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5-Letter Words Starting with FLU

There are 10 five-letter words that start with FLU on Word.ws, from flues to flute. The most common are fluid, flush, flute, fluff and fluke.

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

All 10 five-letter words that start with FLU

  • flues8n. Bits of down.
  • fluff14n. Anything light, soft or fuzzy, especially fur, hair, feathers.
  • fluid9n. Any substance which can flow with relative ease, tends to assume the...
  • fluke12n. A lucky or improbable occurrence that could probably never be repeated.
  • flume10n. A ravine or gorge, usually one with water running through.
  • flump12interj. A sound of something moving or falling heavily, or with a dull sound.
  • flunk12v. Of a student, to fail a class; to not pass.
  • fluor8n. The mineral fluorite.
  • flush11n. A group of birds that have suddenly started up from undergrowth, trees...
  • flute8n. A woodwind instrument consisting of a tube with a row of holes that...
7 rare five-letter words that start with FLU

Questions about these words

How many five-letter words that start with FLU are there?
Word.ws lists 10 five-letter words that start with FLU, plus 7 rare ones.
What are common five-letter words that start with FLU?
fluid, flush, flute, fluff, fluke, flume, fluor and flunk.
Which of the five-letter words that start with FLU has the highest letter score?
fluff 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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