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5-letter words starting with AB
There are 36 5-letter words starting with AB in the standard word-game list. The most common are about, above, abuse, abort, abbey, abyss. Every five-letter word here is a valid Wordle guess, and the commonest ones are the likeliest answers.
Most common, with meanings
| Word | Meaning | Points |
|---|---|---|
| about | on the move | 7 |
| above | appearing earlier in the same text | 10 |
| abuse | cruel or inhumane treatment | 7 |
| abort | the act of terminating a project or procedure before it is completed | 7 |
| abbey | a church associated with a monastery or convent | 12 |
| abyss | a bottomless gulf or pit; any unfathomable (or apparently unfathomable) cavity or chasm or void extending… | 10 |
| abide | dwell | 8 |
| abbot | the superior of an abbey of monks | 9 |
| abode | any address at which you dwell more than temporarily | 8 |
| aback | having the wind against the forward side of the sails | 13 |
| abhor | find repugnant | 10 |
| abate | make less active or intense | 7 |
| abaca | a kind of hemp obtained from the abaca plant in the Philippines | 9 |
| abaft | at or near or toward the stern of a ship or tail of an airplane | 10 |
| abamp | a unit of current equal to 10 amperes | 11 |
| abase | cause to feel shame; hurt the pride of | 7 |
| abash | cause to be embarrassed; cause to feel self-conscious | 10 |
| abeam | at right angles to the length of a ship or airplane | 9 |
| abele | a poplar that is widely cultivated in the United States; has white bark and leaves with whitish undersurfaces | 7 |
| abmho | A unit of measurement (109 mhos) in the centimeter-gram-second scale used to measure conductance | 12 |
| abohm | a unit of resistance equal to a billionth of an ohm | 12 |
| aboil | In a boil; boiling. | 7 |
| aboma | Any of the large South American serpents from the genus Boa or related genera. | 9 |
| aboon | Above. | 7 |
| abuzz | noisy like the sound of a bee | 25 |
| abysm | a bottomless gulf or pit; any unfathomable (or apparently unfathomable) cavity or chasm or void extending… | 12 |