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5 Letter Words Starting With H

491 five-letter words start with H. Common words first, then every word from A to Z.

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Common 5-letter words that start with H

With their Scrabble points: the 16 most used that have a meaning, with a short one, then the rest, most used first.

  • hotel 8a public lodging
  • house 8a dwelling that serves as living quarters for one or more families
  • hours 8a period of sixty minutes
  • human 10characteristic of humanity
  • heart 8the locus of feelings and intuitions
  • homes 10where you live at a particular time
  • happy 15marked by joy
  • horse 8solid-hoofed herbivorous quadruped domesticated since prehistoric times
  • hands 9the (prehensile) extremity of the superior limb
  • heard 9to perceive by the ear
  • heavy 14having much weight
  • harry 11to pillage
  • hello 8an expression of greeting
  • helps 10to give assistance to
  • hills 8a local and well-defined elevation of the land
  • hairy 11covered with hair

All 491 words, A to Z

HA…HE…HI…HO…HU…HW…HY…

HW… (1)

Top score: HWYLS, 14 points. Meaning: an emotion that inspires impassioned eloquence

About these words

  • 491 of the 12,987 5-letter words start with H (4%).
  • 362 are good in NWL2023, 488 in Collins Scrabble Words and 333 in ENABLE. 92 are everyday words.
  • In Scrabble points, huzzy scores the most (29), then huzza (26), then hajji (22), then hafiz (20), then two words on 19.