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5-Letter Words Starting with SHE

There are 13 five-letter words that start with SHE on Word.ws, from sheaf to sheth. The most common are sheet, shell, sheep, shelf and sheer.

Meanings from Wiktionary. Not an official Scrabble, Words With Friends or Wordle word list.

All 13 five-letter words that start with SHE

  • sheaf11n. A quantity of the stalks and ears of wheat, rye, or other grain, bound...
  • shear8v. To remove the fleece from (a sheep, llama, etc.) by clipping.
  • sheat8n. A sheatfish.
  • sheen8n. Splendor; radiance; shininess.
  • sheep10n. A woolly ruminant of the genus Ovis.
  • sheer8adj. Very thin or transparent.
  • sheet8n. A thin bed cloth used as a covering for a mattress or as a layer over...
  • shelf11n. A flat, rigid structure, fixed at right angles to a wall or forming a...
  • shell8n. The calcareous or chitinous external covering of mollusks, crustaceans...
  • sheng9n. A Chinese wind instrument, a free-reed mouth organ consisting of 13 or...
  • sherm10n. The drug phencyclidine (PCP).
  • shero8n. A female hero.
  • sheth11n. The bar on a plough which projects downward beneath the beam to connect...
2 rare five-letter words that start with SHE

Questions about these words

How many five-letter words that start with SHE are there?
Word.ws lists 13 five-letter words that start with SHE, plus 2 rare ones.
What are common five-letter words that start with SHE?
sheet, shell, sheep, shelf, sheer, shear, sheen and sheng.
Which of the five-letter words that start with SHE has the highest letter score?
sheth scores 11 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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