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5-Letter Words Starting with HAN

There are 12 five-letter words that start with HAN on Word.ws, from hanai to hanza. The most common are handy, hanif, handi, hanse and hance.

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

All 12 five-letter words that start with HAN

  • hanai8n. The practice of traditional Hawaiian adoption of one child into another...
  • hance10n. A curve or arc, especially in architecture or in the design of a ship.
  • handi9n. A deep, narrow-mouthed vessel used in north Indian, Pakistani and...
  • handy12adj. Easy to use, useful.
  • hanfu11n. Traditional Han Chinese clothing.
  • hangi9n. A traditional Māori pit oven, in which (suitably wrapped) raw food is...
  • hanif11n. Any person, from before the time of Muhammad, who followed a non-pagan...
  • hanja15n. The Han character script used to write Korean, particularly in...
  • hanko12n. A traditional Japanese stamp bearing a personal seal, used (in place of...
  • hanok12n. A type of traditional Korean house first designed and built in the 14th...
  • hanse8n. The guildhall of a Hanse.
  • hanza17n. Boscia senegalensis, a perennial woody plant species of the genus...
2 rare five-letter words that start with HAN

Questions about these words

How many five-letter words that start with HAN are there?
Word.ws lists 12 five-letter words that start with HAN, plus 2 rare ones.
What are common five-letter words that start with HAN?
handy, hanif, handi, hanse, hance, hanko, hanja and hanai.
Which of the five-letter words that start with HAN has the highest letter score?
hanza scores 17 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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