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5-Letter Words Starting with JA

There are 33 five-letter words that start with JA on Word.ws, from jabot to jazzy. The most common are japan, jacks, jazzy, jaffa and jaded.

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All 33 five-letter words that start with JA

  • jabot14n. A cascading or ornamental frill down the front of a blouse, shirt, etc.
  • jacko18n. Laughing kookaburra.
  • jacks18n. A pair of jacks.
  • jacky21n. A sailor.
  • jaded14adj. Bored or lacking enthusiasm, typically after having been overexposed...
  • jadoo13n. Magic, sorcery.
  • jaffa18n. A type of sweet orange, normally seedless.
  • jagat13n. The material or physical world as subjectively experienced.
  • jaggy17adj. Jagged, toothed or serrated.
  • jagir13n. An assignment of the produce and income of a particular district or...
  • jagua13n. A tree of species Genipa americana, native to the tropical forests of...
  • jaish15n. An army or legion.
  • jakes16n. A place to urinate and defecate: an outhouse or lavatory.
  • jakey19n. A homeless drunk.
  • jakie16n. A South American striped frog, Pseudis paradoxa, remarkable for having...
  • jaleo12n. A lively Andalusian dance.
  • jalsa12n. A rally.
  • jambe16n. A leg, of an animal or person.
  • jambu16adj. Cute, adorable or beautiful.
  • jammy19adj. Resembling jam in taste, texture, etc.
  • jamon14n. Spanish dry-cured ham.
  • jamun14n. Synonym of jambul.
  • janky19adj. Of poor quality.
  • japan14n. A hard black enamel varnish containing asphalt.
  • jarry15adj. Jarring, reverberating.
  • jatra12n. An annual village festival in Maharashtra, India.
  • jaunt12n. A short excursion for pleasure or refreshment; a ramble; a short...
  • javel15n. A vagabond.
  • jawab17n. An answer, especially a dismissal, or a woman's rejection of a marriage...
  • jawan15n. An infantryman; a soldier.
  • jawar15n. Sorghum, Indian millet (Sorghum bicolor).
  • jawed16adj. Having jaws.
  • jazzy33adj. In the style of jazz.
19 rare five-letter words that start with JA

Questions about these words

How many five-letter words that start with JA are there?
Word.ws lists 33 five-letter words that start with JA, plus 19 rare ones.
What are common five-letter words that start with JA?
japan, jacks, jazzy, jaffa, jaded, jacky, jaunt and jawed.
Which of the five-letter words that start with JA has the highest letter score?
jazzy scores 33 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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