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5-Letter Words Starting with KU

There are 20 five-letter words that start with KU on Word.ws, from kubie to kutum. The most common are kudos, kurta, kutch, kudzu and kugel.

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

All 20 five-letter words that start with KU

  • kubie11n. Kubasa, especially when served on a hot dog bun.
  • kudan10n. A yokai with the head of a human and the body of a bovine.
  • kudos10n. Praise; accolades.
  • kudzu19n. An Asian vine (several species in the genus Pueraria, but mostly...
  • kugel10n. A traditional savoury or sweet Jewish dish consisting of a baked...
  • kukri13n. A curved Nepalese knife used especially by Gurkha fighters; many...
  • kukui13n. Aleurites moluccana, the candlenut tree.
  • kulak13n. A prosperous peasant in the Russian Empire or the Soviet Union, who...
  • kulfi12n. A flavoured frozen dessert of South Asia, made from milk and resembling...
  • kunai9n. A Japanese tool and weapon, possibly derived from the masonry trowel...
  • kunga10n. A kind of equid in ancient Mesopotamia (probably a donkey-onager cross).
  • kunik13n. Synonym of Eskimo kiss.
  • kural9n. A Tamil poetic couplet.
  • kursi9n. A stand for holding the Qur'an for readings.
  • kurta9n. A traditional article of clothing worn in Afghanistan, Bangladesh...
  • kurus9n. A subdivision of currency, equal to one hundredth of a Turkish lira.
  • kusha12n. A grass of species Desmostachya bipinnata.
  • kusum11n. A tree of species Schleichera oleosa, from whose seeds a multipurpose...
  • kutch14n. A packet or pile of vellum leaves in which gold is beaten into thin...
  • kutum11n. A freshwater fish (Rutilus kutum) native to the Caspian Sea.
11 rare five-letter words that start with KU

Questions about these words

How many five-letter words that start with KU are there?
Word.ws lists 20 five-letter words that start with KU, plus 11 rare ones.
What are common five-letter words that start with KU?
kudos, kurta, kutch, kudzu, kugel, kulak, kukui and kunai.
Which of the five-letter words that start with KU has the highest letter score?
kudzu scores 19 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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