5-Letter Words Starting With SW
There are 75 five-letter words starting with SW, including 25 common puzzle answers. A handy list for Wordle and other five-letter word games.
Popular 5-Letter Puzzle Words Starting With SW
Common puzzle answers are everyday words of the kind word puzzles choose as solutions, most common first. Plurals and rare words are valid guesses but rarely answers, so they're listed separately below.
- SWEET Having or denoting the characteristic taste of sugar
- SWEAR Utter obscenities or profanities
- SWORD A weapon with a long metal blade and a handle with a hand guard
- SWING A seat suspended by ropes or chains on which someone can swing back and forth
- SWIFT Moving very fast
- SWEAT Salty fluid secreted by sweat glands
- SWEEP Clean by moving a broom across a surface
- SWEPT Past tense of sweep; cleaned with a broom or brush
- SWORN Bound by or having made an oath
- SWAMP Low-lying wetland area with water and dense vegetation
- SWELL Increase in size, magnitude, number, or intensity
- SWIPE To strike or hit with a sweeping motion
More Common Puzzle Answers
- SWORE
- SWUNG
- SWINE
- SWARM
- SWOOP
- SWIRL
- SWAMI
- SWISH
- SWOON
- SWATH
- SWANK
- SWILL
- SWASH
Narrow These Words
Add what else you know. The TurnWord Advanced Finder opens with this list's letters already in place, where you can mark letters green, yellow or gray and sort by fewest words left.
Useful Pattern Information
- Most common last letter: S (23%), E (15%), T (11%)
- Most common additional vowel: A, in 40% of these words
- Letters that most often appear alongside: A, E, I, R, L
- Most have 1 vowel (63%)
- 41% contain a repeated letter
- 25 of the 75 are common puzzle answers (33%)
Other Valid Words
50 additional dictionary words start with SW — valid guesses, though rarely answers. Most common first.
- SWISS
- SWANS
- SWAPS
- SWEDE
- SWIMS
- SWAIN
- SWABS
- SWAMY
- SWAYS
- SWOLE
- SWIRE
- SWIZZ
- SWALE
- SWART
- SWATS
- SWAGS
- SWARD
- SWARE
- SWIGS
- SWANG
- SWINK
- SWAGE
- SWARF
- SWOLL
- SWITH
- SWEED
- SWAIL
- SWOTS
- SWALY
- SWIES
Show all 50 words All 50 words
- SWITS
- SWILE
- SWEES
- SWIVE
- SWACK
- SWADS
- SWEER
- SWEAL
- SWOUN
- SWOPS
- SWEYS
- SWELT
- SWAPT
- SWEEL
- SWOBS
- SWOPT
- SWEIR
- SWAYL
- SWERF
- SWOLN
Related Searches
Playing a word game?
Get your next guess from the Word Solver.
Generated from the TurnWord word database, the dictionary behind the Word Solver and Word Bot. Common puzzle answers are our curated answer list, the everyday words word puzzles tend to use as answers — not the official answer list of any game; every other word is a valid guess. Counts and statistics are computed from this list. Word database updated September 19, 2026.