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5-Letter Words Starting with RO

There are 61 five-letter words that start with RO on Word.ws, from roach to royal. The most common are round, royal, route, roads and roman.

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All 61 five-letter words that start with RO

ROA

  • roach10n. Any fish of species in the genus Rutilus, especially.
  • roads6n. A roadstead.
  • roary8adj. Resembling or characteristic of a roaring sound.
  • roast5v. To cook food by heating in an oven or over a fire without covering...

ROB

  • robed8adj. Wearing a robe.
  • rober7n. One who robes.
  • robin7n. A European robin, Erithacus rubecula.
  • roble7n. California white oak (Quercus lobata).
  • robot7n. A system of serfdom used in Central Europe, under which a tenant's rent...

ROC

  • roche10n. One of various types of rock or geological strata.
  • rocks11n. Money.
  • rocky14adj. Abounding in, or full of, rocks; consisting of rocks.

ROD

  • roddy10adj. Full of rods or twigs.
  • rodeo6n. A gathering of cattle to be branded.
  • rodge7n. The grey duck.

ROG

  • roger6interj. Received (used in radio communications to acknowledge that a message...
  • rogue6n. A scoundrel, rascal or unprincipled, deceitful, and unreliable person.

ROH

  • rohan8n. An East Indian timber tree.

ROJ

  • rojak16n. A traditional Malaysian and Indonesian salad of mixed raw fruits and...

ROK

  • roker9n. The thornback ray.

ROL

  • roled6adj. Having a role.
  • rolex12n. An omelette served inside a chapati.
  • rolly8adj. Rolling; having the ability to roll, usually due to wheels attached on...

ROM

  • roman7adj. Upright, as opposed to italic.

RON

  • ronde6n. A kind of script in which the tails of the letters are curly, giving...
  • rondo6n. A musical composition, commonly of a lively, cheerful character, in...
  • ronin5n. A masterless samurai (who often becomes a mercenary to make ends meet).

ROO

  • rooky12adj. Full of rooks.
  • roomy10adj. Spacious, expansive, comfortable.
  • roose5v. To flatter or praise.
  • roost5n. The place where a bird sleeps (usually its nest or a branch).
  • roots5n. Ancestry.
  • rooty8adj. Full of roots.

ROP

  • roper7n. A ropemaker (a maker of ropes).
  • ropes7n. Basic skills of a job.

ROQ

  • roque14n. A form of croquet using short-handled mallets, and played on a hard...

ROR

  • rorty8adj. Boisterous, rowdy, saucy, dissipated, or risqué.

ROS

  • rosen5adj. Made of or consisting of roses.
  • roset5n. A red colour or pigment used by painters.
  • roshi8n. An elderly and revered Buddhist monk.
  • rosin5n. A solid form of resin, obtained from liquid resin by vaporizing its...

ROT

  • rotan5n. A long rattan cane used for corporal punishment.
  • rothe8n. A kind of fictional cattle in various role-playing games and roguelike...
  • roton5n. The quantum of rotation in a superfluid.
  • rotor5n. A rotating part of a mechanical device; for example, in an electric...

ROU

  • rouge6adj. Of a reddish pink colour.
  • rough9adj. Not smooth; uneven.
  • round6adj. Circular or cylindrical; having a circular cross-section in one...
  • rouse5v. To cause (something) to be (more) active or to move; to agitate, to...
  • roust5v. To rout out of bed; to rouse.
  • route5n. A course or way which is traveled or passed.
  • routh8n. Plenty, abundance.

ROV

  • roval8n. A motor racecourse composed of a road course section and a portion of a...
  • rover8n. One who roves: a person or animal that travels around, especially over...

ROW

  • rowan8n. Sorbus aucuparia, the European rowan.
  • rowdy12adj. Loud and disorderly; riotous; boisterous.
  • rowed9adj. Formed into a row, or rows; having a specified number of rows.
  • rowel8n. A small spiked wheel on the end of a spur of certain types.
  • rowen8n. A stubble field left unploughed until late in the autumn, so that it...
  • rower8n. One who rows.

ROY

  • royal8adj. Of or relating to a monarch or his (or her) family.
24 rare five-letter words that start with RO

Questions about these words

How many five-letter words that start with RO are there?
Word.ws lists 61 five-letter words that start with RO, plus 24 rare ones.
What are common five-letter words that start with RO?
round, royal, route, roads, roman, rough, roger and rocks.
Which of the five-letter words that start with RO has the highest letter score?
rojak 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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