5-Letter Words Starting with WE
There are 24 five-letter words that start with WE on Word.ws, from weald to wetly. The most common are weird, welsh, weigh, wedge and weary.
Meanings from Wiktionary. Not an official Scrabble, Words With Friends or Wordle word list.
All 24 five-letter words that start with 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.
16 rare five-letter words that start with WE
Questions about these words
- How many five-letter words that start with WE are there?
- Word.ws lists 24 five-letter words that start with WE, plus 16 rare ones.
- What are common five-letter words that start with WE?
- weird, welsh, weigh, wedge, weary, weber, weave and weeds.
- Which of the five-letter words that start with WE has the highest letter score?
- weiqi scores 17 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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