5-Letter Words Starting with NI
There are 38 five-letter words that start with NI on Word.ws, from nibba to nizam. The most common are night, ninth, ninja, niche and niece.
Meanings from Wiktionary. Not an official Scrabble, Words With Friends or Wordle word list.
All 38 five-letter words that start with NI
- nibba9n. Nigger or nigga.
- nicad8n. Rechargeable nickel-cadmium battery.
- niche10n. A cavity, hollow, or recess, generally within the thickness of a wall...
- nicor7n. A sea monster.
- nidal6adj. Of or pertaining to a nidus.
- nidus6n. An aggregate of neurons.
- niece7n. A daughter of one’s sibling, brother-in-law, or sister-in-law; either...
- nifty11adj. Good, smart; useful or beneficial, often in an impressively clever way.
- niger6n. An Ethiopian herb (Guizotia abyssinica), grown for its seed and edible...
- night9n. The time when the Sun is below the horizon when the sky is dark.
- nihil8n. A nihil dicit.
- nikah12n. A Muslim wedding.
- nikka13n. A bowdlerization of nigga used as a reclaimed sense of nigger.
- nimbo9n. The neem tree.
- nimby12adj. Not wanting to have to deal with unpleasant or distasteful things near...
- niner5n. Something nine inches long, or holding nine gallons, etc.
- nines5n. A pair of nines.
- ninja12n. One trained in ninjutsu, especially one used for espionage...
- ninny8n. A silly or foolish person.
- ninon5n. A sheer fabric of silk, rayon, or nylon made in a variety of tight...
- ninth8adj. The ordinal form of the number nine.
- nippy12adj. Fast; speedy.
- niqab16n. A veil which covers the face (except for the eyes), worn by some Muslim...
- nisei5n. One whose parents were Japanese immigrants, especially to North or...
- nishi8n. The left-hand (less prestigious) side of the banzuke (番付, “ranking...
- nisin5n. A polycyclic peptide produced by fermentation with the bacterium...
- nisus5n. A mental or physical effort to attain a specific goal; a striving.
- nitch10n. A notch or small incision.
- niter5n. A mineral form of potassium nitrate (saltpetre) used in making...
- niton5n. Former name of radon.
- nitre5n. UK standard spelling of niter.
- nitro5n. The univalent NO₂ functional group.
- nitta5n. A tropical tree of the genus Parkia, having edible pods and seeds...
- nitty8adj. Foolish, inane.
- nival8adj. Abounding with snow; snowy; snow-covered (now especially in reference...
- nixes12n. Nothing.
- nixie12n. A female nix, a water-spirit.
- nizam16n. The hereditary sovereign of Hyderabad, a former state of India.
27 rare five-letter words that start with NI
Questions about these words
- How many five-letter words that start with NI are there?
- Word.ws lists 38 five-letter words that start with NI, plus 27 rare ones.
- What are common five-letter words that start with NI?
- night, ninth, ninja, niche, niece, niger, nitro and nifty.
- Which of the five-letter words that start with NI has the highest letter score?
- nizam 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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