5 letter words starting with W
Every 5-letter word in the dictionary that opens with W — 296 of the 8,636 words of this length.
- Words
- 296
- Everyday
- 141in the size-ranked core
- Longest
- 5296 words tie
- Shortest
- 5296 words tie
- waded
- wades
- wafer
- wafts
- waged
- wager
- wages
- wagon
- waifs
- wails
- waist
- waits
- waive
- waked
- waken
- wakes
- walks
- walls
- waltz
- wands
- waned
- wanes
- wants
- wards
- warms
- warns
- warps
- warts
- wasps
- waste
- watch
- water
- watts
- waved
- waver
- waves
- waxed
- waxes
- weans
- wears
- weary
- weave
- wedge
- weeds
- weedy
- weeks
- weeps
- weest
- weigh
- weird
- welds
- wells
- welts
- whack
- whale
- wharf
- wheat
- wheel
- whens
- where
- whets
- which
- whiff
- while
- whims
- whine
- whips
- whirl
- whirs
- whisk
- white
- whole
- whoop
- whore
- whose
- wicks
- widen
- wider
- widow
- width
- wield
- wilds
- wills
- wilts
- wince
- winch
- winds
- windy
- wined
- wines
- wings
- winks
- wiped
- wiper
- wipes
- wired
- wires
- wiser
- wises
- wisps
- wispy
- witch
- witty
- wives
- woken
- wolfs
- woman
- wombs
- women
- woods
- woody
- wooed
- woofs
- wools
- words
- wordy
- works
- world
- worms
- worry
- worse
- worst
- worth
- would
- wound
- woven
- wowed
- wraps
- wrath
- wreak
- wreck
- wrens
- wrest
- wring
- wrist
- write
- writs
- wrong
- wrote
- wrung
- wryer
- wacko
- wacks
- wacky
- wader
- wadis
- wains
- waled
- wales
- wally
- wanly
- wares
- warty
- washy
- waugh
- waxen
- weals
- weber
- weens
- weeny
- weepy
- wefts
- weirs
- welch
- welly
- welsh
- wench
- wends
- wetly
- whams
- wheal
- whelk
- whelm
- whelp
- whigs
- whiny
- whist
- whits
- whops
- whorl
- wight
- wiled
- wiles
- willy
- wimps
- wimpy
- winos
- wised
- withe
- wived
- wodge
- wolds
- wonks
- wonky
- wooer
- woozy
- wormy
- wrack
- wroth
- wryly
- wurst
- wussy
- wacke
- waddy
- waffs
- wahoo
- waker
- waler
- wames
- waney
- wared
- waspy
- watap
- wauls
- wavey
- wawls
- waxer
- weald
- webby
- wedel
- wedgy
- weets
- wekas
- wests
- whamo
- whang
- whaps
- whaup
- wheen
- whews
- wheys
- whids
- whins
- whipt
- whish
- whity
- whomp
- whoof
- whort
- whoso
- whump
- widdy
- wides
- wifty
- wigan
- wiggy
- wilco
- winey
- wingy
- winze
- wirer
- wirra
- wisha
- wists
- witan
- wited
- wites
- withy
- wizen
- woads
- woald
- woful
- wonts
- woops
- woosh
- worts
- wrick
- wried
- wries
- wynds
- wynns
- wairs
- walla
- wamus
- warks
- wasts
- wauks
- wecht
- wenny
- whats
- wheep
- whirr
- whizz
- wifed
- wifes
- wiver
- wizes
- womby
- wooly
- wrang
- wrapt
- wrier
- wyled
- wyles
- wyted
- wytes
What is in this list
Every one of them has 5 letters.
141 of them — 48% — are in the everyday tier; the rest are filed as rarer.
Every one of them contains an W.
The one furthest down the tiers is wairs, filed in the unranked list.
Other openings at 5 letters
- A497
- B589
- C665
- D457
- E192
- F430
- G415
- H334
- I118
- J134
- K206
- L401
- M444
- N200
- O181
- P565
- Q53
- R419
- S1,056
- T548
- U117
- V161
- W296
- X13
- Y94
- Z51
W at other lengths, and 5 letters by ending
- 3 letters38
- 4 letters166
- 6 letters453
- 7 letters687
- 8 letters729
- 9 letters507
- 10 letters328
- 11 letters227
- 12 letters117
- 13 letters65
- 14 letters43
- 15 letters22
- ends A356
- ends B35
- ends C97
- ends D582
- ends E931
- ends F53
- ends G88
- ends H255
- ends I142
- ends K182
- ends L345
- ends M125
Ordered everyday words first, then alphabetical inside each group — the same rule on every list here. At most 300 are printed on one page.