5-Letter Words Starting with W

All 213 five-letter words that start with W

WA

• waaay11adv. Elongated form of way.
• wacko14interj. Hurrah!
• wacky17adj. Zany; eccentric.
• waddy13n. A cowboy.
• wader9n. One who wades.
• wadge10n. Thick slice of bread.
• wafer11n. A light, thin, flat biscuit/cookie.
• waged10adj. Receiving a wage.
• wager9n. A bet; a stake; a pledge.
• wages9n. One's total income for a time period.
• wagga10n. A rug created from material scraps, small raw wool scraps and hessian...
• waggy13adj. Having a tendency to wag.
• wagon9n. A heavier four-wheeled (normally horse-drawn) vehicle designed to carry...
• wagyu12n. Any of several Japanese breeds of cattle genetically predisposed to...
• wahey14interj. Expressing exhilaration or delight.
• wahoo11n. Acanthocybium solandri, a tropical and subtropical game fish.
• waist8n. The part of the body between the pelvis and the stomach.
• waits8n. A group of singers or musicians performing in the streets, especially...
• waive11v. To relinquish (a right etc.); to give up claim to; to forgo.
• wajib17n. A religious duty; something that Muslims are obliged to do.
• waken12v. To wake or rouse from sleep.
• waker12adj. Watchful; vigilant; alert.
• wakes12n. A community holiday, particularly in northern England.
• wakey15n. The day on which one wakes up and travels home.
• wakil12n. In Arabian countries and in Pakistan, India and Bangladesh, a lawyer or...
• waldo9n. Synonym of telefactor.
• waler8n. A breed of light saddle horse from Australia, once favoured as a...
• walia8n. The ibex Capra walie.
• walls8n. The vagina.
• wally11n. A fool.
• waltz17n. A ballroom dance in 3/4 time.
• wandy12adj. Long and flexible, like a wand; wandlike.
• waned9adj. Having wanes, i.e. rounded corners caused by lack of wood, often...
• wanga9n. A magic spell or charm.
• wango9n. A boomerang.
• wanly11adv. In a wan or pale manner.
• wanst8adv. Once.
• wanty11n. A girth or belly-band for a horse's harness.
• wares8n. Goods or services that are for sale.
• waria8n. A member of Indonesia's traditional transfeminine third gender category.
• warry11adj. Warlike, warrish.
• warsh11v. Appalachia, Midland, Ozarks, and Northern Ireland form of wash.
• warth11n. A ford.
• warty11adj. Having warts.
• washi11n. A tough paper used in traditional Japanese art forms.
• washy14adj. Watery; damp; soft.
• waspy13adj. Resembling or characteristic of a wasp; wasplike.
• wasta8n. Intercession or mediation by people on behalf of others to whom they...
• waste8n. Excess of material, useless by-products, or damaged, unsaleable...
• watch13n. A portable or wearable timepiece.
• water8n. An inorganic compound (of molecular formula H₂O) found at room...
• watsu8n. A form of body massage performed on a subject lying in warm water.
• waugh12adj. Insipid; tasteless.
• waved12adj. Having a wave-like form or outline; undulating.
• waver11v. To swing or wave, especially in the air, wind, etc.; to flutter.
• wavey14n. The snow goose (Chen caerulescens).
• waxed16adj. Of an object, coated or treated with wax in order to make it shiny or...
• waxen15adj. Grown.
• waxer15n. A device used to apply wax.
• wazir17n. Vizier.
• wazoo17n. The anus.

WE

• weald9n. A forest or wood.
• weary11adj. Having the strength exhausted by toil or exertion; tired; fatigued.
• weave11v. To form something by passing lengths or strands of material over and...
• webby15adj. Consisting of, resembling, or having webs or a web.
• weber10n. In the International System of Units, the derived unit of magnetic...
• wecht13n. A form of sieve used to winnow grain; the weight of its contents.
• wedge10n. One of the simple machines; a piece of material, such as metal or wood...
• wedgy13adj. Resembling a wedge, especially in shape.
• weeds9n. Clothes.
• weedy12adj. Abounding with weeds.
• weeny11adj. Minuscule; tiny.
• weepy13adj. Inclined to weep; tearful or lachrymose.
• weeze17v. To ooze, exude; drain away; distil gently.
• weigh12v. To determine the weight of an object.
• weiqi17n. An ancient Chinese board game, today also popular in Japan and Korea...
• weird9adj. Having an unusually strange character or behaviour.
• welch13n. A person who defaults on an obligation, especially a small one.
• welly11n. A Wellington boot.
• welsh11v. To cheat or swindle someone, often by not paying a debt, especially a...
• wench13n. A girl or young woman, especially a buxom or lively one.
• wenge9n. A very dark and hard tropical timber, from the tree species Millettia...
• werry11adv. Very.
• westy11adj. Dizzy, giddy, confused.
• wetly11adv. In a wet manner.

WH

• whack17n. The sound of a heavy strike.
• whale11n. Any large cetacean, usually with the exclusion of dolphins and...
• whang12v. To make a noise like something moving quickly through the air.
• whare11n. A Maori house or other building.
• wharf14n. An artificial landing place for ships on a riverbank or shore.
• wheal11n. A small raised swelling on the skin, often itchy, caused by a blow from...
• wheat11n. Any of the several cereal grains, of the genus Triticum, that yields...
• wheel11n. A circular device capable of rotating on its axis, facilitating...
• wheen11n. A little; a small number.
• whelk15n. Certain edible sea snails, especially, any one of numerous species of...
• whelm13n. A surge of water.
• whelp13n. A young offspring of a various carnivores (canid, ursid, felid...
• where11adv. In, at or to what place.
• which16det. What, of those mentioned or implied.
• whiff17n. A brief, gentle breeze; a light gust of air; a waft.
• while11n. An uncertain duration of time, a period of time.
• whine11n. A long-drawn, high-pitched complaining cry or sound.
• whiny14adj. Whining; tending to whine or complain.
• whirl11v. To rotate, revolve, spin or turn rapidly.
• whirr11v. To move or vibrate (something) with a buzzing sound.
• whish14n. A sibilant sound, especially that of rapid movement through the air.
• whisk15n. A quick, light sweeping motion.
• whist11n. Any of several four-player card games, similar to bridge.
• white11adj. Bright and colourless; reflecting equal quantities of all frequencies...
• whity14adj. Close to white in colour.
• whole11adj. Entire, undivided.
• whomp15v. To hit extremely hard.
• whoof14interj. The sound of a dog barking.
• whoop13n. A loud, eager cry, usually of joy.
• whoot11v. To hoot.
• whorl11n. Each circle, volution or equivalent in a pattern of concentric circles...
• whose11det. Of whom, belonging to whom; which person's or people's.
• whoso11pron. Whosoever, whatever person.
• whump15n. A soft thumping sound.
• whyyy20adv. Elongated form of why.

WI

• wicky17n. Sheep laurel, a shrub of species Kalmia angustifolia.
• widen9v. To become wide or wider.
• widow12n. A woman whose spouse (traditionally husband) has died (and who has not...
• width12n. The state of being wide.
• wield9v. To handle with skill and ease, especially a weapon or tool.
• wifed12adj. Having a wife or the specified number of wives.
• wifey14adj. Of, befitting, pertaining to, or characteristic of a wife.
• wigan9n. A canvas-like cotton fabric, often coated with latex rubber, used to...
• wiggy13adj. Crazy.
• wight12n. A supernatural being, often used in compounds such as the land-vættr...
• wilco10interj. Indicates agreement and compliance.
• wilds9n. Wilderness.
• wilga9n. Geijera parviflora, a small tree or bush found in inland parts of...
• willy11adj. Self-willed; willful.
• wilty11adj. Tending to wilt.
• wince10n. A sudden movement or gesture of shrinking away.
• winch13n. A machine consisting of a drum on an axle, a friction brake or ratchet...
• windy12adj. Accompanied by wind.
• winer8n. A person who habitually drinks wine.
• wings9n. A type of scuba harness with an attached buoyancy compensation device...
• wingy12n. One who has an amputated arm or arms.
• winky15adj. Tending to wink; winking.
• winne8n. Joy; delight; pleasure.
• winny11n. Synonym of winnebago.
• wiped11adj. Very tired.
• wiper10n. Someone who wipes.
• wired9adj. Equipped with wires, so as to connect to a power source or to other...
• wisen8v. To become wise or wiser.
• wispy13adj. Consisting of or resembling a wisp; like a slender, flexible strand or...
• wisse8v. To show, teach, inform, guide, direct.
• witan8n. The Anglo-Saxon national council or witenagemot.
• witch13n. A person (now usually particularly a woman) who uses magical or similar...
• withe11n. A flexible, slender shoot or twig, especially when used as a band or...
• withy14n. An osier (Salix viminalis), a type of willow.
• witte8n. Spelling of wit.
• witts8n. Tin ore freed from earthy matter by stamping.
• witty11adj. Clever; amusingly ingenious.
• wizzy29n. A wisdom tooth.

WO

• wodge10n. A bulk mass, usually of small items, particularly money; a wad.
• woken12v. To make or become woke or woker.
• wolfy14adj. Wolfish; like a wolf.
• wolve11v. To behave like a wolf.
• woman10n. An adult female human.
• womxn17n. Feminist spelling of woman.
• womyn13n. Feminist spelling of woman.
• wonga9n. Money.
• wonju15n. A long-sleeved blouse worn by women in Bhutan.
• wonky15adj. Lopsided, misaligned or off-centre.
• woods9n. A dense collection of trees, usually one covering a relatively small...
• woody12adj. Covered in woods; wooded.
• wooer8n. Someone who woos or courts.
• woofy14adj. Prone to woofing.
• wootz17n. A type of steel from India, much admired for making sword blades.
• woozy20adj. Queasy, dizzy, or disoriented.
• words9n. Angry debate or conversation; argument.
• wordy12adj. Using an excessive number of words.
• works12n. A factory or factories, or a similar collection(s) of industrial...
• worky15adj. Characterized by or pertaining to work.
• world9n. The subjective human experience, regarded collectively; human...
• wormy13adj. Of or like a worm or worms; shaped like a worm or worms.
• worry11v. To be troubled; to give way to mental anxiety or doubt.
• worse8adv. Less skillfully.
• worst8adj. Most inferior; doing the least good.
• worth11adj. Having a value of; proper to be exchanged for.
• worts8n. A soup or stew made with worts (“vegetables”) and other ingredients...
• would9v. Used to form the "anterior future", or "future in the past", indicating...
• wound9n. An injury, such as a cut, stab, or tear, to a (usually external) part...
• woven11adj. Fabricated by weaving.
• wowed12v. To apply an emoticon with the meaning of "wow".
• wowee11interj. Wow; expressing astonishment, surprise or excitement.
• wowie11interj. Synonym of wow.
• wowza20adj. Wondrous, surprisingly impressive.

WR

• wrack14n. The remains of something; a wreck.
• wraps10adj. Finished; hopeless.
• wrath11n. Great anger; (countable) an instance of this.
• wreak12v. To cause harm; to afflict; to inflict; to harm or injure; to let out...
• wreck14n. Something or someone that has been ruined.
• wrest8v. To pull or twist violently.
• wring9v. Often followed by out: to squeeze or twist (something moist) tightly so...
• wrist8n. The complex joint between forearm bones, carpus, and metacarpals where...
• write8v. To form letters, words or symbols on a surface in order to communicate.
• wrong9adj. Incorrect or untrue.
• wroth11adj. Full of anger; wrathful.
• wryly14adv. In a wry or sarcastic manner; ironically.

WU

• wunna8pron. You (plural); y'all, you guys, you all.
• wurly11adj. Of an object: derisorily small, tiny; of a person: puny, stunted.
• wurst8n. A German- or Austrian-style sausage.
• wushu11n. Any Chinese martial art.
• wussy11adj. Weak or timid.
• wuxia15n. A genre of East Asian fiction concerning the adventures of martial...
• wuzzy29part. Only used in fuzzy-wuzzy.

WW

• wwoof14v. To work on an organic farm in exchange for room, board, and education...

WY

• wythe14n. A continuous vertical section of masonry, one unit in thickness.

Questions about these words

How many five-letter words that start with W are there?

Word.ws lists 213 five-letter words that start with W, plus 104 rare ones.

What are common five-letter words that start with W?

which, would, where, world, while, water, white and whole.

Which of the five-letter words that start with W has the highest letter score?

wuzzy scores 29 points with the standard letter tile values.

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