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5-Letter Words Starting with MAT

There are 17 five-letter words that start with MAT on Word.ws, from matai to matzo. The most common are match, mates, matte, mater and matty.

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

All 17 five-letter words that start with MAT

  • matai7n. A Samoan chief.
  • match12n. Any contest or trial of strength or skill, or to determine superiority.
  • mated8adj. Fitted together or interlocked.
  • mater7n. Mother.
  • mates7adj. Friendly; having a friendship (with).
  • matey10adj. Sociable or friendly.
  • matha10n. A monastic or similar religious establishment in Hinduism and Jainism...
  • mathy13adj. Synonym of mathsy (“of or relating to mathematics”).
  • matie7n. A fat herring with undeveloped roe.
  • matin7adj. Of or relating to matins.
  • matka11n. An earthenware pot.
  • matra7n. In Indian music, the smallest rhythmic unit of a tala.
  • matsu7n. Pinus thunbergii, the Japanese pine.
  • matta7n. The false start of a bout due to mutual misunderstanding.
  • matte7n. A decorative border around a picture used to inset and center the...
  • matty10adj. Matted.
  • matzo16n. Thin, unleavened bread in Jewish cuisine.
1 rare five-letter words that start with MAT

Questions about these words

How many five-letter words that start with MAT are there?
Word.ws lists 17 five-letter words that start with MAT, plus 1 rare ones.
What are common five-letter words that start with MAT?
match, mates, matte, mater, matty, mated, matey and matin.
Which of the five-letter words that start with MAT has the highest letter score?
matzo scores 16 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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