Word.ws English Dictionary

5-Letter Words Starting with SHI

There are 20 five-letter words that start with SHI on Word.ws, from shian to shive. The most common are shirt, shift, shine, shiny and shire.

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

All 20 five-letter words that start with SHI

  • shian8n. A magical fairy mound.
  • shide9n. A piece of wood (a thin board or plank, or a strip of wood split off)...
  • shido9n. A minor penalty in judo.
  • shiel8n. A shepherd's hut or shieling.
  • shift11n. A movement to do something, a beginning.
  • shifu11n. Synonym of sifu: the Mandarin Chinese-derived name.
  • shiko12n. One of the basic sumo exercises, in which the rikishi raises a leg high...
  • shill8n. A person paid to endorse a product while pretending to be impartial.
  • shine8v. To emit or reflect light so as to glow.
  • shiny11adj. Reflecting light.
  • shiok12adj. Delightful, pleasurable.
  • shire8n. An administrative area or district between about the 5th to the 11th...
  • shirk12v. To avoid, especially a duty, responsibility, etc.; to stay away from.
  • shiro8n. A stew of Ethiopia and Eritrea origin whose primary ingredient is...
  • shirt8n. An article of clothing that is worn on the upper part of the body...
  • shish11interj. Used to request quiet; similar to shh.
  • shiso8n. Any of several varieties of the herb Perilla frutescens, related to...
  • shiur8n. A lesson on a topic in the Tanakh.
  • shiva11n. A weeklong period of formal mourning for a close relative.
  • shive11n. A slice, especially of bread.
5 rare five-letter words that start with SHI

Questions about these words

How many five-letter words that start with SHI are there?
Word.ws lists 20 five-letter words that start with SHI, plus 5 rare ones.
What are common five-letter words that start with SHI?
shirt, shift, shine, shiny, shire, shiva, shiro and shill.
Which of the five-letter words that start with SHI has the highest letter score?
shirk scores 12 points with the standard letter tile values.

Related word lists

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.

Cite this page: “5-Letter Words Starting with SHI: 20 Words.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/words/5-letter/starting-with-shi. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.