5 Letter Words Starting With WO (56 Words)

Common 5-letter words that start with WO

With their Scrabble points and, for the first 13, a short meaning, most used first.

world★9the earth and all its inhabitants
women★10an adult female person (as opposed to a man)
works★12to exert one's powers of body or mind for some purpose
words★9a unit of language that native speakers can identify
woman★10an adult human female
worth★11worthy of being treated in a particular way
worst★8having undesirable or negative qualities
worse★8having undesirable or negative qualities
woods★9the trees and other plants in a large densely wooded area
worry★11to feel anxious and uneasy about something
wound★9an injury to living tissue (especially an injury involving a cut or break in the skin)
woven★11to form by interlacing threads
worms★10any of numerous relatively small elongated soft-bodied animals especially of the phyla…

56 of the 12,982 5-letter words start with WO (0.4%).
43 are good in NWL2023, 56 in Collins Scrabble Words, 43 in WOW24 and 40 in the Words With Friends list. 14 are everyday words.
In Scrabble points, woozy scores the most (20), then wootz (17), then wokka (16), then four words on 15.