5-Letter Words Starting with TEN
There are 12 five-letter words that start with TEN on Word.ws, from tench to tenue. The most common are tense, tenth, tenor, tenet and tench.
Meanings from Wiktionary. Not an official Scrabble, Words With Friends or Wordle word list.
All 12 five-letter words that start with TEN
- tench10n. A species of freshwater game fish, Tinca tinca.
- tendu6n. A move in which the leg and foot stretch to point in a particular...
- tenet5n. An opinion, belief, or principle that is held as absolute truth by...
- tenga6n. The currency of Bukhara before 1920, divided into 10 falus.
- tenge6n. The basic monetary unit of Kazakhstan; subdivided into tiyin.
- tengu6n. A mythical Japanese creature, typically birdlike and having a long nose.
- tenno5n. The emperor of Japan as head of state and the head of the Japanese...
- tenon5n. A projecting member left by cutting away the wood around it, and made...
- tenor5n. A musical range or section higher than bass and lower than alto.
- tense5n. The property of indicating the point in time at which an action or...
- tenth8adj. The ordinal numeral form of ten; next in order after that which is...
- tenue5n. Bearing, carriage, deportment.
Questions about these words
- How many five-letter words that start with TEN are there?
- Word.ws lists 12 five-letter words that start with TEN.
- What are common five-letter words that start with TEN?
- tense, tenth, tenor, tenet, tench, tengu, tenon and tenga.
- Which of the five-letter words that start with TEN has the highest letter score?
- tench scores 10 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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