5-letter words starting with S

Here are 1,540 5-letter words that begin with S, pulled from our 270,000-word dictionary. They're handy when you've locked the opening letter in Wordle, or when S is the only tile you can lead with on a Scrabble or Words With Friends board.

Each word shows its Scrabble and Words With Friends point values so you can spot the highest-scoring openers at a glance.

Because every entry is exactly five letters, you can type any of them into Wordle as a guess. (That doesn't mean a word has ever been the daily answer — it just means Wordle will accept it.)

Want to filter by the letters you already have? Try the Word Unscrambler or the Wordle Solver.