5 letter words starting with aba

Looking for a clue for todays Wordle or another Word game? Look no further! We got you covered. We got quite a few plausible five letter words starting with aba.

  • ABACA
  • ABACI
  • ABACK
  • ABACS
  • ABAFT
  • ABAHT
  • ABAKA
  • ABAMP
  • ABAND
  • ABASE
  • ABASH
  • ABASK
  • ABATE
  • ABAYA

Sometimes the solution is an uncommon word, then It’s time to learn something new. Here’s the definition of a few of these words:

Definition of aback

aback (adverb)

  1. Towards the back or rear; backwards.
  2. In the rear; a distance behind.
  3. By surprise; startled; dumbfounded. (see usage)
  4. Backward against the mast; said of the sails when pressed by the wind from the "wrong" (forward) side, or of a ship when its sails are set that way.

aback (noun)

  1. An abacus.



Definition of abase

abase (verb)

  1. To lower, as in condition in life, office, rank, etc., so as to cause pain or hurt feelings; to degrade, to depress, to humble, to humiliate.
  2. To lower physically; to depress; to cast or throw down; to stoop.
  3. To lower in value, in particular by altering the content of alloys in coins; to debase.

Definition of abate

abate (noun)

  1. Abatement.

abate (verb)

  1. (obsolete outside law) To put an end to; to cause to cease.
  2. To become null and void.
  3. To nullify; make void.
  4. To humble; to lower in status; to bring someone down physically or mentally.
  5. To be humbled; to be brought down physically or mentally.
  6. To curtail; to deprive.
  7. To reduce in amount, size, or value.
  8. To decrease in size, value, or amount.
  9. To moderate; to lessen in force, intensity, to subside.
  10. To decrease in intensity or force; to subside.
  11. To deduct or omit.
  12. To bar or except.
  13. To cut away or hammer down, in such a way as to leave a figure in relief, as a sculpture, or in metalwork.
  14. To dull the edge or point of; to blunt.
  15. To destroy, or level to the ground.

abate (verb)

  1. To enter a tenement without permission after the owner has died and before the heir takes possession.

abate (noun)

  1. An Italian abbot, or other member of the clergy.