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5-letter words starting with CLI
There are 10 5-letter words starting with CLI in the standard word-game list. The most common are climb, cliff, click, clink, cling, cline. 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 |
|---|---|---|
| climb | an upward slope or grade (as in a road) | 11 |
| cliff | a steep high face of rock | 13 |
| click | a short light metallic sound | 13 |
| clink | a short light metallic sound | 11 |
| cling | fruit (especially peach) whose flesh adheres strongly to the pit | 8 |
| cline | A gradation in a character or phenotype within a species or other group. | 7 |
| clift | A cliff. | 10 |
| clime | the weather in some location averaged over some long period of time | 9 |