Word.ws English Dictionary

5-Letter Words Starting with LE

There are 58 five-letter words that start with LE on Word.ws, from leach to lexis. The most common are least, level, leave, learn and legal.

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All 58 five-letter words that start with LE

LEA

  • leach10n. A quantity of wood ashes, through which water passes, and thus imbibes...
  • leade6n. That portion of a firearm's barrel immediately in front of the chamber...
  • leafy11adj. Covered with leaves.
  • leaky12adj. Having leaks; not fully sealed.
  • leans5n. A dangerous sensory illusion where the pilot of an aircraft believes...
  • learn5v. To acquire, or attempt to acquire knowledge or an ability to do...
  • lease5n. An interest in land granting exclusive use or occupation of real estate...
  • leash8n. A strap, cord or rope with which to restrain an animal, often a dog.
  • least5adj. Chiefly used with abstract nouns: less than all others in extent or...
  • leave8v. To cause or allow (something) to remain as available; to refrain from...

LEB

  • leban7n. Coagulated sour milk diluted with water.

LEC

LED

  • ledge7n. A narrow surface projecting horizontally from a wall, cliff, or other...
  • ledum8n. Any plant of the genus Ledum.

LEE

  • leech10n. A typically aquatic blood-sucking annelid of the subclass Hirudinea...
  • leery8adj. Cautious, suspicious, wary, hesitant, or nervous about something...
  • leese5v. To lose.

LEF

  • lefse8n. A traditional soft Norwegian flatbread made from potato, flour, and...
  • lefty11n. One who is left-handed.

LEG

  • legal6adj. Relating to the law or to lawyers.
  • legat6n. A legal attaché.
  • leger6adj. Lying or remaining in a place; hence, resident.
  • leggo7n. A form of calypso music; lavway.
  • leggy10adj. Having long, attractive legs; long-legged.
  • legit6n. A legitimate; a legitimate actor.

LEH

  • lehua8n. The flower or wood of a Polynesian tree (Metrosideros collina); the...

LEI

LEK

LEM

  • leman7n. One beloved; a lover, a sweetheart of either sex (especially a secret...
  • lemel7n. Metal filings.
  • lemma9n. A proposition proved or accepted for immediate use in the proof of some...
  • lemon7n. A yellowish citrus fruit.
  • lemur7n. Any strepsirrhine primate of the superfamily Lemuroidea, native only to...

LEN

  • lenga6n. A deciduous tree native to the southern Andes, taxonomic name...
  • lenis5adj. Relatively weakly articulated, hence unaspirated and possibly voiced...
  • lente5n. An intermediate-acting form of insulin, between isophane and ultralente.
  • lento5adj. Slow (45–60 bpm).

LEO

  • leone5n. A unit of currency of Sierra Leone, divided into 100 cents.

LEP

  • lepak11v. To loiter about casually or idly, to hang around unproductively, to...
  • lepas7n. Any of the genus Lepas of pedunculated barnacles found attached to...
  • leper7n. A person who has leprosy, a person suffering from Hansen's disease.
  • lepra7n. Synonym of leprosy.

LES

LET

  • letch10n. A lecher.
  • lethe8n. Forgetfulness of the past; oblivion.
  • letty8n. Only used in scarper the letty.
  • letup7n. A pause or period of slackening.

LEU

  • leuco7adj. Of or relating to leuco dyes and their related compounds.

LEV

  • levan8n. A homopolysaccharide composed of D-fructofuranosyl.
  • levee8n. An elevated ridge of deposited sediment on the banks of a river, formed...
  • level8adj. The same height at all places; parallel to a flat ground.
  • lever8n. A rigid piece which is capable of turning about one point, or axis...
  • levet8n. A trumpet call for rousing soldiers; a reveille.
  • levin8n. Lightning; a bolt of lightning; also, a bright flame or light.

LEW

  • lewis8n. A cramp iron inserted into a cavity in order to lift heavy stones; used...

LEX

  • lexer12n. A computer program that performs lexical analysis.
  • lexie12n. A minimal unit of reading, such as a sentence or sentence fragment.
  • lexis12n. The set of all words and phrases in a language; any unified subset of...
36 rare five-letter words that start with LE

Questions about these words

How many five-letter words that start with LE are there?
Word.ws lists 58 five-letter words that start with LE, plus 36 rare ones.
What are common five-letter words that start with LE?
least, level, leave, learn, legal, lewis, lease and lemon.
Which of the five-letter words that start with LE has the highest letter score?
lecky scores 14 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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