5 letter words starting with G
There are 500 5 letter words starting with g in this list, most common first. Filter by letters.
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The most-used 5 letter words starting with g, and what they mean
These are the 14 that come up most often in written English, so they are the ones worth knowing first.
- great
- adjective(informal) Very good; excellent; wonderful; fantastic.
- given
- nounA condition that is assumed to be true without further evaluation.
- group
- nounA number of things or persons being in some relation to one another.
- going
- verb(in combination) Attending or visiting (a stated event, place, etc.) habitually or regularly.
- gives
- verb(ditransitive) To move, shift, provide something abstract or concrete to someone or something or somewhere.
- green
- nounThe color of grass and leaves; a primary additive color midway between yellow and blue which is evoked by light between roughly 495–570 nm.
- goods
- noun(business, economics) That which is produced, then traded, bought or sold, then finally consumed.
- glass
- noun(usually uncountable) An amorphous solid, often transparent substance, usually made by melting silica sand with various additives (for most purposes, a mixture…
- girls
- noun(slang, women's speech) A woman's breasts.
- guide
- nounSomeone who guides, especially someone hired to show people around a place or an institution and offer information and explanation, or to lead them through…
- goals
- adjective(Internet slang, also in compounds) Extremely admirable; worthy of being set as a goal and emulated.
- greek
- adjectiveOf or relating to Greece, its people, its language, or its culture.
- grand
- adjectiveOf a large size or extent; great.
- grant
- verb(ditransitive) To give (permission or wish).
Nouns, verbs and adjectives
Of the 500 words in this list, 433 can be used as a noun, including great, given, group, going, green. Plenty of words do more than one job: state is a noun, a verb and an adjective depending on how you use it, which is why these numbers add up to more than the list itself.
Using this for Wordle
Puzzle answers lean heavily on everyday words rather than obscure ones, and this list is sorted by exactly that: how often each word actually turns up in written English. So start at the top. On this list that means great, given, group, going, gives, green.
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How this list is built
The words come from the Datamuse language API, then get cleaned up, because the raw output is not much use on its own. Each word is checked against an English dictionary, with a frequency floor for anything not in it, so ordinary inflections survive while noise does not. Roman numerals, fragments and vowel-less abbreviations are stripped out.
What is left is ranked by how often each word actually appears in written English. That ordering is the point: it puts the words you might actually want at the top. The full method is on how we build these.
Common questions
How many 5 letter words starting with g are there?
This list holds 500, filtered to real dictionary words and ranked by how common they are. English has more if you count obscure and archaic ones, but they are little use to anybody.
Can a 5 letter word starting with G be a noun?
Yes. 433 of the 500 words on this list can be used as a noun. The breakdown above shows how many work as verbs, adjectives and adverbs too.
How are the words ordered?
By how often each word appears in written English, most common first, so the useful ones are at the top rather than buried under rarities. See how we build these.
Can I search inside the list?
Yes. The filter box narrows the list as you type, and where a list mixes lengths there are buttons to show only words of a given length.