5-Letter Words Starting with PER
There are 11 five-letter words that start with PER on Word.ws, from perch to perse. The most common are perry, percy, peril, perch and perky.
Meanings from Wiktionary. Not an official Scrabble, Words With Friends or Wordle word list.
All 11 five-letter words that start with 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.
Questions about these words
- How many five-letter words that start with PER are there?
- Word.ws lists 11 five-letter words that start with PER, plus 2 rare ones.
- What are common five-letter words that start with PER?
- perry, percy, peril, perch, perky, perma, perse and perdu.
- Which of the five-letter words that start with PER has the highest letter score?
- perky 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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