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5-Letter Words Starting with STE

There are 25 five-letter words that start with STE on Word.ws, from stead to stewy. The most common are steps, steel, steve, steam and steal.

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All 25 five-letter words that start with STE

  • stead6n. The position or function (of someone or something), as taken on by a...
  • steak9n. Beefsteak: a slice of beef, broiled or cut for broiling.
  • steal5v. To take illegally, or without the owner's permission, something owned...
  • steam7n. The hot gaseous form of water, formed when water changes from the...
  • steck11n. A piece or an item.
  • steed6n. A bicycle or other vehicle.
  • steek9v. To stitch (sew with a needle).
  • steel5n. An artificial metal produced from iron, harder and more elastic than...
  • steem7n. A gleam of light; a flame.
  • steep7adj. Of a near-vertical gradient; of a slope, surface, curve, etc. that...
  • steer5v. To guide the course of a vessel, vehicle, aircraft etc. (by means of a...
  • steez14n. Style; panache.
  • stego6adj. Steganographic; relating to or hidden using steganography.
  • stein5n. A beer mug, usually made of ceramic or glass.
  • stela5n. An obelisk or upright stone pillar, usually as a primitive...
  • stele5n. An upright (or formerly upright) slab containing engraved or painted...
  • stell5v. To place in position; set up, fix, plant; prop, mount.
  • steno5n. A stenographer, someone whose job is to take dictation in shorthand.
  • stent5n. A slender tube inserted into a blood vessel, a ureter or the oesophagus...
  • steps7n. A course followed by a person in walking or as walking.
  • stere5n. A measure of volume used e.g. for cut wood, equal to one cubic metre.
  • stern5adj. Having a hardness and severity of nature or manner.
  • steve8v. To pack or stow, as cargo in a ship's hold.
  • stews8n. A brothel.
  • stewy11adj. Stew-like, similar to stew.
5 rare five-letter words that start with STE

Questions about these words

How many five-letter words that start with STE are there?
Word.ws lists 25 five-letter words that start with STE, plus 5 rare ones.
What are common five-letter words that start with STE?
steps, steel, steve, steam, steal, steep, steak and stern.
Which of the five-letter words that start with STE has the highest letter score?
steez scores 14 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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