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5-Letter Words Starting with STO

There are 28 five-letter words that start with STO on Word.ws, from stoat to stove. The most common are story, store, stock, stone and storm.

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All 28 five-letter words that start with STO

  • stoat5n. Mustela erminea, the ermine or short-tailed weasel, a mustelid native...
  • stock11n. A store or supply.
  • stoep7n. A raised veranda in front of a house.
  • stoic7n. Proponent of stoicism, a school of thought, from in 300 B.C.E. up to...
  • stoke9n. An act of poking, piercing, thrusting.
  • stola5n. The traditional garment of women in Ancient Rome, corresponding to the...
  • stole5n. A garment consisting of a decorated band worn on the back of the neck...
  • stoll5v. To understand.
  • stoma7n. One of the tiny pores in the epidermis of a leaf or stem through which...
  • stomp9v. To trample heavily.
  • stone5n. A hard earthen substance that can form rocks; especially, such...
  • stong6n. An area of land equivalent to a quarter of an acre; a rood; a stang.
  • stonk9n. A heavy artillery bombardment.
  • stony8adj. As hard as stone.
  • stook9n. A pile or bundle, especially of straw.
  • stool5n. A seat for one person without a back or armrests.
  • stoop7n. A stooping, bent position of the body.
  • stope7n. A mining excavation in the form of a terrace of steps.
  • store5n. A place where items may be accumulated or routinely kept.
  • stork9n. A large wading bird with long legs and a long beak of the order...
  • storm7n. Any disturbed state of the atmosphere causing destructive or unpleasant...
  • story8n. An account of real or fictional events.
  • stosh8n. Fish offal.
  • stoss5adj. Used to describe one side of roche moutonnée.
  • stoup7n. A receptacle for holy water, especially a basin set at the entrance of...
  • stour5adj. Tall; big; stout.
  • stout5adj. Large; bulky.
  • stove8n. A heater, a closed apparatus to burn fuel for the warming of a room.
5 rare five-letter words that start with STO

Questions about these words

How many five-letter words that start with STO are there?
Word.ws lists 28 five-letter words that start with STO, plus 5 rare ones.
What are common five-letter words that start with STO?
story, store, stock, stone, storm, stole, stoke and stove.
Which of the five-letter words that start with STO has the highest letter score?
stock scores 11 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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