5-Letter Words with F

All 528 five-letter words with F: page 1 of 2

A

• abaft10prep. Behind; toward the stern relative to some other object or position; aft...
• affix18n. A bound morpheme added to a word’s stem, such as a prefix or suffix.
• afire8adv. On fire (often metaphorically).
• afoot8adv. On foot. (means of locomotion, walking).
• afore8prep. Before; in advance of the time of.
• afoul8adv. In a state of entanglement or conflict (with).
• after8adv. Behind; later in time; following.
• alfin8n. A bishop.
• alief8n. A primitive, subconscious belieflike attitude which may contradict...
• alife8adv. With all one's heart; dearly.
• aloft8adv. At, to, or in the air or sky.
• aloof8adv. At or from a distance, but within view, or at a small distance; apart...
• awful11adj. Very bad.

B

• bafta10n. A coarse material, usually of cotton, originally made in India.
• barfi10n. An Indian dessert made from sweetened, condensed milk flavoured with...
• barfy13adj. Resembling vomit in colour, texture, etc.
• beefy13adj. Similar to, or tasting like beef.
• befit10v. To be fit for.
• befoe10v. To make or become a foe.
• biffo13n. Violence, fighting; a fight.
• biffy16n. A toilet.
• bifid11adj. Cleft; divided into two principal or main parts, such as two lobes.
• bluff13n. An act of bluffing; a false expression of the strength of one’s...
• boeuf10n. A bovine.
• boffo13adj. Outstanding; very good or successful.
• brief10adj. Of short duration; happening quickly.
• buffa13n. The comic actress in an opera.
• buffo13n. A comic singer, particularly in comic opera.
• buffy16adj. Of a buff color.

C

• chafe13n. Heat excited by friction.
• chaff16n. The inedible parts of a grain-producing plant.
• chief13n. The leader or head of a tribe, organisation, business unit, or other...
• chiff16n. The characteristic sound made as part of the attack of certain notes on...
• chuff16adj. Surly; annoyed; displeased; disgruntled.
• cleft10n. An opening, fissure, or V-shaped indentation made by or as if by...
• cliff13n. A vertical (or nearly vertical) rock face.
• clift10n. A cliff.
• comfy15adj. Comfortable.
• craft10n. Ability, skillfulness, especially skill in making plans and carrying...
• croft10n. An enclosed piece of land, usually small and arable and used for...
• cruft10n. Anything that is old or of inferior quality.

D

• daffy15adj. Somewhat mad or eccentric.
• decaf11adj. That has caffeine removed.
• defer9v. To delay or postpone.
• deffo12adj. Definite.
• defib11v. To defibrillate.
• defin9v. To remove the fins from.
• defog10v. To remove the moisture or fog from.
• deify12v. To make into a god.
• delft9n. A delf; a mine, quarry, pit or ditch.
• doofy12adj. Characteristic of a doof; stupid.
• draft9n. A current of air, usually coming into a room or vehicle.
• drift9n. Anything driven at random.
• dwarf12n. Any member of a race of beings from (especially Scandinavian and other...

E

• edify12v. To instruct or improve morally or intellectually.
• efter8n. A thief who frequents theaters.
• elfen8adj. Belonging to, or relating to, elves.
• elfin8n. An elf; an inhabitant of fairy-land.
• endif9n. A directive, in several programming languages, that marks the end of an...

F

• fabby15adj. Fabulous, very good, excellent.
• fable10n. A fictitious narrative intended to enforce some useful truth or...
• faced11adj. Having a specified type or number of faces.
• facer10n. An unexpected and stunning blow or defeat.
• facet10n. Any one of the flat surfaces cut into a gem.
• facon10n. Vegetarian bacon; meat-free imitation bacon, generally made with tofu...
• faddy13adj. Having characteristics of a fad.
• faded10adj. That has lost some of its former vividness and colour.
• fader9n. A device used to raise and lower sound volume.
• faena8n. A series of passes performed by a matador with a muleta or a sword...
• faint8adj. Lacking strength; weak; languid; inclined to lose consciousness.
• fairs8interj. Fair enough; fair's fair.
• fairy11n. A mythical being of human form with magical powers, known in many sizes...
• faith11n. A trust or confidence in the intentions or abilities of a person...
• faker12n. One who fakes something.
• fakey15adj. Fake.
• fakie12n. The riding backwards of the board, in the opposite stance.
• fakir12n. A religious mendicant who owns no personal property.
• fallo8n. The dispositive portion of a court's ruling, coming at the end of the...
• falls8n. A waterfall.
• false8adj. Untrue, not factual, factually incorrect.
• faltu8adj. Useless; unnecessary; of no value or purpose.
• famed11adj. Having fame; famous or noted.
• famil10n. A free or low cost trip for travel agents or consultants, provided by a...
• fancy13n. The imagination.
• fango9n. Mud from the thermal springs at Battaglia in Italy, used to treat...
• fanny11n. The buttocks; arguably the most nearly polite of several euphemisms.
• fanon8n. A vestment reserved only for the Pope for use during a pontifical Mass.
• fappy15adj. Overweight and fortunate with one's life.
• faqih20n. An expert in Islamic law.
• farad9n. In the International System of Units, the derived unit of electrical...
• farce10n. A style of humor marked by broad improbabilities with little regard to...
• farcy13n. The horse disease glanders, especially its cutaneous form.
• farer8n. One who fares or travels, a traveller, tripper.
• farre8adj. Early Modern spelling of far.
• farro8n. Emmer wheat (Triticum turgidum).
• farry11v. To farrow; to give birth to a litter of piglets.
• farse8n. A vernacular paraphrase inserted into Latin liturgy.
• farty11adj. Resembling or characteristic of a fart; flatulent.
• fasel8v. To unravel or become frayed.
• fashy14adj. Espousing, characteristic of, or relating to fascism.
• fasti8n. The calendar, which gave the days for festivals, courts, etc....
• fatal8adj. Causing death or destruction.
• fated9adj. Foreordained, predetermined, established in advance by fate.
• fatha11n. In Arabic script, the vowel point for a, appearing as a diagonal line...
• fathe11n. The diacritical mark ـَ (-a) used in the Persian script to denote the...
• fatty11adj. Containing, composed of, or consisting of fat.
• fatwa11n. A formal legal decree, opinion, or ruling issued by a mufti or other...
• faugh12interj. An exclamation of contempt, or of disgust, especially for a smell.
• fault8n. Culpability; the responsibility for a blameworthy event.
• fauna8n. Animals considered as a group; especially those of a particular...
• fauve11n. Synonym of fauvist.
• favel11adj. Yellow or dun in colour.
• favor11n. A kind or helpful deed; an instance of voluntarily assisting (someone).
• fawad12v. To come.
• faxed16adj. Having a head of hair; hairy.
• fayre11n. A fair, a market.
• fazed18adj. Hesitant, frightened; daunted, disconcerted; perturbed, put off.
• feast8n. A holiday, festival, especially a religious one.
• fecal10adj. Of or relating to feces.
• feces10n. Digested waste material (typically solid or semi-solid) discharged from...
• feels8n. Feelings; emotions; especially, tender sentiment.
• feely11adj. Soft; smooth; velvety.
• feign9v. To make a false show or pretence of; to counterfeit or simulate.
• feint8n. A movement made to confuse an opponent; a dummy.
• feist8n. A small, snappy, belligerent mixed-breed dog; a feist dog.
• felid9n. Any member of the cat family (Felidae).
• fella8n. Used as a general intensifier; a pfella.
• felly11n. The rim of a wooden wheel, supported by the spokes.
• felon8adj. Of a person or animal, their actions, thoughts, etc.: brutal, cruel...
• felty11adj. Of, pertaining to, or similar to felt.
• femme12n. A woman; a wife; (now chiefly Canada, US) a young woman or girl.
• femmy15adj. Resembling or characteristic of a femme (a feminine gay man or lesbian).
• femur10n. A thighbone.
• fenby13n. A feminine non-binary person.
• fence10n. A thin artificial barrier that separates two pieces of land or forms a...
• fenny11adj. Characteristic of or resembling a fen (“characteristically alkaline...
• fenty11n. Fentanyl.
• feral8adj. Wild; untamed.
• feria8n. A weekday on a Church calendar on which no feast is observed.
• fermi10n. An obsolete name of the unit of length equal to one femtometre (10⁻¹⁵...
• ferny11adj. Of or pertaining to ferns.
• ferry11v. To carry; transport; convey.
• festa8n. A public holiday or feast day in Italy, Portugal, etc.
• festy11adj. Disgusting.
• fetal8adj. Pertaining to, or connected with, a fetus.
• fetch13v. To retrieve; to bear towards; to go and get.
• feted9adj. Honoured; celebrated.
• fetid9adj. Foul-smelling, stinking.
• fetti8n. Money.
• fetty11n. Fentanyl.
• fetus8n. An unborn or unhatched vertebrate showing signs of the mature animal.
• fever11n. A higher than normal body temperature of a person (or, generally, a...
• fewer11det. Less; a smaller amount of something non-integral commonly expressed as...
• fiber10n. A single elongated piece of a given material, roughly round in...
• fibre10n. A single piece of a given material, elongated and roughly round in...
• fibro10n. Fibro-cement; a building material consisting of asbestos fibres and...
• fiche13n. A microfiche.
• ficus10n. Any plant belonging to the genus Ficus, including the rubber plant, of...
• fideo9n. Noodles or vermicelli, or a dish or soup containing such.
• field9n. A land area free of woodland, cities, and towns; an area of open...
• fiend9n. A devil or demon; a malignant or diabolical being; an evil spirit.
• fiery11adj. Of or relating to fire.
• fifer11n. One who plays on a fife.
• fifth14adj. The ordinal form of the number five.
• fifty14n. A banknote or coin with a denomination of 50.
• figgy13adj. Of or like figs.
• fight12v. To engage in combat with; to oppose physically, to contest with.
• filar8adj. Having a thread across the field of view.
• filch13v. To illegally take possession of (something, especially items of low...
• filer8n. One who files something.
• filin8n. A genre that emerged in late 1940s in Havana, influenced by the melodic...
• filly11n. A young female horse.
• filmi10n. Music written especially for Bollywood films.
• filmy13adj. Resembling or made of a thin film; gauzy.
• filth11n. Dirt; foul matter; that which soils or defiles.
• filum10n. A filamentous anatomical structure.
• final8n. A final examination; a test or examination given at the end of a term...
• finca10n. A country estate, farm or ranch in Spain or Hispanic America.
• finch13n. Any Eurasian goldfinch (of species Carduelis carduelis, syn. Fringilla...
• finer8n. One who fines or purifies.
• fines8n. Fine particles, whether or not airborne.
• finis8n. Of a book or other work: the end.
• finna8v. A modal used to express a desire or future action.
• finny11adj. Having one or more fins.
• finos8n. Second-best wool from Merino sheep.
• finta8n. A yearly synagogue membership fee (in Western Sephardic communities).
• fiori8n. A form of decorative extruded pasta.
• fired9adj. Dismissed, terminated from employment.
• firer8n. A person who fires a weapon; a shooter.
• firey11n. A firefighter.
• firms10n. The principal rafters of a roof, especially a pair of rafters taken...
• first8adj. Preceding all others of a series or kind; the ordinal of one; earliest.
• firth11n. An arm or inlet of the sea; a river estuary.
• fishy14adj. Of, from, or similar to fish.
• fisty11adj. Involving the fists; pugilistic.
• fitba10n. Football.
• fitch13n. A polecat, such as the European polecat (Mustela putorius), the striped...
• fitly11adv. In a fit manner.
• fitna8n. Temptation.
• fitra8n. The original innocent state of humans after being created by Allah.
• fitty11adv. Properly; fitly.
• fiver11n. A banknote with a value of five units of currency.
• fives11n. A ball game, somewhat like tennis, played against a wall.
• fixed16adj. Attached; affixed.
• fixer15n. A chemical (sodium thiosulfate) used in photographic development that...
• fixie15n. A fixed-gear bicycle.
• fizzy29adj. Containing bubbles.
• fjeld16n. A rocky, barren plateau, especially in Scandinavia.
• fjord16n. A long, narrow, deep inlet between cliffs.
• fking13adj. Censored spelling of fucking.
• flack14v. To hang loosely; flag.
• flail8n. A tool used for threshing, consisting of a long handle (handstock) with...
• flair8n. A natural or innate talent or aptitude.
• flake12n. A loose filmy mass or a thin chiplike layer of anything.
• flaky15adj. Consisting of flakes or of small, loose masses; lying, or cleaving off...
• flame10n. The visible part of fire; a stream of burning vapour or gas, emitting...
• flank12v. To attack the flank(s) of.
• flaps10n. A disease in the mouths of horses involving inflammation in the cheeks...
• flare8n. A sudden bright light.
• flash11v. To cause to shine briefly or intermittently.
• flask12n. A narrow-necked vessel of metal or glass, used for various purposes; as...
• flava11n. Flavor.
• fleck14n. A flake.
• fleed9n. The internal fat of a pig before it is melted into lard.
• fleer8n. One who flees.
• fleet8n. A group of vessels or vehicles, generally operating in a unified way or...
• flesh11n. The soft tissue of the body, especially muscle and fat.
• fleur8n. Fleur-de-lis.
• flexo15n. Flexography.
• flexy18adj. Implying or indicating an ability, capacity, or tendency to flex...
• flick14n. A short, quick movement, especially a brush, sweep, or flip.
• flies8n. The open area above a stage where scenery and equipment may be hung.
• fling9n. An act of throwing, often violently.
• flint8n. A hard, fine-grained quartz that fractures conchoidally and generates...
• flirt8n. A sudden jerk; a quick throw or cast; a darting motion.
• flite8n. A quarrel, dispute, wrangling.
• float8v. To be supported by a fluid of greater density (than the object).
• flock14n. A large number of animals associated together in a group; commonly used...
• flood9n. An overflow of a large amount of water (usually disastrous) from a lake...
• floof11v. To make something fluffy; to fluff (up).
• floop10v. To flop and droop, as a sign of aging or poor physical condition.
• floor8n. The interior bottom or surface of a house or building; the supporting...
• flops10n. Flop per second; floating-point operation per second.
• flora8n. Plants considered as a group, especially those of a particular country...
• flory11adj. Decorated with fleurs-de-lis projecting from it.
• floss8n. A thread used to clean the gaps between the teeth.
• flota8n. A fleet, especially a fleet of Spanish ships which formerly sailed...
• flour8n. Powder obtained by grinding or milling cereal grains, especially wheat...
• flout8v. To express contempt for (laws, rules, etc.) by word or action.
• flown11adj. Suspended in the flies.
• flowy14adj. Flowing; able to flow.
• flues8n. Bits of down.
• fluff14n. Anything light, soft or fuzzy, especially fur, hair, feathers.
• fluid9n. Any substance which can flow with relative ease, tends to assume the...
• fluke12n. A lucky or improbable occurrence that could probably never be repeated.
• flume10n. A ravine or gorge, usually one with water running through.
• flump12interj. A sound of something moving or falling heavily, or with a dull sound.
• flunk12v. Of a student, to fail a class; to not pass.
• fluor8n. The mineral fluorite.
• flush11n. A group of birds that have suddenly started up from undergrowth, trees...
• flute8n. A woodwind instrument consisting of a tube with a row of holes that...
• flyby16n. A flight past a celestial object in order to make observations.
• flyer11n. That which flies, as a bird or insect.
• fnord9n. A metasyntactic variable, similar to foo and bar.
• foamy13adj. Full of foam.
• focal10adj. Belonging to, concerning, or located at a focus (definite location).
• focus10n. A point at which reflected or refracted rays of light converge.
• foehn11n. A warm dry wind blowing down the north sides of the Alps, especially in...
• fogey12n. A dull person (especially an old man) who is behind the times, holding...
• foggy13adj. Obscured by mist or fog; unclear; hazy.
• fogle9n. A handkerchief.
• foist8v. To introduce or insert surreptitiously or without warrant.
• foldy12adj. Having or characterized by folds.
• foley11n. The creation of sound effects, and their addition to film and TV images.
• folic10adj. Of or relating to foliage; pteroylglutamic, as in folic acid.
• folio8n. A leaf of a book or manuscript.
• folks12n. The members of one's immediate family, especially one's parents.
• folky15adj. Having the character of folk music.
• folly11n. Foolishness that results from a lack of foresight or lack of...
• fomes10n. Morbid matter created by a disease.
• fonda9n. An inn or hotel in a Spanish-speaking country.
• fonds9n. The entire collection of the records originating from the same creator...
• fondu9n. The graded shift from one color into another.
• foody12adj. Eatable; fit for food or consumption.
• foose8n. The houseleek.
• foots8n. The settlings of oil, molasses, etc., at the bottom of a barrel or...
• footy11n. Football (association football) (soccer in US, Canada, Australia, New...
• foram10n. A foraminifer.
• foray11n. A sudden or irregular incursion in border warfare; hence, any irregular...
• forby13adj. Uncommon; out of the ordinary; extraordinary; superior.
• force10n. Ability to influence; strength or energy of body or mind; active power...
• fordo9v. To kill, destroy.
• forel8n. A kind of coarse parchment for book covers; a forrill.
• forex15n. Syllabic abbreviation of foreign exchange.
• forge9n. A furnace or hearth where metals are heated prior to hammering them...
• forgo9v. To do without (something enjoyable); to relinquish.
• forky15adj. Synonym of forked.
• forma10n. Synonym of form (“the component of a thing that determines its kind”).
• forte8n. A strength or talent; a strong point.
• forth11adv. Forward in time, place or degree.
• forty11n. A bottle (of beer) containing forty fluid ounces.
• forum10n. A place for discussion.
• fossa8n. A pit, groove, cavity, or depression.
• fosse8n. A ditch or moat.
• found9n. Food and lodging; board.
• fount8n. That from which something proceeds; an origin, a source.
• fours8n. A pair of fours.
• fouse8v. To tumble, disarrange, rumple.
• fouta8n. A piece of thin patterned cotton or linen fabric used like a bathrobe...
• fouth11n. Abundance; plenty.
• fovea11n. A slight depression or pit in a bone or organ.
• fower11n. The digit 4 in the NATO phonetic alphabet.
• foxed16adj. Of paper, having yellowish-brown stains (foxing).
• foxen15adj. Of or pertaining to foxes.
• foxie15n. A fox terrier.
• foyer11n. Such a space used in a hotel, theater, etc.
• frack14v. To employ hydraulic fracturing (fracking).
• frail8adj. Easily broken physically; not firm or durable; liable to fail and...
• frain8v. To ask, inquire.
• frame10v. To fit, as for a specific end or purpose; make suitable or comfortable...
• franc10n. Any of several units of currency.
• frank12adj. Honest, especially in a manner that seems slightly blunt; candid; not...
• frass8n. The droppings or excrement of insect larvae.
• frate8n. A friar.
• fraud9n. The crime of stealing or otherwise illegally obtaining money by use of...
• freak12n. Someone or something that is markedly unusual or unpredictable.
• freck14n. Synonym of freckle (“a small brownish or reddish pigmentation spot on...
• freer8n. One who frees.
• freke12n. A brave man, a warrior, a man-at-arms.
• fremd11adj. Strange, unusual, out of the ordinary; unfamiliar.
• freon8n. Any of several nonflammable refrigerants based on halogenated...
• fresh11adj. Newly produced or obtained; recent.
• fress8v. To eat without restraint; eat heartily.
• frevo11n. Any of a wide range of music and dance styles originating from Recife...
• friar8n. A member of a mendicant Christian order such as the Augustinians...
• fried9adj. Cooked by frying.
• frill8n. A strip of pleated fabric or paper used as decoration or trim.
• frisk12n. A little playful skip or leap; a brisk and lively movement.
• frist8n. Time allotted for repayment; a term (in which a debt is to be repaid)...
• frita8n. A kind of hamburger of Cuban origin, consisting of a seasoned ground...
• frith11n. A forest or wood; woodland generally.
• fritz17n. The state of being defective.
• frizz26v. Of hair, to form into a mass of tight curls.
• frock14n. A dress, a piece of clothing, which consists of a skirt and a cover for...
• frolf11n. Synonym of disc golf.
• frond9n. The leaf of a fern, especially a compound leaf.
• frons8n. In vertebrates, especially mammals, the forehead; the part of the...
• front8n. The foremost side of something or the end that faces the direction it...
• frood9adj. Shrewd; sagacious; wary; cautious.
• froot8n. A boot (storage compartment) located at the front rather than the rear...
• frosh11n. A frog.
• frost8n. A cover of minute ice crystals on objects that are exposed to the air....
• froth11n. Foam.
• frown11n. A wrinkling of the forehead with the eyebrows brought together...
• fruit8n. A product of fertilization in a plant, specifically.
• frump12n. A frumpy person, somebody who is unattractive, drab or dowdy.
• frunk12n. A trunk (boot, storage compartment) located at the front rather than...
• frush11v. To straighten up (the feathers on an arrow).
• fryer11n. A machine or container for frying food.
• fucus10n. Any alga of the genus Fucus.
• fudge10n. A type of very sweet candy or confection, usually made from sugar...
• fudgy13adj. Resembling fudge, as in flavor or texture.
• fuero8n. A code; a charter; a grant of privileges.
• fugal9adj. Relating to a fugue.
• fugit9n. The optimal date to exercise an American option (or a Bermudan option).
• fugue9n. A contrapuntal piece of music wherein a particular melody is played in...
• fulla8n. Man, especially one of indigenous descent.
• fully11adv. In a full manner; without lack or defect; completely, entirely.
• fumed11adj. Of wood, treated with ammonia fumes to darken its colour and enhance...
• funch13n. A sexual encounter at lunchtime.
• funct10adj. In use.
• funda9n. Basics or fundamentals, considered as a unit.
• fundi9n. A master of a particular skill; an expert.
• funds9n. Financial resources.
• fungi9n. Spongy, abnormal growth, as granulation tissue formed in a wound.
• fungo9n. A fielding practice drill where a person hits fly balls intended to be...
• funky15adj. Offbeat, unconventional or eccentric.
• funny11adj. Amusing; humorous; comical.
• furan8n. Any of a class of aromatic heterocyclic compounds containing a ring of...
• furca10n. A forked structure, a fork-like part.
• furin8n. A protease found in certain animal cells.
• furor8n. A general uproar or commotion.
• furry11adj. Covered with fur, or with something resembling fur.
• furth11prep. Out or outside.
• furze17n. A thorny evergreen shrub, with yellow flowers, Ulex gen. et spp., of...
• fused9adj. Joined together by fusing.
• fusee8n. Synonym of fusil, a light musket or firelock.
• fuser8n. The part of a laser printer that melts the toner onto the medium.
• fusil8n. A bearing of a rhomboidal figure, originally representing a spindle in...
• fusor8n. A coin melter.
• fussy11adj. Anxious or particular about petty details; hard to please.
• fusty11adj. Moldy or musty.
• futch13adj. Exhibiting qualities of both femme and butch identities.
• futon8n. A thin mattress of tufted cotton or similar material, placed on a floor...
• futur8n. A fiancé.
• fuzed18adj. Being equipped with a fuze.
• fuzzy29adj. Covered with fuzz or a large number of tiny loose fibres like a carpet...

G

• gaffa12n. Gaffer tape.
• gaffe12n. A foolish and embarrassing error, especially one made in public; a...
• gifty12adj. Suited to being given as a gift.

Questions about these words

How many five-letter words with F are there?

Word.ws lists 528 five-letter words with F, plus 354 rare ones.

What are common five-letter words with F?

after, first, found, often, final, front, field and fight.

Which of the five-letter words with F has the highest letter score?

fuzzy scores 29 points with the standard letter tile values.

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