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5-letter words ending in BA

There are 11 5-letter words ending in BA in the standard word-game list. The most common are samba, scuba, rumba, mamba, ameba, ceiba. Every five-letter word here is a valid Wordle guess, and the commonest ones are the likeliest answers.

Most common, with meanings

WordMeaningPoints
sambalarge west African tree having large palmately lobed leaves and axillary cymose panicles of small white…9
scubaa device (trade name Aqua-Lung) that lets divers breathe under water; scuba is an acronym for self-contained…9
rumbasyncopated music in duple time for dancing the rumba9
mambaarboreal snake of central and southern Africa whose bite is often fatal11
amebanaked freshwater or marine or parasitic protozoa that form temporary pseudopods for feeding and locomotion9
ceibaAny tree of the genus Ceiba, the best-known of which is Ceiba pentandra.9
gambaviol that is the bass member of the viol family with approximately the range of the cello10
glebafleshy spore-bearing inner mass of e.g. a puffball or stinkhorn8
limbaA large African tree, Terminalia superba, whose hard wood is used for furniture, table tennis paddles and…9
tsubaThe guard at the end of the grip of a sword.7
yerbaIlex paraguariensis, a species of holly native to southern South America; or the dried leaves and twigs of…10

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