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5-Letter Words Starting with SHA

There are 34 five-letter words that start with SHA on Word.ws, from shabu to shaws. The most common are share, shall, shape, shame and sharp.

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All 34 five-letter words that start with SHA

  • shabu10n. Methedrine; methamphetamine.
  • shack14n. A crude, roughly built hut or cabin.
  • shade9n. Darkness where light, particularly sunlight, is blocked.
  • shady12adj. Abounding in shades.
  • shaft11n. The long, narrow, central body of a spear, arrow, or javelin.
  • shahi11n. A former currency unit of Iran, worth one twentieth of a qiran.
  • shail8v. To walk or move unsteadily or haphazardly; stumbling or shuffling.
  • shaka12n. A greeting gesture in which the thumb and little finger are extended...
  • shake12v. To cause (something) to move rapidly in opposite directions...
  • shako12n. A stiff, cylindrical military dress hat with a metal plate in front, a...
  • shaku12n. The Japanese foot, a traditional Japanese unit of length equal to 10...
  • shaky15adj. Shaking or trembling.
  • shale8n. A shell, scale or husk; a cod or pod.
  • shall8v. Used before a verb to indicate the simple future tense in the first...
  • shaly11adj. Pertaining to or resembling shale.
  • shama10n. Copsychus malabaricus (white-rumped shama), a saxicoline songbird of...
  • shame10n. An uncomfortable or painful feeling due to recognition or consciousness...
  • shand9n. Shame; scandal; disgrace.
  • shang9n. A Chinese unit of land area equivalent to 15 mu or about one hectare.
  • shank12n. The part of the leg between the knee and the ankle.
  • shant8n. A drink, usually a pint.
  • shape10n. The status or condition of something.
  • shard9n. A piece of broken glass or pottery, especially one found in an...
  • share8n. A portion of something, especially a portion given or allotted to...
  • shari8n. Dead wood on the main trunk of a bonsai tree.
  • shark12n. Any predatory fish of the superorder Selachimorpha, with a...
  • sharm10n. Self-harm.
  • sharn8n. The dung or manure of cattle or sheep.
  • sharp10adj. Terminating in a point or edge, especially one that can cut or pierce...
  • shash11n. The scarf of a turban.
  • shave11v. To make (the head, skin etc.) bald or (the hair) shorter by using a...
  • shawl11n. A square or rectangular piece of cloth worn as a covering for the head...
  • shawm13n. A mediaeval double-reed wind instrument with a conical wooden body.
  • shaws11n. Stalks or leaves of root vegetables.
3 rare five-letter words that start with SHA

Questions about these words

How many five-letter words that start with SHA are there?
Word.ws lists 34 five-letter words that start with SHA, plus 3 rare ones.
What are common five-letter words that start with SHA?
share, shall, shape, shame, sharp, shake, shade and shark.
Which of the five-letter words that start with SHA has the highest letter score?
shaky scores 15 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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