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5-Letter Words Starting with SPI

There are 21 five-letter words that start with SPI on Word.ws, from spica to spitz. The most common are spite, spike, spice, spine and spill.

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

All 21 five-letter words that start with SPI

  • spica9n. A spike (kind of inflorescence in which sessile flowers are arranged on...
  • spice9n. Aromatic or pungent plant matter (usually dried) used to season or...
  • spick13adj. Tidy; fresh.
  • spicy12adj. Of, pertaining to, or containing spice.
  • spiel7n. A lengthy and extravagant speech or argument usually intended to...
  • spier7n. One who spies; a spy.
  • spiff13n. Attractiveness or charm in dress, appearance, or manner.
  • spike11n. A sort of very large nail.
  • spiky14adj. Of a plant: producing spikes (“ears (as of corn); inflorescences in...
  • spile7n. A spigot or plug used to stop the hole in a barrel or cask.
  • spill7v. To drop something so that it spreads out or makes a mess; to...
  • spilt7adj. That has been spilled.
  • spina7n. A spine; the backbone.
  • spine7n. A series of bones situated at the back from the head to the pelvis of a...
  • spink11n. The primrose.
  • spins7n. Vertigo.
  • spiny10adj. Covered in spines or thorns.
  • spire7n. A young shoot of a plant; a spear.
  • spiro7n. A polycyclic compound or system that contains a single atom as the only...
  • spite7n. Ill will or hatred toward another, accompanied with the desire to...
  • spitz16n. Any of several Nordic breeds of dog such as the Pomeranian or Samoyed.
4 rare five-letter words that start with SPI

Questions about these words

How many five-letter words that start with SPI are there?
Word.ws lists 21 five-letter words that start with SPI, plus 4 rare ones.
What are common five-letter words that start with SPI?
spite, spike, spice, spine, spill, spicy, spins and spire.
Which of the five-letter words that start with SPI has the highest letter score?
spitz scores 16 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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