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5-Letter Words Starting with TAN

There are 15 five-letter words that start with TAN on Word.ws, from tanda to tanty. The most common are tango, tania, tangy, tanto and tanga.

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

All 15 five-letter words that start with TAN

  • tanda6n. A turn of dancing in a milonga or tango; a music set or broadcast...
  • tanga6n. Any of various former Asian coins, including: a coin of Portuguese...
  • tangi6n. A Maori dirge, or song for the dead.
  • tango6n. A standard ballroom dance in 4/4 time; or a social dance, the Argentine...
  • tangy9adj. Having a sharp, pungent flavor.
  • tanha8n. Cravings; desires.
  • tania5n. New cocoyam, yautia (Xanthosoma sagittifolium).
  • tanka9n. A form of Japanese verse in five lines of 5, 7, 5, 7, and 7 morae.
  • tanky12adj. Having a dank quality resulting from excessive ageing in a tank.
  • tanoa5n. A bowl for serving kava.
  • tansu5n. A traditional portable chest from Japan.
  • tansy8n. A herbaceous plant with yellow flowers, of the genus Tanacetum...
  • tante5n. A Jewish aunt.
  • tanto5n. A traditional Japanese small sword or knife; often used as a secondary...
  • tanty8n. A tantrum.
2 rare five-letter words that start with TAN

Questions about these words

How many five-letter words that start with TAN are there?
Word.ws lists 15 five-letter words that start with TAN, plus 2 rare ones.
What are common five-letter words that start with TAN?
tango, tania, tangy, tanto, tanga, tante, tanka and tansy.
Which of the five-letter words that start with TAN has the highest letter score?
tanky 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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