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5-Letter Words Starting with LIM

There are 10 five-letter words that start with LIM on Word.ws, from liman to limpy. The most common are limit, limbo, limes, liman and limey.

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

All 10 five-letter words that start with LIM

  • liman7n. A wide estuary formed as a lagoon at the mouth of one or more rivers...
  • limax14n. A slug or slug-like creature.
  • limba9n. A large African tree, Terminalia superba, whose hard wood is used for...
  • limbo9n. A speculative place or state, thought possibly to be on the edge of the...
  • limen7n. A liminal point; the threshold of a physiological or psychological...
  • limes7n. A boundary or border, especially of the Roman Empire.
  • limey10adj. Resembling limes (the fruit); lime-like.
  • limit7n. A restriction; a bound beyond which one may not go or proceed.
  • limpa9n. Swedish-style rye bread made with molasses.
  • limpy12adj. Having or resembling a limp.
5 rare five-letter words that start with LIM

Questions about these words

How many five-letter words that start with LIM are there?
Word.ws lists 10 five-letter words that start with LIM, plus 5 rare ones.
What are common five-letter words that start with LIM?
limit, limbo, limes, liman, limey, limba, limpy and limen.
Which of the five-letter words that start with LIM has the highest letter score?
limax 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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