Skip to content
Words I Can Make

5-Letter Words Starting With NA

There are 48 five-letter words starting with NA in our dictionary; 26 of them are common words.

Type your own letters to find only the 5-letter words you can make, or leave it empty to open this list in the word finder.

All 48 words

  • naive8 points
  • named8 points
  • nasty8 points
  • names7 points
  • naked10 points
  • nails5 points
  • nappy12 points
  • natty8 points
  • naval8 points
  • navel8 points
  • napes7 points
  • nasal5 points
  • nanny8 points
  • narcs7 points
  • nacho10 points
  • nabob9 points
  • naves8 points
  • nacre7 points
  • nadir6 points
  • naiad6 points
  • natal5 points
  • navvy14 points
  • narky12 points
  • natch10 points
  • naans5 points
  • naifs8 points
  • nancy10 points
  • nawab10 points
  • nappe9 points
  • naevi8 points
  • navar8 points
  • namer7 points
  • nance7 points
  • nards6 points
  • naira5 points
  • nares5 points
  • naris5 points
  • nates5 points
  • nazis14 points
  • naggy10 points
  • narks9 points
  • nabes7 points
  • nabis7 points
  • narco7 points
  • naric7 points
  • nadas6 points
  • naled6 points
  • nanas5 points

Quick facts

  • Total words: 48
  • By usage: 12 very common, 14 common, 22 rare

Highest scoring (classic tiles)

  1. navvy 14
  2. nazis 14
  3. nappy 12
  4. narky 12
  5. nacho 10
  6. naggy 10
  7. naked 10
  8. nancy 10
  9. natch 10
  10. nawab 10

Most common

  1. naive
  2. named
  3. nasty
  4. names
  5. naked
  6. nails
  7. nappy
  8. natty
  9. naval
  10. navel

Definitions

naive (adjective)
Marked by or showing unaffected simplicity and lack of guile or worldly experience.
nasty (adjective)
Offensive or even (of persons) malicious.
names (noun)
Verbal abuse; a crude substitute for argument.
naked (adjective)
Having no clothes on the body.

The five-letter words that start with the letters NA number 48 in our dictionary. About 26 of them are common, which is the group most players will recognise on sight, and the remainder are rarer words that still count in the majority of games. The list is complete, computed from the full word list rather than typed by hand, so you can trust that nothing is missing. The best scorer is NAVVY, at 14 points.

How to use this page

This page works as both a reference and a tool. As a reference, it lists every word that start with the letters NA, sorted by familiarity. As a tool, it accepts your own letters in the search box and returns the subset you can play, with scores. The related links at the end cover neighbouring letters and lengths.

Tips

If you know some letters of a word and their positions, a pattern search finds it faster than scanning a list. Open the word finder, type the word with question marks for the unknown letters, and every match appears immediately. You can combine a pattern with the starts-with and ends-with filters to narrow the set further. This works for crosswords, for daily five-letter puzzles and for any tile game where a board word gives you two or three fixed letters.

Questions

Which five-letter words starting with NA are the most common?

NAIVE, NAMED and NASTY are among the most familiar. The list is sorted with everyday words first, and the very common ones carry a small dot, so you can read the top of the page and skip the obscure entries at the bottom.

Can I search this list with my own letters?

Yes. Type your letters into the search box at the top of the page, using a question mark for a blank, and the tool will show only the five-letter words starting with NA you can actually spell from that rack, with scores.