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5-Letter Words Starting with SHO

There are 26 five-letter words that start with SHO on Word.ws, from shoah to shoyu. The most common are short, shoot, shock, shore and shout.

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

All 26 five-letter words that start with SHO

  • shoah11n. A mass murder.
  • shoal8n. A sandbank or sandbar creating a shallow.
  • shoat8n. A weaned piglet; any piglet.
  • shobe10n. The youngest sister.
  • shock14n. A sudden, heavy impact.
  • shodo9n. Japanese calligraphy.
  • shoey11n. A shoe.
  • shogi9n. Japanese chess; a board game similar to chess, invented and...
  • shoji15n. A door or partition consisting of a wooden frame covered in rice paper...
  • shojo15n. A style of anime and manga intended for young women.
  • shola8n. A wild plant of species Aeschynomene aspera, found in Bengal and Assam...
  • shole8n. A wooden block plank fixed beneath an object, such as the rudder of a...
  • shook12n. A set of pieces for making a cask or box, usually wood.
  • shool8v. To move materials with a shovel.
  • shoop10n. The fruit of the rose; rosehip.
  • shoot8v. To fire (a weapon that releases a bullet or other projectile).
  • shorb10n. A shorebird.
  • shore8n. Land adjoining a non-flowing body of water, such as an ocean, lake or...
  • shorn8adj. Of a sheep, etc., having been shorn.
  • short8adj. Having a small distance from one end or edge to another, either...
  • shota8n. Hentai anime or manga, or other Japanese-inspired erotic art featuring...
  • shoto8n. In the Street Fighter series, either of the playable characters Ryu and...
  • shout8n. A loud burst of voice or voices; a violent and sudden outcry...
  • shove11v. To push, especially roughly or with force.
  • showy14adj. Making a striking or aesthetically pleasing display.
  • shoyu11n. A dark form of soy sauce.
8 rare five-letter words that start with SHO

Questions about these words

How many five-letter words that start with SHO are there?
Word.ws lists 26 five-letter words that start with SHO, plus 8 rare ones.
What are common five-letter words that start with SHO?
short, shoot, shock, shore, shout, shook, shove and shoal.
Which of the five-letter words that start with SHO has the highest letter score?
shojo 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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