5 Letter Words Ending in W

Common five-letter words that end in W

The 25 most used in spoken English (SUBTLEX-US), with a short meaning.

• throw 11/10 propel through the air
• allow 8/10 make it possible through a specific action or lack of action for something to happen
• threw 11/10
• screw 10/11 someone who guards prisoners
• below 10/12 in or to a place that is lower
• widow 12/12 a woman whose husband is dead especially one who has not remarried
• arrow 8/8 a mark to indicate a direction or relation
• straw 8/8 plant fiber used e.g. for making baskets and hats or as fodder
• elbow 10/12 hinge joint between the forearm and upper arm and the corresponding joint in the forelimb of a quadruped
• renew 8/9 reestablish on a new, usually improved, basis or make new or like new
• squaw 17/18 derogatory terms for an American Indian woman
• shrew 11/10 a scolding nagging bad-tempered woman
• aglow 9/11 softly bright or radiant
• nohow 11/11 in no manner
• askew 12/12 turned or twisted toward one side
• macaw 12/14 long-tailed brilliantly colored parrot of Central America and South America
• endow 9/10 give qualities or abilities to
• sinew 8/9 a cord or band of inelastic tissue connecting a muscle with its bony attachment
• bylaw 13/14 a rule adopted by an organization in order to regulate its own affairs and the behavior of its members
• pshaw 13/13
• papaw 12/14 small tree native to the eastern United States having oblong leaves and fleshy fruit
• miaow 10/11 the sound made by a cat (or any sound resembling this)
• strew 8/8 spread by scattering ("straw" is archaic)
• oxbow 17/18 the land inside an oxbow bend in a river
• vrouw 11/13

All 40 five-letter words that end in W

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