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5-Letter Words Starting with LU

There are 31 five-letter words that start with LU on Word.ws, from luchi to luxon. The most common are lucky, lunch, lunar, lucid and lupus.

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All 31 five-letter words that start with LU

  • luchi10n. A kind of Indian deep-fried flatbread made from maida flour.
  • lucid8adj. Clear; easily understood.
  • lucky14adj. Favoured by luck; fortunate; having good success or good fortune.
  • lucre7n. Money, riches, or wealth, especially when seen as having a corrupting...
  • ludic8adj. Playful.
  • ludus6n. A gladiatorial training school.
  • lugal6n. A ruler of a city state in ancient Sumer.
  • luger6n. Someone who competes in the luge.
  • lulav8n. A festive bouquet of willow, myrtle and a closed date palm frond, used...
  • lully8n. Wet or drying linen.
  • lumen7n. In the International System of Units, the derived unit of luminous...
  • lumia7n. A certain pear-shaped citrus fruit.
  • lumme9interj. Expressing surprise.
  • lumps9n. A beating or verbal abuse.
  • lumpy12adj. Full of lumps, not smooth, uneven.
  • lunar5adj. Of, pertaining to, or resembling the Moon (that is, Luna, the Earth's...
  • lunch10n. A light meal usually eaten around midday, notably when not as main meal...
  • lunel5n. A type of sweet muscat wine.
  • lunge6n. A sudden forward movement, especially with a sword.
  • lungi6n. A garment worn around the waist, especially by men, in Southern India...
  • lungo6n. An espresso drink with more hot water passed through the grounds than...
  • lupin7n. Any member of the genus Lupinus in the family Fabaceae.
  • lupus7n. Any of a number of autoimmune diseases, the most common of which is...
  • lurch10n. A sudden or unsteady movement.
  • lurgy9n. A non-specific (often infectious) disease, especially one with symptoms...
  • lurid6adj. Pruriently detailed and sensationalistic about something shocking or...
  • lurky12adj. Tending to lurk; given to or indicative of lurking.
  • lurve8n. Love, fondness.
  • lusty8adj. Exhibiting lust (in the obsolete sense meaning "vigor"); strong...
  • luter5n. One who uses lute (the material).
  • luxon12n. Any particle that travels at exactly the speed of light and has zero...
22 rare five-letter words that start with LU

Questions about these words

How many five-letter words that start with LU are there?
Word.ws lists 31 five-letter words that start with LU, plus 22 rare ones.
What are common five-letter words that start with LU?
lucky, lunch, lunar, lucid, lupus, lumps, lumen and lumia.
Which of the five-letter words that start with LU has the highest letter score?
lucky 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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