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5-Letter Words Starting with MIN

There are 18 five-letter words that start with MIN on Word.ws, from minar to minus. The most common are minor, minus, miner, mined and mindy.

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

All 18 five-letter words that start with 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...
4 rare five-letter words that start with MIN

Questions about these words

How many five-letter words that start with MIN are there?
Word.ws lists 18 five-letter words that start with MIN, plus 4 rare ones.
What are common five-letter words that start with MIN?
minor, minus, miner, mined, mindy, mince, minty and minny.
Which of the five-letter words that start with MIN has the highest letter score?
minky 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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