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5-Letter Words Starting with MER

There are 14 five-letter words that start with MER on Word.ws, from meral to merus. The most common are mercy, merit, merry, merge and merch.

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

All 14 five-letter words that start with MER

  • meral7adj. Pertaining to the merus or meropodite.
  • merce9v. To subject to fine or amercement; to mulct; to amerce.
  • merch12n. Goods which are or were offered or intended for sale.
  • merci9interj. Thank you.
  • mercy12n. Relenting; forbearance to cause or allow harm to another.
  • merge8v. To combine into a whole.
  • merit7n. A claim to commendation or a reward.
  • merle7n. A Eurasian blackbird, Turdus merula.
  • meron7n. Either of the pair of entities that together make up an instanton.
  • meros7n. The proximal segment of the hind limb; the thigh.
  • merry10adj. Jolly and full of high spirits; happy.
  • merse7n. Alluvial, often marshy land by the side of a river, estuary or sea.
  • mersh10n. Low-grade or commercial-grade marijuana.
  • merus7n. The meropodite; the first segment of the raptorial appendage of a...
2 rare five-letter words that start with MER

Questions about these words

How many five-letter words that start with MER are there?
Word.ws lists 14 five-letter words that start with MER, plus 2 rare ones.
What are common five-letter words that start with MER?
mercy, merit, merry, merge, merch, merle, merci and meron.
Which of the five-letter words that start with MER has the highest letter score?
mercy scores 12 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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