5-Letter Words Starting with SW
There are 37 five-letter words that start with SW on Word.ws, from swage to sworn. The most common are sweet, swear, sword, swing and swiss.
Meanings from Wiktionary. Not an official Scrabble, Words With Friends or Wordle word list.
All 37 five-letter words that start with SW
- swage9n. A tool, used by blacksmiths and other metalworkers, for shaping of a...
- swain8n. A rural lover; a male sweetheart in a pastoral setting.
- swale8n. A low tract of moist or marshy land.
- swami10n. A Hindu ascetic or religious teacher.
- swamp12n. An area of wet (water-saturated), spongy (soft) land, often with trees...
- swang9n. A swamp.
- swara8n. Synonym of vani (“arranged marriage practice”).
- sward9n. Earth which grass has grown into the upper layer of; greensward, sod...
- swarf11n. The waste chips or shavings from an abrasive activity, such as...
- swarm10n. A large number of insects or other bugs (e.g. centipedes), especially...
- swart8adj. Of a dark hue; moderately black; swarthy; tawny.
- swash11n. The water that washes up on shore after an incoming wave has broken.
- swath11n. The track cut out by a scythe in mowing.
- swear8v. To take an oath, to promise intensely, solemnly, and/or with legally...
- sweat8n. Fluid that exits the body through pores in the skin usually due to...
- swede9n. The fleshy yellow root of a variety of rapeseed, Brassica napus var....
- sweep10v. To clean (a surface) by means of a stroking motion of a broom or brush.
- sweet8adj. Tasting of sugars.
- swell8v. To become larger, fuller, or rounder, or expand in size or shape...
- swept10adj. Cleared of mines (explosive devices).
- swift11adj. Fast; quick; rapid.
- swill8n. A mixture of solid and liquid food scraps fed to pigs etc; especially...
- swine8n. A pig, an animal of family Suidae, especially in agricultural contexts.
- swing9v. To rotate about an off-centre fixed point.
- swink12n. Toil, work, drudgery.
- swipe10v. To grab or bat quickly.
- swire8n. A hollow between two hills or peaks, especially with a road running...
- swirl8v. To twist or whirl, as an eddy.
- swish11adj. Sophisticated; fashionable; smooth.
- swiss8v. To prepare (meat, fabric, etc.) by rolling or pounding in order to...
- swith11adj. Strong; vehement.
- swizz26n. A swindle, con.
- swole8adj. Swollen, enlarged.
- swoon8n. A faint.
- swoop10v. To fly or glide downwards suddenly; to plunge (in the air) or nosedive.
- sword9n. A long bladed weapon with a grip and typically a pommel and crossguard...
- sworn8adj. Given or declared under oath.
19 rare five-letter words that start with SW
Questions about these words
- How many five-letter words that start with SW are there?
- Word.ws lists 37 five-letter words that start with SW, plus 19 rare ones.
- What are common five-letter words that start with SW?
- sweet, swear, sword, swing, swiss, swift, sweat and sweep.
- Which of the five-letter words that start with SW has the highest letter score?
- swizz scores 26 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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