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5-Letter Words Starting with PE

There are 60 five-letter words that start with PE on Word.ws, from peace to pewee. The most common are peace, peter, perry, pearl and penny.

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All 60 five-letter words that start with PE

PEA

  • peace9n. A state of tranquility, quiet, and harmony. For instance, a state free...
  • peach12n. Any tree of species Prunus persica, native to China and now widely...
  • peaky14adj. Sickly; peaked.
  • pearl7n. Nacre; mother-of-pearl.
  • peart7adj. Lively; active.
  • peary10adj. Resembling pears, pear-like.
  • pease7v. To make peace between (conflicting people, states etc.); to reconcile.
  • peasy10adj. Resembling or characteristic of peas.
  • peaty10adj. Of or resembling peat; peatlike.
  • peavy13n. A tool used to manipulate logs, having a thick wooden handle, a steel...

PEC

  • pecan9n. A deciduous tree, Carya illinoinensis, of the central and southern...
  • pecky16adj. Discoloured by fungus growth or insects.

PED

  • pedal8n. A lever operated by one's foot that is used to control or power a...
  • pedes8n. Pediatrics.

PEE

  • peele7n. A kind of antelope, the rhebok, Pelea capreolus.
  • peely10adj. Tending to peel.
  • peepo9interj. Synonym of peekaboo.
  • peery10n. Spinning top.
  • peeth10n. A well (for drawing water).
  • peeve10n. An annoyance or grievance.

PEG

  • pegan8n. A person who practices peganism, a variant of the vegan diet and paleo...
  • peggy12n. Any of several small warblers, the whitethroat, etc.

PEI

  • peine7n. Pain or punishment.

PEK

  • pekan11n. A fisher cat or fisher (Pekania pennanti, syn. Martes pennanti).
  • pekoe11n. A high-quality black tea made using young leaves, grown in Sri Lanka...

PEL

  • peled8n. The Coregonus peled, a whitefish of the Salmonidae family, endemic to...

PEN

  • penal7adj. Of or relating to punishment.
  • penge8n. (typically penge flaw or penge error) a printing flaw on early...
  • penna7n. A contour feather.
  • penne7n. A type of short, diagonally cut pasta.
  • penni7n. A former Finnish currency unit, worth ¹⁄₁₀₀ of the markka.
  • penny10n. In the United Kingdom and Ireland and many other countries, a unit of...

PEO

  • peony10n. A flowering plant of the genus Paeonia with large fragrant flowers.

PEP

  • pepin9n. A specialized compartment found in the bacterium Thiomargarita...
  • peppy14adj. Full of pep; energetic, cheerful, and vigorous; bouncy.

PER

  • perch12n. Any of the three species of spiny-finned freshwater fish in the genus...
  • percy12n. A unit of Percocet.
  • perdu8n. One placed on watch, or in ambush.
  • perek11n. A chapter of a religious text.
  • peril7n. A situation of serious and immediate danger.
  • perky14adj. Lively and often cheerful and enthusiastic.
  • perlo7n. A rustic, one-pot Southern dish featuring chicken, smoked sausage, and...
  • perma9v. To permakill.
  • perne7v. To spin or gyrate (as the pern of a spinning-wheel).
  • perry10n. A fermented alcoholic beverage made from pears, similar to hard apple...
  • perse7n. A very dark (almost black) purple or blue-gray colour.

PES

  • pesky14adj. Annoying, troublesome, irritating (usually of an animal or child).
  • pesto7n. A sauce, especially for pasta, originating from the Genoa region in...
  • pesty10adj. Annoying or troublesome; pesky.

PET

  • petai7n. Stink bean, bitter bean (Parkia speciosa).
  • petal7n. One of the component parts of the corolla of a flower. It applies...
  • peter7n. The penis.
  • petit7adj. Petite: small, little.
  • petra7n. Stone, a weight equal to 14 pounds.
  • petre7n. Saltpetre.
  • petro7n. A Venezuelan cryptocurrency launched in 2018, supposed to be backed by...
  • petti7n. A petticoat.
  • petto7n. Only used in in petto.
  • petty10adj. Of or relating to the lowest grade or level of school; junior, primary.

PEW

  • pewee10n. Any of various tyrant flycatchers of the genus Contopus.
30 rare five-letter words that start with PE

Questions about these words

How many five-letter words that start with PE are there?
Word.ws lists 60 five-letter words that start with PE, plus 30 rare ones.
What are common five-letter words that start with PE?
peace, peter, perry, pearl, penny, petty, peach and percy.
Which of the five-letter words that start with PE has the highest letter score?
pecky 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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