Word.ws English Dictionary

5-Letter Words Starting with WR

There are 12 five-letter words that start with WR on Word.ws, from wrack to wryly. The most common are wrong, write, wrist, wreck and wrath.

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

All 12 five-letter words that start with 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.
8 rare five-letter words that start with WR

Questions about these words

How many five-letter words that start with WR are there?
Word.ws lists 12 five-letter words that start with WR, plus 8 rare ones.
What are common five-letter words that start with WR?
wrong, write, wrist, wreck, wrath, wraps, wreak and wring.
Which of the five-letter words that start with WR has the highest letter score?
wryly scores 14 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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