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5-Letter Words Starting with MAN

There are 36 five-letter words that start with MAN on Word.ws, from manal to manus. The most common are manga, manor, manly, mango and manny.

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All 36 five-letter words that start with MAN

  • manal7adj. Of, like or pertaining to the hand.
  • manas7n. The mind; that which distinguishes man from the animals.
  • manat7n. The basic unit of currency for Azerbaijan; symbol ₼; subdivided into...
  • manca9n. A mancus (old coin).
  • mandi8n. A traditional style of washing oneself in Indonesia and Malaysia, using...
  • mando8n. A mandatory, a sign or line that requires the path of the disc to be...
  • mandu8n. A dumpling in Korean cuisine.
  • mandy11n. The drug MDMA.
  • maneb9n. A foliate fungicide consisting of a polymeric complex of manganese with...
  • maned8adj. Having a (specified form of) mane.
  • maneh10n. An obsolete unit of Hebrew currency, larger than a shekel.
  • manes7n. The souls or spirits of dead ancestors, conceived as deities or the...
  • manet7v. Used in stage directions; literally, he, she or it remains. Compare...
  • manga8n. A comic originating in Japan.
  • mange8n. A skin disease of nonhuman mammals caused by parasitic mites (Sarcoptes...
  • mango8n. Any of species Mangifera indica of tropical Asian fruit trees.
  • mangu8n. Mashed plantain.
  • mangy11adj. Afflicted, or looking as if afflicted, with mange.
  • mania7n. Violent derangement of mind; madness; insanity.
  • manic9adj. Characterized by mania or craziness; wicked.
  • manip9n. Manipulation.
  • manis7n. The pangolin.
  • manja14n. String coated with crushed glass and attached to a kite, used to cut...
  • manji14n. A captain or skipper of a boat.
  • manju14n. A traditional Japanese confection; most have an outside made from...
  • manky14adj. Unpleasantly dirty and disgusting.
  • manly10adj. Having the characteristics of a man.
  • manna7n. Food miraculously produced for the Israelites in the desert in the book...
  • manny10n. A male nanny (for children).
  • manor7n. A landed estate.
  • mansa7n. A king of ancient Mali.
  • manse7v. To excommunicate; curse.
  • manta7n. A kind of fabric or blanket used in Latin America and southwestern...
  • manti7n. A type of dumpling served in Turkish, Armenian and Central Asian...
  • manty10n. Synonym of mantou (Chinese dumpling bun).
  • manus7n. A hand, as the part of the fore limb below the forearm in a human, or...
3 rare five-letter words that start with MAN

Questions about these words

How many five-letter words that start with MAN are there?
Word.ws lists 36 five-letter words that start with MAN, plus 3 rare ones.
What are common five-letter words that start with MAN?
manga, manor, manly, mango, manny, mania, mandy and manic.
Which of the five-letter words that start with MAN has the highest letter score?
manky 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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