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5-Letter Words Starting with WO

There are 34 five-letter words that start with WO on Word.ws, from wodge to wowza. The most common are would, world, woman, works and words.

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

All 34 five-letter words that start with 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.
16 rare five-letter words that start with WO

Questions about these words

How many five-letter words that start with WO are there?
Word.ws lists 34 five-letter words that start with WO, plus 16 rare ones.
What are common five-letter words that start with WO?
would, world, woman, works, words, worth, worst and worse.
Which of the five-letter words that start with WO has the highest letter score?
wowza scores 20 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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