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5-Letter Words Starting with PAN

There are 18 five-letter words that start with PAN on Word.ws, from panax to panya. The most common are panel, pants, panic, panda and panty.

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All 18 five-letter words that start with PAN

  • panax14n. Any plant of the genus Panax.
  • pance9n. Pansy (flower).
  • panda8n. A brahmin who acts as the hereditary superintendent of a particular...
  • pando8n. A pandemic (chiefly in reference to the COVID-19 pandemic).
  • pandy11n. A fulling mill.
  • paned8adj. Having panes.
  • panel7n. A (usually) rectangular section of a surface, or of a covering or of a...
  • panga8n. A large broad-bladed knife.
  • panic9adj. Of fear, fright, etc: overwhelming or sudden.
  • panin7n. A hominid of the genus Pan.
  • panko11n. Coarse, dry breadcrumbs used in Japanese cuisine.
  • panne7n. A lustrous finish applied to velvet and satin.
  • panny10n. A house.
  • pansy10n. A cultivated flowering plant, derived by hybridization within species...
  • panth10n. An Indian religious tradition established by a guru.
  • pants7n. An outer garment that covers the body from the waist downwards...
  • panty10n. An article of clothing worn as underpants by women.
  • panya10n. A large earthenware jar.
2 rare five-letter words that start with PAN

Questions about these words

How many five-letter words that start with PAN are there?
Word.ws lists 18 five-letter words that start with PAN, plus 2 rare ones.
What are common five-letter words that start with PAN?
panel, pants, panic, panda, panty, pansy, panko and paned.
Which of the five-letter words that start with PAN has the highest letter score?
panax 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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