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5-Letter Words Starting with MUS

There are 10 five-letter words that start with MUS on Word.ws, from musar to musty. The most common are music, mushy, musty, musky and musha.

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

All 10 five-letter words that start with MUS

  • musar7n. An itinerant musette player.
  • muser7n. One who muses.
  • musha10interj. An expression of sympathy.
  • mushy13adj. Resembling or having the consistency of mush; semiliquid, pasty, or...
  • music9n. A series of sounds organized in time, usually employing some...
  • musky14adj. Resembling or characteristic of musk, especially in scent.
  • musou7n. A subgenre of hack-and-slash usually involving fighting hundreds of...
  • mussy10adj. Having been mussed: messy, rumpled.
  • musth10n. Chiefly preceded by in or on: the state each year during which a male...
  • musty10adj. Affected by dampness or mould; damp, mildewed, mouldy.
2 rare five-letter words that start with MUS

Questions about these words

How many five-letter words that start with MUS are there?
Word.ws lists 10 five-letter words that start with MUS, plus 2 rare ones.
What are common five-letter words that start with MUS?
music, mushy, musty, musky, musha, musou, mussy and musth.
Which of the five-letter words that start with MUS has the highest letter score?
musky 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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