult12v. To rejoice; to be very happy, especially in triumph; to triumph (over).
- exurb14n. A residential area beyond the suburbs.
14 rare five-letter words that start with EX
Questions about these words
- How many five-letter words that start with EX are there?
- Word.ws lists 18 five-letter words that start with EX, plus 14 rare ones.
- What are common five-letter words that start with EX?
- extra, exist, exact, exile, excel, exits, exert and expel.
- Which of the five-letter words that start with EX has the highest letter score?
- exhib scores 17 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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