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5-letter words starting with WE
There are 37 5-letter words starting with WE in the standard word-game list. The most common are weird, weigh, weary, weeds, welsh, weave. 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 |
|---|---|---|
| weird | fate personified; any one of the three Weird Sisters | 9 |
| weigh | have a certain weight | 12 |
| weary | physically and mentally fatigued | 11 |
| weeds | a black garment (dress) worn by a widow as a sign of mourning | 9 |
| welsh | of or relating to or characteristic of Wales or its people or their language | 11 |
| weave | pattern of weaving or structure of a fabric | 11 |
| wench | informal terms for a (young) woman | 13 |
| wedge | any shape that is triangular in cross section | 10 |
| weber | a unit of magnetic flux equal to 100,000,000 maxwells | 10 |
| welch | cheat by avoiding payment of a gambling debt | 13 |
| weepy | liable to weep easily | 13 |
| webby | having open interstices or resembling a web | 15 |
| weeny | (used informally) little or tiny | 11 |
| weald | an area of open or forested country | 9 |
| wecht | A form of sieve used to winnow grain; the weight of its contents. | 13 |
| wedel | ski, alternating directions | 9 |
| wedgy | Resembling a wedge, especially in shape | 13 |
| weedy | abounding with or resembling weeds | 12 |
| welly | Wellington boot. | 11 |
| wenny | Covered with wens. | 11 |
| wetly | In a wet manner. | 11 |