12 common words, 88 with definitions — filter by type, find a Wordle guess.
In 5-letter words starting with BO, the most common letters in position 3 are: O, A, B, G, N.
| Word | Type | Definition |
|---|---|---|
| BOARD | noun | a flat piece of wood; a committee or governing body |
| BOAST | verb | to talk with excessive pride about one's achievements |
| BOBAC | noun | The bobak marmot (Marmota bobak). |
| BOBBY | noun | informal term for a British policeman |
| BOCAL | noun | A curved, tapered metal tube which connects the reed of several double reed woodwind instruments… |
| BOCCA | noun | The round hole in the furnace of a glassworks through which the fused glass is taken out. |
| BOCCE | noun | A game, similar to bowls or pétanque, played on a long, narrow, dirt-covered court |
| BODGE | noun | A clumsy or inelegant job, usually a temporary repair; a patch, a repair. |
| BODHI | noun | The state of enlightenment that finally ends the cycle of death and rebirth and leads to nirvana. |
| BODLE | noun | A former Scottish copper coin of less value than a bawbee, worth about one-sixth of an English… |
| BOGAN | noun | (derogatory stereotype) An unsophisticated person from a working class background. |
| BOGEY | noun | One who robs others in a lawless area, especially as part of a group. |
| BOGGY | adjective | Having the qualities of a bog; i.e. dank, squishy, muddy, and full of water and rotting vegetation. |
| BOGIE | noun | One who robs others in a lawless area, especially as part of a group. |
| BOGLE | noun | A goblin; a frightful spectre or phantom; a bogy or bugbear. |
| BOGUE | noun | A species of seabream fish native to the eastern Atlantic (Boops boops). |
| BOGUS | adjective | not genuine; fake or fraudulent |
| BOHEA | noun | A black tea from China. |
| BOHOR | noun | Ellipsis of bohor reedbuck. |
| BOLAR | adjective | Of or relating to bole or clay; partaking of the nature and qualities of bole; clayey. |
| BOLDO | noun | Peumus boldus, a monimiaceous tree. |
| BOLED | noun | Having a bole or trunk of the specified kind. |
| BOLIS | noun | A bolide or fireball (type of meteor) |
| BOLLY | noun | informal name for Bollinger champagne |
| BOLTI | noun | Alternative form of bolty. |
| BOLUS | noun | A round mass of something, especially of chewed food in the mouth or alimentary canal. |
| BOMBO | noun | Short for bombo criollo |
| BONCE | noun | (British slang) the human head |
| BONED | verb | To prepare (meat, etc) by removing the bone or bones from. |
| BONER | noun | An erect penis. |
| BONGO | noun | A striped bovine mammal found in Africa, Tragelaphus eurycerus. |
| BONNY | adjective | Merry; happy. |
| BONUS | noun | an extra payment or benefit beyond what is expected |
| BONZE | noun | A Buddhist monk or priest in East Asia. |
| BOOBY | noun | a foolish person; a tropical seabird that dives for fish |
| BOODY | noun | To sulk or mope. |
| BOOKY | noun | Bookish. |
| BOOLY | noun | A company of Irish herdsmen, or a single herdsman, wandering from place to place with flocks and… |
| BOOMY | adjective | Characterized by heavy bass sounds. |
| BOONK | noun | the little bittern, a small heron |
| BOORT | noun | Alternative form of bort. |
| BOOSE | noun | A stall for an animal (usually a cow). |
| BOOST | verb | to help or encourage the improvement of something |
| BOOSY | noun | Alternative form of boose (“animal's stall”). |
| BOOTH | noun | small area set off by walls for special use |
| BOOTS | noun | A heavy shoe that covers part of the leg. |
| BOOTY | noun | A form of prize which, when a ship was captured at sea, could be distributed at once. |
| BOOZE | verb | consume alcohol |
| BOOZY | adjective | (of a person) Intoxicated by alcohol. |
| BORAK | noun | A cosmetic face powder or paste to protect the face from the sun, traditionally used by the… |
| BORAL | noun | aluminium borotartrate, an astringent and antiseptic. |
| BORAX | noun | A white or gray/grey crystalline salt, with a slight alkaline taste, used as a flux, in soldering metals, making enamels, fixing colors/colours on porcelain, and as a soap, etc. |
| BOREE | noun | Any of various species of wattle tree (genus Acacia), especially Acacia pendula and Acacia… |
| BORER | noun | A tedious person. |
| BORIC | adjective | Of, pertaining to, or containing the element boron. |
| BORNE | verb | To carry or convey, literally or figuratively. |
| BORON | noun | The chemical element (symbol B) with an atomic number of 5, which is a metalloid found in its pure form as a dark amorphous powder. |
| BORTZ | noun | Diamond of inferior quality, commonly used for drill tips; abrasive diamond powder; bort. |
| BORYL | noun | Any organic boron radical of the form R2B- especially when linked to a metal atom |
| BOSKY | adjective | Having abundant bushes, shrubs or trees. |
| BOSOM | verb | squeeze tightly in your arms, usually with fondness |
| BOSSY | adjective | fond of giving orders and making others comply |
| BOSUN | noun | A warrant or petty officer on board a naval ship. |
| BOTCH | verb | to carry out badly or carelessly; to bungle |
| BOTHY | noun | A small cottage, especially one for communal use in remote areas by labourers or farmhands. |
| BOUGE | noun | The right to rations at court, granted to the king's household, attendants etc. |
| BOUGH | noun | A firm branch of a tree. |
| BOULE | noun | One of the bowls used in the French game of boules. |
| BOUND | adjective | certain to happen; restricted; heading toward a place |
| BOURD | noun | A joke; jesting, banter. |
| BOURG | noun | Obsolete form of burgh. |
| BOURN | noun | A small stream or brook. |
| BOUSE | noun | To haul or hoist (something) with a tackle. |
| BOUSY | noun | Obsolete form of boozy. |
| BOVID | noun | An animal of the family Bovidae (such as the antelope, gazelle, goat, and sheep). |
| BOWED | verb | To play music on (a stringed) instrument using a bow. |
| BOWEL | noun | A part or division of the intestines, usually the large intestine. |
| BOWER | noun | A bedroom or private apartments, especially for a woman in a medieval castle. |
| BOWIE | noun | A Bowie knife |
| BOWLA | noun | Contraction of bowl + of. |
| BOWLS | noun | A roughly hemispherical container used to hold, mix or present food, such as salad, fruit or soup, or other items. |
| BOXEN | noun | Made of boxwood. |
| BOXER | noun | A participant (fighter) in a boxing match. |
| BOXTY | noun | A traditional Irish potato pancake. |
| BOYAR | noun | A member of a rank of aristocracy (second only to princes) in Russia, Ukraine, Belarus, Bulgaria, Macedonia, Serbia and Romania. |
| BOYER | noun | A Flemish sloop with a castle at each end. |
| BOYLA | noun | An Aboriginal witch doctor or sorcerer. |
| BOZAL | noun | A (black) slave recently brought to a (European, especially Spanish) colony from Africa. |
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This list has 88 five-letter words starting with BO that have definitions. 12 are common everyday words. Wordle's answer list includes 3 of them.
If BO is confirmed in positions 1–2, try BOOST, BOARD, BONUS. Those words are in Wordle's answer list and cover common letters in the remaining slots.
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