5-Letter Words Starting with GL
There are 38 five-letter words that start with GL on Word.ws, from glade to glyph. The most common are glass, glory, globe, glove and gloss.
Meanings from Wiktionary. Not an official Scrabble, Words With Friends or Wordle word list.
All 38 five-letter words that start with GL
- glade7n. An open passage through a wood; a grassy open or cleared space in a...
- glady10adj. Having glades.
- glamp10v. To practice glamping.
- gland7n. A specialized cell, group of cells, or organ of endothelial origin in...
- glans6n. The acorn or mast of the oak and similar fruits.
- glare6n. An intense, blinding light.
- glary9adj. Of a dazzling lustre; glaring; bright; shining.
- glass6n. An amorphous solid, often transparent substance, usually made by...
- glatt6adj. Having none of a particular kind of adhesion on the outside of its...
- glaze15n. The vitreous coating of pottery or porcelain; anything used as a...
- gleam8n. An appearance of light, especially one which is indistinct or small, or...
- glean6v. To collect (fruit, grain, or other produce) from a field, an orchard...
- gleba8n. The fleshy, spore-bearing inner mass of certain fungi.
- glebe8n. Turf; soil; ground; sod.
- gleek10n. A once-popular game of cards played by three people.
- gleen6v. To glisten; to gleam.
- glial6adj. Of or pertaining to glia.
- glide7v. To move softly, smoothly, or effortlessly.
- glint6n. A short flash of light, usually when reflected off a shiny surface.
- glitz15n. Garish, brilliant showiness.
- gloat6v. To exhibit a conspicuous (sometimes malevolent) pleasure or sense of...
- globe8n. The eyeball.
- glock12n. A glockenspiel.
- gloom8n. Darkness, dimness, or obscurity.
- gloop8n. Any gooey, viscous substance.
- glore6v. To glow, shine.
- glory9n. Great beauty and splendor.
- gloss6n. A surface shine or luster.
- glove9n. An item of clothing, covering all or part of the hand and fingers, but...
- glowy12adj. Glowing.
- gluck12v. To flow or cause to flow in a noisy series of spurts, as when liquid is...
- glued7adj. Entirely focused, unable to be distracted.
- gluer6n. One who glues.
- gluey9adj. Viscous and adhesive, as glue.
- glume8n. A basal, membranous, outer sterile husk or bract in the flowers of...
- gluon6n. A massless gauge boson that binds quarks together to form baryons...
- glute6n. A gluteal muscle.
- glyph14n. A figure carved in relief or incised, especially representing a sound...
31 rare five-letter words that start with GL
Questions about these words
- How many five-letter words that start with GL are there?
- Word.ws lists 38 five-letter words that start with GL, plus 31 rare ones.
- What are common five-letter words that start with GL?
- glass, glory, globe, glove, gloss, glued, gland and glare.
- Which of the five-letter words that start with GL has the highest letter score?
- glitz 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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