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5-Letter Words Starting with FE

There are 36 five-letter words that start with FE on Word.ws, from feast to fewer. The most common are feels, fewer, fever, fence and ferry.

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

All 36 five-letter words that start with FE

  • feast8n. A holiday, festival, especially a religious one.
  • fecal10adj. Of or relating to feces.
  • feces10n. Digested waste material (typically solid or semi-solid) discharged from...
  • feels8n. Feelings; emotions; especially, tender sentiment.
  • feely11adj. Soft; smooth; velvety.
  • feign9v. To make a false show or pretence of; to counterfeit or simulate.
  • feint8n. A movement made to confuse an opponent; a dummy.
  • feist8n. A small, snappy, belligerent mixed-breed dog; a feist dog.
  • felid9n. Any member of the cat family (Felidae).
  • fella8n. Used as a general intensifier; a pfella.
  • felly11n. The rim of a wooden wheel, supported by the spokes.
  • felon8adj. Of a person or animal, their actions, thoughts, etc.: brutal, cruel...
  • felty11adj. Of, pertaining to, or similar to felt.
  • femme12n. A woman; a wife; (now chiefly Canada, US) a young woman or girl.
  • femmy15adj. Resembling or characteristic of a femme (a feminine gay man or lesbian).
  • femur10n. A thighbone.
  • fenby13n. A feminine non-binary person.
  • fence10n. A thin artificial barrier that separates two pieces of land or forms a...
  • fenny11adj. Characteristic of or resembling a fen (“characteristically alkaline...
  • fenty11n. Fentanyl.
  • feral8adj. Wild; untamed.
  • feria8n. A weekday on a Church calendar on which no feast is observed.
  • fermi10n. An obsolete name of the unit of length equal to one femtometre (10⁻¹⁵...
  • ferny11adj. Of or pertaining to ferns.
  • ferry11v. To carry; transport; convey.
  • festa8n. A public holiday or feast day in Italy, Portugal, etc.
  • festy11adj. Disgusting.
  • fetal8adj. Pertaining to, or connected with, a fetus.
  • fetch13v. To retrieve; to bear towards; to go and get.
  • feted9adj. Honoured; celebrated.
  • fetid9adj. Foul-smelling, stinking.
  • fetti8n. Money.
  • fetty11n. Fentanyl.
  • fetus8n. An unborn or unhatched vertebrate showing signs of the mature animal.
  • fever11n. A higher than normal body temperature of a person (or, generally, a...
  • fewer11det. Less; a smaller amount of something non-integral commonly expressed as...
22 rare five-letter words that start with FE

Questions about these words

How many five-letter words that start with FE are there?
Word.ws lists 36 five-letter words that start with FE, plus 22 rare ones.
What are common five-letter words that start with FE?
feels, fewer, fever, fence, ferry, feast, fetch and fetus.
Which of the five-letter words that start with FE has the highest letter score?
femmy 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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