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5-Letter Words Starting with GRI

There are 16 five-letter words that start with GRI on Word.ws, from grice to grizz. The most common are grief, grind, grill, grime and grits.

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

All 16 five-letter words that start with GRI

  • grice8n. A pig, especially a young pig, or its meat; sometimes specifically, a...
  • grief9n. Suffering, hardship.
  • griff12n. Griffin, (white) newcomer.
  • grifo9n. Cannabis.
  • grift9n. A confidence game or swindle.
  • grill6n. A grating; a grid of wire or a sheet of material with a pattern of...
  • grime8n. Dirt, grease, soot, etc. that is ingrained and difficult to remove.
  • grimy11adj. Stained or covered with grime.
  • grind7v. To reduce to smaller pieces by crushing with lateral motion.
  • griot6n. A West African storyteller who passes on oral traditions; a wandering...
  • gripe8v. To complain; to whine.
  • grise6n. A step (in a flight of stairs); a degree.
  • grist6n. Grain that is to be ground in a mill.
  • grito6n. A Mexican outcry characterized by ululation, used as an expression...
  • grits6n. Coarsely ground hominy which is boiled and eaten, primarily in the...
  • grizz24n. A grizzly bear.
6 rare five-letter words that start with GRI

Questions about these words

How many five-letter words that start with GRI are there?
Word.ws lists 16 five-letter words that start with GRI, plus 6 rare ones.
What are common five-letter words that start with GRI?
grief, grind, grill, grime, grits, gripe, grimy and grist.
Which of the five-letter words that start with GRI has the highest letter score?
grizz scores 24 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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