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5-Letter Words Starting with FA

There are 58 five-letter words that start with FA on Word.ws, from fabby to fazed. The most common are faith, fault, falls, false and favor.

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All 58 five-letter words that start with FA

FAB

  • fabby15adj. Fabulous, very good, excellent.
  • fable10n. A fictitious narrative intended to enforce some useful truth or...

FAC

  • faced11adj. Having a specified type or number of faces.
  • facer10n. An unexpected and stunning blow or defeat.
  • facet10n. Any one of the flat surfaces cut into a gem.
  • facon10n. Vegetarian bacon; meat-free imitation bacon, generally made with tofu...

FAD

  • faddy13adj. Having characteristics of a fad.
  • faded10adj. That has lost some of its former vividness and colour.
  • fader9n. A device used to raise and lower sound volume.

FAE

  • faena8n. A series of passes performed by a matador with a muleta or a sword...

FAI

  • faint8adj. Lacking strength; weak; languid; inclined to lose consciousness.
  • fairs8interj. Fair enough; fair's fair.
  • fairy11n. A mythical being of human form with magical powers, known in many sizes...
  • faith11n. A trust or confidence in the intentions or abilities of a person...

FAK

  • faker12n. One who fakes something.
  • fakey15adj. Fake.
  • fakie12n. The riding backwards of the board, in the opposite stance.
  • fakir12n. A religious mendicant who owns no personal property.

FAL

  • fallo8n. The dispositive portion of a court's ruling, coming at the end of the...
  • falls8n. A waterfall.
  • false8adj. Untrue, not factual, factually incorrect.
  • faltu8adj. Useless; unnecessary; of no value or purpose.

FAM

  • famed11adj. Having fame; famous or noted.
  • famil10n. A free or low cost trip for travel agents or consultants, provided by a...

FAN

  • fancy13n. The imagination.
  • fango9n. Mud from the thermal springs at Battaglia in Italy, used to treat...
  • fanny11n. The buttocks; arguably the most nearly polite of several euphemisms.
  • fanon8n. A vestment reserved only for the Pope for use during a pontifical Mass.

FAP

  • fappy15adj. Overweight and fortunate with one's life.

FAQ

  • faqih20n. An expert in Islamic law.

FAR

  • farad9n. In the International System of Units, the derived unit of electrical...
  • farce10n. A style of humor marked by broad improbabilities with little regard to...
  • farcy13n. The horse disease glanders, especially its cutaneous form.
  • farer8n. One who fares or travels, a traveller, tripper.
  • farre8adj. Early Modern spelling of far.
  • farro8n. Emmer wheat (Triticum turgidum).
  • farry11v. To farrow; to give birth to a litter of piglets.
  • farse8n. A vernacular paraphrase inserted into Latin liturgy.
  • farty11adj. Resembling or characteristic of a fart; flatulent.

FAS

  • fasel8v. To unravel or become frayed.
  • fashy14adj. Espousing, characteristic of, or relating to fascism.
  • fasti8n. The calendar, which gave the days for festivals, courts, etc....

FAT

  • fatal8adj. Causing death or destruction.
  • fated9adj. Foreordained, predetermined, established in advance by fate.
  • fatha11n. In Arabic script, the vowel point for a, appearing as a diagonal line...
  • fathe11n. The diacritical mark ـَ (-a) used in the Persian script to denote the...
  • fatty11adj. Containing, composed of, or consisting of fat.
  • fatwa11n. A formal legal decree, opinion, or ruling issued by a mufti or other...

FAU

  • faugh12interj. An exclamation of contempt, or of disgust, especially for a smell.
  • fault8n. Culpability; the responsibility for a blameworthy event.
  • fauna8n. Animals considered as a group; especially those of a particular...
  • fauve11n. Synonym of fauvist.

FAV

  • favel11adj. Yellow or dun in colour.
  • favor11n. A kind or helpful deed; an instance of voluntarily assisting (someone).

FAW

FAX

  • faxed16adj. Having a head of hair; hairy.

FAY

  • fayre11n. A fair, a market.

FAZ

  • fazed18adj. Hesitant, frightened; daunted, disconcerted; perturbed, put off.
34 rare five-letter words that start with FA

Questions about these words

How many five-letter words that start with FA are there?
Word.ws lists 58 five-letter words that start with FA, plus 34 rare ones.
What are common five-letter words that start with FA?
faith, fault, falls, false, favor, faced, fancy and fatal.
Which of the five-letter words that start with FA has the highest letter score?
faqih scores 20 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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