5 Letter Words Ending in A

Common five-letter words that end in A

The 50 most used in spoken English (SUBTLEX-US), with a short meaning.

• extra 12/12 more than is needed, desired, or required
• pizza 25/26 Italian open pie made of thin bread dough spread with a spiced mixture of e.g. tomato sauce and cheese
• fella 8/10 a boy or man
• laura 5/7
• china 10/11 a communist nation that covers a vast territory in eastern Asia
• maria 7/8 a dark region of considerable extent on the surface of the moon
• media 8/9
• donna 6/8 an Italian woman of rank
• drama 8/9 a dramatic work intended for performance by actors on a stage
• opera 7/8 a drama set to music
• vodka 13/14 unaged colorless liquor originating in Russia
• delta 6/7 a low triangular area of alluvial deposits where a river divides before entering a larger body of water
• alpha 10/11 the 1st letter of the Greek alphabet
• momma 11/14 informal terms for a mother
• plaza 16/18 a public square with room for pedestrians
• erica 7/8 any plant of the genus Erica
• cocoa 9/11 a beverage made from cocoa powder and milk and sugar
• mafia 10/11 a crime syndicate in the United States
• villa 8/11 Mexican revolutionary leader (1877-1923)
• pasta 7/8 a dish that contains pasta as its main ingredient
• arena 5/6 a particular environment or walk of life
• gamma 10/13 the 3rd letter of the Greek alphabet
• karma 11/12 (Hinduism and Buddhism) the effects of a person's actions that determine his destiny in his next incarnation
• cobra 9/11 venomous Asiatic and African elapid snakes that can expand the skin of the neck into a hood
• mamma 11/14 informal terms for a mother
• viola 8/10 any of the numerous plants of the genus Viola
• aloha 8/8 an acknowledgment that can be used to say hello or goodbye (aloha is Hawaiian and ciao is Italian)
• costa 7/8 a riblike part of a plant or animal (such as a middle rib of a leaf or a thickened vein of an insect wing)
• vista 8/9 the visual percept of a region
• ninja 12/16 a member of the ninja who were trained in martial arts and hired for espionage or sabotage or assassinations
• voila 8/10
• zebra 16/17 any of several fleet black-and-white striped African equines
• polka 11/13 music performed for dancing the polka
• flora 8/9 all the plant life in a particular region or period
• salsa 5/6 spicy sauce of tomatoes and onions and chili peppers to accompany Mexican foods
• panda 8/10 large black-and-white herbivorous mammal of bamboo forests of China and Tibet
• quota 14/15 a prescribed number
• prima 9/11 used primarily as eating apples
• tiara 5/5 a jeweled headdress worn by women on formal occasions
• mecca 11/14 joint capital (with Riyadh) of Saudi Arabia
• moira 7/8
• theta 8/7 the 8th letter of the Greek alphabet
• scuba 9/12 a device (trade name Aqua-Lung) that lets divers breathe under water
• aorta 5/5 the large trunk artery that carries blood from the left ventricle of the heart to branch arteries
• omega 8/10 the ending of a series or sequence
• enema 7/9 an injection of a liquid through the anus to stimulate evacuation
• hyena 11/10 doglike nocturnal mammal of Africa and southern Asia that feeds chiefly on carrion
• llama 7/10 wild or domesticated South American cud-chewing animal related to camels but smaller and lacking a hump
• aroma 7/8 any property detected by the olfactory system
• sauna 5/7 a Finnish steam bath

All 355 five-letter words that end in A

Numbers are Scrabble points, then Words With Friends points.