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5-Letter Words Starting with MAL

There are 13 five-letter words that start with MAL on Word.ws, from malai to malwa. The most common are malik, malta, malia, malus and malic.

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

All 13 five-letter words that start with MAL

  • malai7n. An Indian cream made by heating and then cooling non-homogenized whole...
  • malar7adj. Pertaining to the cheek.
  • malia7n. A passerine bird endemic to Sulawesi, of species Malia grata.
  • malic9adj. Pertaining to apples.
  • malik11n. A tribal chieftain in certain areas of Afghanistan and Pakistan...
  • malky14v. To slash with an open razor.
  • malle7n. A heavy hammer or beetle, often made of wood or lead.
  • malta7n. A non-alcoholic carbonated malt beverage, popular in Latin America.
  • malty10adj. Of, pertaining to, containing, or characteristic of malt.
  • malum9n. An evil or wrongdoing.
  • malus7n. The loss or return of performance-related compensation originally paid...
  • malva10n. Any plant of the genus Malva, a mallow.
  • malwa10n. Beer made with millet, common in Africa.
3 rare five-letter words that start with MAL

Questions about these words

How many five-letter words that start with MAL are there?
Word.ws lists 13 five-letter words that start with MAL, plus 3 rare ones.
What are common five-letter words that start with MAL?
malik, malta, malia, malus, malic, malty, malar and malum.
Which of the five-letter words that start with MAL has the highest letter score?
malky 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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