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5-Letter Words Starting with SWA

There are 13 five-letter words that start with SWA on Word.ws, from swage to swath. The most common are swamp, swarm, swami, swain and swath.

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

All 13 five-letter words that start with SWA

  • 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.
7 rare five-letter words that start with SWA

Questions about these words

How many five-letter words that start with SWA are there?
Word.ws lists 13 five-letter words that start with SWA, plus 7 rare ones.
What are common five-letter words that start with SWA?
swamp, swarm, swami, swain, swath, swash, swale and swart.
Which of the five-letter words that start with SWA has the highest letter score?
swamp 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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