Words That Start With
SM
English words beginning with “SM” — sorted by frequency
🟩 5-Letter Words Starting With SM
30 Wordle wordsThese are valid 5-letter words — exactly the format Wordle uses every day.
🎯 4-Letter Words Starting With SM
11 wordsUseful for Scrabble, crossword fill-ins, and short word puzzles.
All Words Starting With SM
157 words — most common firstSorted by how frequently each word appears in written English.
| Word | Letters | Syllables | Type | Definition |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| smirk | 5 | 1 | noun | An uneven, often crooked smile that is insolent, self-satisfied, conceited or scornful. |
| smitten | 7 | 2 | In love. | |
| smack | 5 | 1 | noun | A distinct flavor, especially if slight. |
| smug | 4 | 1 | verb | irritatingly pleased with oneself; offensively self-complacent, self-satisfied. |
| smutty | 6 | 2 | verb | (figurative) Obscene, indecent. |
| smut | 4 | 1 | noun | (uncountable) Sexually vulgar material; something that is sexual in a dirty way; pornographic material. |
| smooth | 6 | 1 | noun | Having a texture that lacks friction. Not rough. |
| small | 5 | 1 | noun | Not large or big; insignificant; few in number. |
| smile | 5 | 1 | noun | A facial expression comprised by flexing the muscles of both ends of one's mouth, often showing the front teeth, without vocalisation, and in humans is a common involuntary or voluntary expression of happiness, pleasure, amusement, goodwill, or anxiety. |
| smoky | 5 | 2 | Filled with smoke. | |
| smash | 5 | 1 | verb | (colloquial) Something very successful or popular (as music, food, fashion, etc). |
| smart | 5 | 1 | noun | (intransitive) To hurt or sting. |
| smoldering | 10 | 3 | noun | US standard spelling of smouldering. [(sometimes figuratively) The act by which something smoulders; residual heat.] |
| smother | 7 | 2 | verb | (transitive) To suffocate; stifle; obstruct, more or less completely, the respiration of something or someone. |
| smirch | 6 | 1 | noun | (figurative, archaic) A stain on somebody's reputation. |
| smear | 5 | 1 | noun | (transitive) To spread (a substance, especially one that colours or is dirty) across a surface by rubbing. |
| smite | 5 | 1 | verb | To kill violently; to slay. |
| smoke | 5 | 1 | noun | (uncountable) The visible vapor/vapour, gases, and fine particles given off by burning or smoldering material. |
| smothering | 10 | 3 | noun | The act by which someone or something is smothered. |
| smirked | 7 | 1 | verb | To smile in a way that is affected, smug, insolent or contemptuous. |
| smolder | 7 | 2 | verb | (intransitive, now US) To burn with no flame and little smoke. |
| smicker | 7 | 2 | verb | (intransitive, chiefly Scotland) To look or smile seductively or amorously. |
| smell | 5 | 1 | noun | A sensation, pleasant or unpleasant, detected by inhaling air (or, the case of water-breathing animals, water) carrying airborne molecules of a substance. |
| smoulder | 8 | 2 | verb | (transitive) To smother; to suffocate; to choke. |
| smidgen | 7 | 2 | noun | Chiefly in the form a smidgen of: a very small amount or quantity; a bit, a trace. |
| smirky | 6 | 2 | Smirking, or as if smirking | |
| smog | 4 | 1 | noun | A noxious mixture of particulates and gases that is the result of urban air pollution. |
| smarm | 5 | 1 | noun | Smarmy language or behavior. |
| smolt | 5 | 1 | noun | A young salmon two or three years old, when it has acquired its silvery color. |
| smutch | 6 | 1 | noun | To soil, stain or smudge. |
| smarting | 8 | 2 | noun | A sensation that smarts or stings. |
| smidgeon | 8 | 2 | noun | Alternative spelling of smidgen. [Chiefly in the form a smidgen of: a very small amount or quantity; a bit, a trace.] |
| smiled | 6 | 1 | verb | (intransitive) To express amusement, pleasure, or love and kindness. |
| smaze | 5 | 1 | noun | Smoky haze in the air. |
| smudge | 6 | 1 | noun | To obscure by blurring; to smear. |
| smarmy | 6 | 2 | Falsely earnest, smug, ingratiating, or pious. | |
| smiling | 7 | 2 | noun | The action of the verb to smile. |
| smirking | 8 | 2 | noun | The act of one who smirks. |
| smashed | 7 | 1 | (slang) Drunk. | |
| smoothly | 8 | 2 | in a smooth manner; smooth | |
| smouldering | 11 | 3 | noun | (British spelling) Burning slowly, producing smoke but no flame. |
| smuggle | 7 | 2 | verb | (transitive, intransitive) To import or export, illicitly or by stealth, without paying lawful customs charges or duties |
| smooch | 6 | 1 | noun | (informal, ambitransitive) To kiss. |
| smasher | 7 | 2 | noun | Something that, or someone who, smashes. |
| smatter | 7 | 2 | noun | (transitive) To speak (a language) with spotty or superficial knowledge. |
| smeared | 7 | 1 | the debut studio album by Canadian rock band Sloan. | |
| smilet | 6 | 2 | noun | A little smile. |
| smirkingly | 10 | 3 | In a smirking manner. | |
| smouldry | 8 | 2 | smouldering | |
| smush | 5 | 1 | verb | (transitive) To mash or push down or in; compress |
| smartass | 8 | 2 | noun | (mildly vulgar) Synonym of know-it-all, an obnoxious clever person or a person making obnoxious efforts to seem clever by acting or behaving as if they know everything. |
| smithereen | 10 | 3 | noun | (Canada) A native of Smithers, British Columbia. |
| smexy | 5 | 2 | (colloquial, slang) Embodying the qualities of sex appeal and intelligence. | |
| smartassed | 10 | 2 | Tending to make insolent quips. | |
| smoking | 7 | 2 | noun | (usually) The burning and inhalation of tobacco. |
| smock | 5 | 1 | noun | A loose garment worn as protection by a painter, etc. |
| smorgasbord | 11 | 3 | noun | (figuratively) An abundant and diverse collection of things. |
| smelter | 7 | 2 | noun | A place where smelting is done. |
| smegma | 6 | 2 | noun | A whitish sebaceous secretion that collects between the glans penis and foreskin or in the vulva. |
| smoothing | 9 | 2 | noun | The act by which something is made smooth. |
| smattering | 10 | 3 | noun | A superficial or shallow knowledge of a subject. |
| smacker | 7 | 2 | noun | (humorous slang) A loud kiss. |
| smit | 4 | 1 | noun | (transitive, UK, obsolete, dialect) To infect. |
| smudgy | 6 | 2 | Marked with smudges. | |
| smudged | 7 | 1 | Blurred as by being rubbed. | |
| smee | 4 | 1 | noun | The pintail, wigeon, pochard, or smew. |
| smittle | 7 | 2 | noun | (obsolete, UK, transitive) To infect. |
| smily | 5 | 1 | Alternative form of smiley. [Cheerful and happy; smiling.] | |
| smartarse | 9 | 2 | noun | Alternative form of smart arse. [(idiomatic, UK, Ireland, Commonwealth) One who is particularly flippant or insolent or tends to make snide remarks or jokes.] |
| smeggy | 6 | 2 | (UK, slang) Bad, foul, inferior. | |
| smileful | 8 | 2 | noun | Full of smiles. |
| smize | 5 | 1 | verb | (slang) To smile with one's eyes. |
| smelt | 5 | 1 | verb | Production of metal, especially iron, from ore in a process that involves heating and chemical reduction of metal compounds into purified metal. |
| smiley | 6 | 2 | noun | A simplified representation of a smiling face. |
| smelly | 6 | 2 | noun | Having a bad smell. |
| smew | 4 | 1 | noun | A small compact diving duck, Mergellus albellus, that breeds in the northern taiga of Europe and Asia and winters on sheltered coasts or inland lakes. |
| smartness | 9 | 2 | noun | (uncountable) The state or quality of being smart, intelligence. |
| smiler | 6 | 2 | noun | Someone who smiles. |
| smugness | 8 | 2 | noun | (uncountable) The state or quality of being smug. |
| smoothen | 8 | 2 | verb | (transitive) To make smooth. |
| smallholder | 11 | 3 | noun | A person who owns or runs a smallholding (small farm): a minor independent farmer. |
| smalls | 6 | 1 | noun | (UK, Ireland, Commonwealth, informal) Underwear. |
| smothered | 9 | 2 | "Smothered" is a single by American industrial metal band Spineshank. | |
| smokescreen | 11 | 2 | noun | (figuratively) Anything used metaphorically to conceal or distract. |
| smudging | 8 | 2 | noun | The act of something being smudged. |
| smurf | 5 | 1 | noun | (comics, fiction) A blue pixie with a white stocking cap, from the media franchise The Smurfs. |
| smuttiness | 10 | 3 | noun | The state or quality of being smutty. |
| smacked | 7 | 1 | verb | (transitive) To get the flavor of. |
| smarter | 7 | 2 | noun | (mnemonic) An acronym for remembering desirable criteria for goal-setting: Specific, Measurable, Acceptable, Realistic, Time Frame, Extending, Rewarding |
| smooching | 9 | 2 | noun | affectionate play (or foreplay without contact with the genital organs) |
| smallclothes | 12 | 2 | noun | (British, archaic) Underwear and other small items of clothing. |
| smail | 5 | 1 | noun | (Internet, dated) Conventional postal mail; snail mail. |
| smirker | 7 | 2 | noun | One who smirks. |
| smerk | 5 | 1 | noun | Dated form of smirk. [An uneven, often crooked smile that is insolent, self-satisfied, conceited or scornful.] |
| smackdown | 9 | 2 | noun | A physical or emotional confrontation; a battle, a fight; also, a bitter rivalry. |
| smaak | 5 | 1 | verb | (transitive, South Africa, slang) To like; to be attracted to. |
| smartypants | 11 | 3 | noun | Alternative form of smarty pants. [(informal) A smart aleck or know-it-all.] |
| smap | 4 | 1 | a Japanese boy band formed by Johnny & Associates. | |
| smotheration | 12 | 4 | noun | Suffocation. |
| smerd | 5 | 2 | noun | (historical) A member of a class of peasants in medieval Rus', perhaps initially freemen but later gradually reduced to a lower status. |
| smegging | 8 | 2 | (UK, slang) Fucking, sodding. | |
| smithy | 6 | 2 | noun | The location where a smith (particularly a blacksmith) works, a forge. |
| smoked | 6 | 1 | Of food, treated with smoke, often for flavor or as a method of preservation. | |
| smuggler | 8 | 2 | noun | One who smuggles things. |
| smoothness | 10 | 2 | noun | The condition of being smooth; the degree or measure of said condition. |
| smartly | 7 | 2 | In a smart manner. | |
| smacking | 8 | 2 | noun | A series of smacks; the act by which somebody is smacked. |
| smarten | 7 | 2 | verb | (transitive) To make smarter in appearance; to refurbish or spruce up. |
| smoothed | 8 | 1 | made smooth by ironing | |
| smugly | 6 | 2 | In a self-satisfied manner. | |
| smelting | 8 | 2 | noun | (metallurgy) The process of melting or fusion, especially to extract a metal from its ore. |
| smidge | 6 | 1 | noun | Synonym of smidgen. |
| smaller | 7 | 2 | small or little relative to something else | |
| smiles | 6 | 1 | noun | A surname from Old English. |
| smartphone | 10 | 2 | noun | (mobile telephony) A mobile phone with more advanced features and greater computing capacity than a featurephone. |
| smaragdine | 10 | 3 | noun | Having the colour of emeralds. |
| smalto | 6 | 2 | noun | A piece of coloured glass used in mosaic. |
| smarmily | 8 | 3 | In a smarmy manner. | |
| smithing | 8 | 2 | noun | The work of a smith; the forging of metal. |
| smil | 4 | 1 | noun | (multimedia) Acronym of Synchronized Multimedia Integration Language. |
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