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5-Letter Words Starting with PET

There are 10 five-letter words that start with PET on Word.ws, from petai to petty. The most common are peter, petty, petit, petra and petal.

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All 10 five-letter words that start with 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.
3 rare five-letter words that start with PET

Questions about these words

How many five-letter words that start with PET are there?
Word.ws lists 10 five-letter words that start with PET, plus 3 rare ones.
What are common five-letter words that start with PET?
peter, petty, petit, petra, petal, petro, petre and petti.
Which of the five-letter words that start with PET has the highest letter score?
petty scores 10 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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