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5-Letter Words Starting with OL

There are 11 five-letter words that start with OL on Word.ws, from olden to ology. The most common are older, olive, ollie, olden and oldie.

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

All 11 five-letter words that start with OL

  • olden6adj. From or relating to a previous era.
  • older6adj. Elderly.
  • oldie6n. Something or someone old.
  • oleic7adj. Of or pertaining to oil, especially to vegetable oil.
  • olein5n. Any naturally-occurring greasy or oily substance related to fat.
  • oleum7n. A solution of sulfur trioxide in sulfuric acid.
  • oligo6n. An oligonucleotide.
  • oliva8n. Olivary body.
  • olive8n. A tree of species Olea europaea cultivated since ancient times in the...
  • ollie5n. An aerial maneuver in which one catches air by leaping off the ground...
  • ology9n. Any branch of learning, especially one ending in “-logy”.
7 rare five-letter words that start with OL

Questions about these words

How many five-letter words that start with OL are there?
Word.ws lists 11 five-letter words that start with OL, plus 7 rare ones.
What are common five-letter words that start with OL?
older, olive, ollie, olden, oldie, oliva, oleic and ology.
Which of the five-letter words that start with OL has the highest letter score?
ology scores 9 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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