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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

WordMeaningPoints
climban upward slope or grade (as in a road)11
cliffa steep high face of rock13
clicka short light metallic sound13
clinka short light metallic sound11
clingfruit (especially peach) whose flesh adheres strongly to the pit8
clineA gradation in a character or phenotype within a species or other group.7
cliftA cliff.10
climethe weather in some location averaged over some long period of time9

All 10 words