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5-Letter Words Starting with SN

There are 33 five-letter words that start with SN on Word.ws, from snack to snuff. The most common are snake, sneak, snack, snail and snowy.

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

All 33 five-letter words that start with SN

  • snack11n. A light meal.
  • snafu8v. To screw up, fuck up, or foul up.
  • snail5n. Any of very many animals (either hermaphroditic or nonhermaphroditic)...
  • snake9n. Any of the suborder Serpentes of legless reptiles with long, thin...
  • snaky12adj. Resembling or relating to snakes; snakelike.
  • snape7v. To bevel the end of a timber to fit against an inclined surface.
  • snare5n. A trap (especially one made from a loop of wire, string, or leather).
  • snarf8v. To eat or consume greedily.
  • snark9n. An attitude or expression of mocking irreverence and sarcasm.
  • snarl5v. To entangle; to complicate; to involve in knots.
  • snart5n. The phenomenon where one sneezes and farts at the same time.
  • snead6v. To cut; lop; prune.
  • sneak9n. One who sneaks; one who moves stealthily to acquire an item or...
  • sneer5v. To raise a corner of the upper lip slightly, especially in scorn.
  • snell5adj. Quick, smart; sharp, active, brisk or nimble; lively.
  • snick11v. To cut or snip.
  • snide6adj. Disparaging or derisive in an insinuative way.
  • sniff11v. To make a short, audible inhalation, through the nose, as when smelling...
  • snipe7n. Any of various limicoline game birds of the genera Gallinago...
  • snips7n. Shears; hand tools used to cut sheet metal and other tough webs.
  • snoek9n. An edible fish, Thyrsites atun, native to South African (Cape), South...
  • snoke9v. To sniff or smell; to sniff at; to poke around sniffing with the nose.
  • snood6n. A band or ribbon for keeping the hair in place, including the hair-band...
  • snook9n. A freshwater and marine fish of the family Centropomidae in the order...
  • snoop7v. To be devious and cunning so as not to be seen.
  • snoot5n. An elitist or snobbish person.
  • snore5v. To breathe during sleep with harsh, snorting noises caused by vibration...
  • snork9v. To snore.
  • snort5n. The sound made by exhaling or inhaling roughly through the nose.
  • snout5n. The long, projecting nose, mouth, and jaw of a beast, as of pigs.
  • snows8n. One or both regions of the Earth where it snows the year round; the...
  • snowy11adj. Marked by snow; characterized by snow.
  • snuff11n. Finely ground or pulverized tobacco (or other plant derivative)...
24 rare five-letter words that start with SN

Questions about these words

How many five-letter words that start with SN are there?
Word.ws lists 33 five-letter words that start with SN, plus 24 rare ones.
What are common five-letter words that start with SN?
snake, sneak, snack, snail, snowy, sniff, snoop and snare.
Which of the five-letter words that start with SN has the highest letter score?
snaky scores 12 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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