5-Letter Words Starting with PL
There are 43 five-letter words that start with PL on Word.ws, from place to pluto. The most common are place, plant, plane, plate and plain.
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All 43 five-letter words that start with PL
PLA
- place9n. An open space, particularly a city square, market square, or courtyard.
- plack13n. A coin issued by James III of Scotland; also a 15th-16th century...
- plage8n. A bright region in the chromosphere of the Sun.
- plaid8n. A type of twilled woollen cloth, often with a tartan or chequered...
- plain7adj. Ordinary; lacking adornment or ornamentation; unembellished.
- plait7n. A flat fold; a doubling, as of cloth; a pleat.
- plane7adj. Of a surface: flat or level.
- plank11n. A flat piece of wood on which to cook fish, so that the wood provides...
- plano7adj. Of lenses: flat; having no curvature; not serving to correct the vision.
- plant7n. An organism that is not an animal, especially an organism capable of...
- plash10n. A small pool of standing water; a marshy pond; also, a puddle...
- plasm9n. A mold or matrix in which anything is cast or formed to a particular...
- plate7n. A slightly curved but almost flat dish from which food is served or...
- platt7n. A marketplace.
- platy10adj. Resembling plates.
- platz16v. To become aggravated.
- playa10n. A level area which habitually fills with water that evaporates entirely.
- plaza16n. A town's public square.
PLE
- plead8v. To present (an argument or a plea), especially in a legal case.
- pleat7n. A fold in the fabric of a garment, usually a skirt, as a part of the...
- plebe9n. A plebeian, a member of the lower class of Roman citizens.
- plebs9n. The plebeian class of Ancient Rome or its equivalent in other ancient...
- pleck13n. A plot of ground.
- pleco9n. Any of several tropical American fish, of the family Loricariidae...
- plena7n. A style of Puerto Rican music having a highly syncopated rhythm and...
- plene7adv. With matres lectionis (letters indicating vowels) written out.
- plexi14n. A Plexiglas guitar.
PLI
- plica9n. A fold or crease, especially of skin or other tissue.
- plier7n. One who plies.
- pling8n. The symbol ! (an exclamation mark).
- plink11n. A short, high-pitched metallic or percussive sound.
- plitt7n. An instrument of punishment resembling the knout, formerly used in...
PLO
PLU
- pluck13v. To pull something sharply; to pull something out.
- plugg9n. A laid-back subgenre of trap music.
- pluma9n. A feather.
- plumb11n. A little mass of lead, or the like, attached to a line, and used by...
- plume9n. A token of honour or prowess; that on which one prides oneself; a prize...
- plump11adj. Having a full and rounded shape; chubby, somewhat overweight.
- plunk11n. A brief, dull sound, such as the sound of a string of a stringed...
- plush10adj. Very extravagant.
- pluto7v. To demote or devalue something.
19 rare five-letter words that start with PL
Questions about these words
- How many five-letter words that start with PL are there?
- Word.ws lists 43 five-letter words that start with PL, plus 19 rare ones.
- What are common five-letter words that start with PL?
- place, plant, plane, plate, plain, plaza, plead and plank.
- Which of the five-letter words that start with PL has the highest letter score?
- plotz scores 16 points with the standard letter tile values.
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Source and license
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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