5 Letter Words That Start With Q

40 words Words by letter Checked 9 Oct 2026

Here are all 40 5 letter words that start with Q in a standard word-game dictionary, sorted so the everyday words come first. Use the Wordle helper below to add letters you know, letters to leave out and a pattern, or scan the common words with their meanings.

Only 40 five-letter Q words appear here, and every one keeps the U right behind the Q. That makes Q a gift in Wordle: if Q is first, you can count on U in second place.

The list includes everyday words like "quick", "quiet" and "queen", plus rarer finds like "quirk", "quill" and "quark". "Queue" is the oddest of all, packing four vowels into five letters.

5-letter words starting with Q: 40
Most used: quite
Most common last letter: T 8 words

5 letter words starting with Q: Wordle helper

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Most common 5-letter words that start with Q

Ranked by how often the word appears in English text. "Type" is the word's main part of speech.

#	Word	Meaning	Type
1	quite	to a degree (not used with a negative)	adv.
2	quick	accomplished rapidly and without delay	adj.
3	queen	the only fertile female in a colony of social insects such as bees and ants and termites	noun
4	quiet	characterized by an absence or near absence of agitation or activity	adj.
5	quote	repeat a passage from	verb
6	quest	a search for an alternative that meets cognitive criteria	noun
7	queue	a line of people or vehicles waiting for something	noun
8	queer	beyond or deviating from the usual or expected	adj.
9	query	pose a question	verb
10	quota	a prescribed number	noun
11	quasi	having some resemblance	adj.
12	quake	shaking and vibration at the surface of the earth resulting from underground movement along a fault plane of...	noun
13	quits	put an end to a state or an activity	verb
14	quilt	bedding made of two layers of cloth filled with stuffing and stitched together	noun
15	quail	draw back, as with fear or pain	verb
16	quirk	a strange attitude or habit	noun
17	quill	pen made from a bird's feather	noun
18	quack	an untrained person who pretends to be a physician and who dispenses medical advice	noun
19	quark	(physics) hypothetical truly fundamental particle in mesons and baryons	noun
20	quart	a United States liquid unit equal to 32 fluid ounces; four quarts equal one gallon	noun
21	quell	suppress or crush completely	verb
22	quads	one of four children born at the same time from the same pregnancy	noun
23	quash	put down by force or intimidation	verb
24	quint	the cardinal number that is the sum of four and one	noun
25	quips	a witty saying	noun
26	quant	no short meaning listed
27	quays	wharf usually built parallel to the shoreline	noun
28	quire	a quantity of paper; 24 or 25 sheets	noun
29	quoth	no short meaning listed
30	quiff	a prominent forelock (especially one brushed upward from the forehead)	noun
31	quins	one of five children born at the same time from the same pregnancy	noun
32	qualm	uneasiness about the fitness of an action	noun
33	quids	the basic unit of money in Great Britain and Northern Ireland; equal to 100 pence	noun
34	quaff	a hearty draft	noun
35	quale	no short meaning listed
36	quare	no short meaning listed
37	quoin	expandable metal or wooden wedge used by printers to lock up a form within a chase	noun
38	quern	a primitive stone mill for grinding corn by hand	noun
39	quirt	whip with a leather thong at the end	noun
40	quoit	game equipment consisting of a ring of iron or circle of rope used in playing the game of quoits	noun