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5-Letter Words Starting with MI

There are 67 five-letter words that start with MI on Word.ws, from miang to mizzy. The most common are might, miles, mixed, minor and micro.

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All 67 five-letter words that start with MI

MIA

  • miang8n. Fermented tea leaves, often chewed after meals in Thailand.
  • miaow10n. UK spelling of meow.

MIC

  • micro9adj. Very small in scale or scope.

MID

  • middy12n. A midshipman.
  • midge9n. Any of various small two-winged flies, for example, from the family...
  • midst8n. A place in the middle of something; may be used of a literal or...

MIF

  • miffy16adj. Easily irritated or offended.

MIG

  • migas8n. Any of various traditional Spanish or Portuguese dishes made with...
  • might11n. Power, strength, force, or influence held by a person or group.

MIK

  • mikan11n. An orange seedless citrus fruit Citrus unshiu, originating from Japan...

MIL

  • milah10n. The first step in the bris, where the akroposthion is excised (later...
  • milam9n. Synonym of dream yoga.
  • milch12adj. Used to produce milk; dairy.
  • miler7n. An athlete or a horse who specializes in running races of one mile, or...
  • miles7n. A great distance in space or time.
  • milko11n. A milkman or milkwoman.
  • milky14adj. Resembling milk in color, consistency, smell, etc.; consisting of milk.
  • milla7n. Spanish mile, a traditional Spanish unit of distance equivalent to...
  • milpa9n. A cyclical crop-growing system used throughout Mesoamerica.
  • milty10adj. Resembling or characteristic of milt.

MIM

  • mimeo9n. An unpublished academic paper.
  • mimer9n. Someone who mimes during a performance of a song.
  • mimic11v. To imitate, especially in order to ridicule.
  • mimsy12adj. A nonce word in Lewis Carroll's Jabberwocky.

MIN

  • minar7n. A minaret.
  • mince9n. Finely chopped meat; minced meat.
  • minch12n. A nun.
  • mincy12adj. Mincing; affectedly dainty.
  • mindy11n. Knife.
  • mined8adj. That has been mined (in various senses).
  • miner7n. A person who works in a mine.
  • minge8n. The pubic hair and vulva.
  • mingi8adj. Among certain Ethiopian peoples: ritually impure.
  • mingy11adj. Mean, miserly, stingy.
  • minie7n. A Minié ball.
  • minim9n. A half note, drawn as a semibreve with a stem.
  • minky14adj. Of or pertaining to minks.
  • minny10n. A minnow.
  • minor7adj. Lesser, smaller in importance, size, degree, seriousness, or...
  • minty10adj. Having a flavor or essence of mint.
  • minum9n. A minim.
  • minus7prep. Made less or reduced by (followed by an expression of number or...

MIR

  • mired8adj. Stuck in mud; plunged or fixed in mud.
  • mirek11n. A unit of measurement for color temperature.
  • mirex14n. The pesticide and fire retardant perchloropentacyclodecane, which is a...
  • mirin7n. A form of Japanese rice wine, less alcoholic than saké and used in...
  • mirna7n. MicroRNA.
  • mirth10n. The emotion usually following humor and accompanied by laughter.
  • mirza16n. An educated man in India or Iran (Persia); an official, a clerk.

MIS

  • misal7n. An Indian dish of vegetables in a spicy gravy.
  • miser7n. A kind of earth auger, typically large-bored and often hand-operated.
  • misri7n. Rock sugar.
  • missa7n. A mass, in the sense of a composition setting several sung parts of the...
  • misso7n. Missus (“wife or girlfriend”).
  • missy10n. A young female, or miss; as a term of mild disparagement, typically...
  • misty10adj. Covered in mist; foggy.

MIT

  • mitch12v. To pilfer; filch; steal.
  • mitis7n. A process for producing malleable iron castings by melting wrought...
  • mitra7n. A person who is interested in becoming a Buddhist and elects to join a...
  • mitre7n. A covering for the head, worn on solemn occasions by church...
  • mitta7n. An old English measure of volume, perhaps equal to two bushels.
  • mitty10n. The storm petrel.

MIX

  • mixed15adj. Having two or more separate aspects.
  • mixer14n. One who, or a device that, mixes or merges things together.
  • mixin14n. An uninstantiable class that provides functionality to be inherited by...
  • mixte14n. A kind of bicycle frame where the top tube of the traditional diamond...

MIZ

  • mizzy28n. A bog or quagmire.
31 rare five-letter words that start with MI

Questions about these words

How many five-letter words that start with MI are there?
Word.ws lists 67 five-letter words that start with MI, plus 31 rare ones.
What are common five-letter words that start with MI?
might, miles, mixed, minor, micro, minus, mitch and midst.
Which of the five-letter words that start with MI has the highest letter score?
mizzy scores 28 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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