Words That Start With

F

English words beginning with “F” — sorted by frequency

✦194 words found

🟩29 Wordle words

🟩 5-Letter Words Starting With F

29 Wordle words

These are valid 5-letter words — exactly the format Wordle uses every day.

FORCE FACET FOCUS FOLLY FORTE FOYER FORUM FETID FERAL FOLIO FETCH FEINT FEIGN FORAY FORGO FORGE FOSSA FENCE FOGGY FETOR FEAST FOIST FELON FEMME FOCAL FETED FOUND FOEHN FOUNT

🎯 4-Letter Words Starting With F

20 words

Useful for Scrabble, crossword fill-ins, and short word puzzles.

FOND FEAR FORM FACE FOUL FEEL FOIL FOOL FETE FERE FOWL FOLD FELL FOXY FORE FOOT FELT FEAL FORK FOLK

All Words Starting With F

194 words — most common first

Sorted by how frequently each word appears in written English.

Word	Letters	Syllables	Type	Definition
fervid	6	2		(figurative) lively, spirited, or frenzied due to being ardent, passionate, and zealous.
fervent	7	2		Having or showing emotional warmth, fervor, and/or passion.
fervor	6	2	noun	(American spelling) An intense, heated emotion; passion, ardor.
forlorn	7	2	noun	Pitifully sad, wretched, miserable; lonely, especially from feeling abandoned, deserted, forsaken.
facilitate	10	4	verb	To make easy or easier.
facile	6	2		(now usually derogatory) Easy; contemptibly easy.
fortitude	9	3	noun	Mental or emotional strength that enables courage in the face of adversity.
felicity	8	4	noun	(uncountable) Happiness; (countable) an instance of this.
fervently	9	3		In a fervent manner.
feckless	8	2		Without skill, ineffective, incompetent.
feeble	6	2	verb	Deficient in physical strength.
formidable	10	4		Causing fear, dread, awe, or discouragement as a result of size, strength, or some other impressive feature; commanding respect; causing wonder or astonishment.
forsaken	8	3		Deserted; abandoned.
foremost	8	2	noun	Of the highest rank or position; of the greatest importance; of the highest priority.
felicitous	10	4		Appropriate, apt, fitting.
forthright	10	2	noun	Straightforward; not evasive; candid and direct.
facetious	9	3		Treating serious issues with (often deliberately) inappropriate humour; flippant.
feasible	8	3		Able to be done in practice.
fellowship	10	3	noun	A company of people that share the same interest or aim.
force	5	1	noun	Ability to influence; strength or energy of body or mind; active power; vigour; might; capacity of exercising an influence or producing an effect.
facet	5	2	noun	Any one of the flat surfaces cut into a gem.
fond	4	1	noun	Having a liking or affection (for). [(chiefly) with of]
focus	5	2	noun	(uncountable) Concentration of attention.
fear	4	1	noun	(uncountable) A strong, unpleasant emotion or feeling caused by actual or perceived danger or threat.
feculent	8	3		Dirty with faeces or other impurities
form	4	1	noun	(heading, physical) To do with shape.
fellow	6	2	noun	(chiefly in the plural, also figuratively) A companion; a comrade.
folly	5	2	noun	Foolishness that results from a lack of foresight or lack of practicality.
foliage	7	2	noun	The leaves of plants.
forsake	7	2	verb	(transitive) To abandon, to give up, to leave (permanently), to renounce (someone or something).
fervidly	8	3		In a fervid manner.
foundation	10	3	noun	That upon which anything is founded; that on which anything stands, and by which it is supported; the lowest and supporting layer of a superstructure; underbuilding.
foreign	7	2	noun	Located outside a country or place, especially one's own.
forte	5	2	noun	A strength or talent; a strong point.
fortify	7	3	verb	(transitive) To give power, strength, or vigour to (oneself or someone, or to something); to strengthen.
foyer	5	2	noun	A lobby, corridor, or waiting room, used in a hotel, theater, etc.
ferocious	9	3		Extreme or intense.
feeling	7	2	noun	Emotion; impression.
forthwith	9	2		(chiefly formal, literary, law) Without delay; immediately.
forbidding	10	3	noun	Appearing to be threatening, unfriendly or potentially unpleasant.
forthcoming	11	3	noun	Willing to co-operate or provide information; candid, frank, responsive.
fervour	7	2	noun	Commonwealth and Ireland standard spelling of fervor.
forum	5	2	noun	(Internet) An Internet message board where users can post messages regarding one or more topics of discussion.
fetid	5	2	noun	Foul-smelling, stinking.
fortuitous	10	4		Happening by a lucky chance; lucky or fortunate.
face	4	1	noun	(anatomy) The front part of the head of a human or other animal, featuring the eyes, nose, and mouth, and the surrounding area.
fealty	6	3	noun	Fidelity to one's lord or master; the feudal obligation by which the tenant or vassal was bound to be faithful to his lord.
fettered	8	2		Bound by chains or shackles.
foul	4	1	noun	(sports) A breach of the rules of a game, especially one involving inappropriate contact with an opposing player in order to gain an advantage; for example, tripping someone up in soccer, or contact of any kind in basketball.
feral	5	2	noun	Wild; untamed.
foresight	9	2	noun	The ability to foresee or prepare wisely for the future.
forestall	9	2	verb	(transitive) To prevent, delay or hinder something by taking precautionary or anticipatory measures; to avert.
foreboding	10	3	noun	A sense of evil to come.
folio	5	3	noun	A page of a book, that is, one side of a leaf of a book.
fetch	5	1	verb	(transitive, ditransitive) To retrieve; to bear towards; to go and get.
feint	5	1	noun	(boxing, fencing) A blow, thrust, or other offensive movement resembling an attack on some part of the body, intended to distract from a real attack on another part.
fetching	8	2	noun	Attractive; pleasant to regard.
ferocity	8	4	noun	The condition of being ferocious.
fondness	8	2	noun	The quality of being fond: liking something, foolishness; doting affection; propensity.
fervency	8	3	noun	The state of being fervent.
forlornly	9	3		In a forlorn manner.
feign	5	1	verb	To make a false show or pretence of; to counterfeit or simulate.
foray	5	2	noun	A brief excursion or attempt, especially outside one's accustomed sphere.
fondle	6	2	verb	(transitive) To touch or stroke lovingly.
forgo	5	2	verb	To do without (something enjoyable); to relinquish.
feisty	6	2		Tenacious, energetic, spunky.
focused	7	2		Directing all one's efforts towards achieving a particular goal.
fearsome	8	2		frightening, especially in appearance.
forward	7	2	verb	(not comparable) Situated toward or at the front of something.
forge	5	1	verb	To form or create with concerted effort.
feel	4	1	verb	(heading) To sense or think emotionally or judgmentally.
forbearance	11	3	noun	Patient self-control; restraint and tolerance under provocation.
foster	6	2	noun	(transitive) To nurture or bring up offspring, or to provide similar parental care to an unrelated child.
forfeit	7	2	verb	To suffer the loss of something by wrongdoing or non-compliance
fecund	6	2		(formal) Highly fertile; able to produce offspring.
fortune	7	2	noun	Good luck.
foolish	7	2		(of a person, an action, etc.) Lacking good sense or judgement; unwise.
formulate	9	3	verb	(transitive) To put into a clear and definite form of statement or expression.
foil	4	1	noun	(transitive) To apply the FOIL algorithm to.
fool	4	1	noun	(derogatory) A person with poor judgment or little intelligence.
fog	3	1	noun	(uncountable) A thick cloud that forms near the ground; the obscurity of such a cloud.
fearful	7	2		Frightening; causing fear.
fondling	8	3	noun	The act of caressing; manifestation of tenderness.
fortean	7	3	noun	Of or pertaining to anomalous phenomena.
foretell	8	2	verb	(ambitransitive) To predict; to tell (the future) before it occurs; to prophesy.
facility	8	4	noun	The physical means or contrivances to make something (especially a public service) possible; the required equipment, infrastructure, location etc.
foe	3	1	noun	An enemy.
foible	6	2	noun	(chiefly in the plural) A quirk, idiosyncrasy, frailty, or mannerism; an unusual habit that is slightly strange or silly.
fevered	7	2		Affected by a fever; feverish.
feebly	6	2		In a feeble manner.
facilitated	11	5		Made easier.
facetiously	11	4		In a facetious or flippant manner; in a manner that treats serious issues with deliberately inappropriate humor.
foudroyant	10	3		Having an awesome and overwhelming effect.
facilitates	11	4	verb	To make easy or easier.
feature	7	2	noun	An important or main item.
fossa	5	2	noun	A large nocturnal reddish-brown catlike mammal (Cryptoprocta ferox) of the civet family, endemic to the rainforests of Madagascar. It is slender, long-tailed and has retractile claws and anal scent glands.
foolhardy	9	3	noun	Marked by unthinking recklessness with disregard for danger; boldly rash; hotheaded.
fete	4	1	noun	A feast, celebration or carnival.
forceful	8	2		Capable of either physical or coercive force; powerful.
fortunate	9	3		Happening by good luck or favorable chance.
fere	4	1	noun	(dialectal or obsolete) A companion, comrade or friend.
feedback	8	2	noun	Critical assessment of a process or activity or of their results.
fence	5	1	noun	A thin artificial barrier that separates two pieces of land or forms a perimeter enclosing the lands of a house, building, etc.
forecast	8	2	noun	A prediction of the weather.
founder	7	2	noun	One who founds or establishes (a company, project, organisation, state, etc.).
fowl	4	1	noun	A bird hunted or kept for food, grouped into landfowl (order Galliformes), also called gamefowl, and waterfowl (order Anseriformes: ducks, geese, swans, etc.), which together form the clade Galloanserae.
fetish	6	2	noun	(countable, uncountable) Sexual fixation to or arousal at something abnormally sexual or nonsexual, such as an object or a nonsexual part of the body.
foggy	5	2		Obscured by mist or fog; unclear; hazy.
fetor	5	2	noun	An unpleasant smell.
fortuity	8	4	noun	(countable) A fortuitous event; an accident.
fervence	8	2	noun	Obsolete form of fervency. [The state of being fervent.]
fold	4	1	noun	(transitive) To bend (any thin material, such as paper) over so that it comes in contact with itself.
forest	6	2	noun	A dense uncultivated tract of trees and undergrowth, larger than woods.
febrile	7	2		Feverish, or having a high temperature.
feast	5	1	noun	A very large meal, often of a ceremonial nature.
follow	6	2	verb	(ambitransitive) To go after; to pursue; to move behind in the same path or direction, especially with the intent of catching.
foreground	10	2	noun	(computing, often attributive) The application the user is currently interacting with; the application window that appears in front of all others.
fecundity	9	4	noun	Ability to produce offspring.
festoon	7	2	noun	An ornament such as a garland or chain which hangs loosely from two tacked spots.
forestry	8	3	noun	(uncountable) The art and practice of cultivating, exploiting and renewing forests for commercial purposes.