5 letter words starting with ban

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 ban.

  • BANAK
  • BANAL
  • BANCO
  • BANCS
  • BANDA
  • BANDH
  • BANDS
  • BANDY
  • BANED
  • BANES
  • BANGS
  • BANIA
  • BANJO
  • BANKS
  • BANKY
  • BANNS
  • BANTS
  • BANTU
  • BANTY
  • BANTZ
  • BANYA

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 banal

banal (adjective)

  1. Common in a boring way, to the point of being predictable; containing nothing new or fresh.
  2. (history) Relating to a type of feudal jurisdiction or service.

Definition of bands

bands (noun)

  1. A strip of material used for strengthening or coupling.
  2. A long strip of material, color, etc, that is different from the surrounding area.
  3. A strip of decoration.
  4. That which serves as the means of union or connection between persons; a tie.
  5. A linen collar or ruff worn in the 16th and 17th centuries.
  6. (in the plural) Two strips of linen hanging from the neck in front as part of a clerical, legal, or academic dress.
  7. A part of the electromagnetic spectrum.
  8. A group of energy levels in a solid state material.
  9. A bond.
  10. Pledge; security.
  11. A ring, such as a wedding ring (wedding band), or a ring put on a bird's leg to identify it.
  12. Any distinguishing line formed by chromatography, electrophoresis etc
  13. Short for band cell.
  14. (hiphop, often in the plural) A wad of money totaling $1K, held together by a band; (by extension) money

bands (verb)

  1. To fasten with a band.
  2. To fasten an identifying band around the leg of (a bird).

bands (noun)

  1. A group of musicians who perform together as an ensemble, usually for a professional recording artist.
  2. A type of orchestra originally playing janissary music.
  3. A marching band.
  4. A group of people loosely united for a common purpose (a band of thieves).
  5. A small group of people living in a simple society, contrasted with tribes, chiefdoms, and states.
  6. A group of aboriginals that has official recognition as an organized unit by the federal government of Canada.

bands (verb)

  1. To group together for a common purpose; to confederate.
  2. To group (students) together by perceived ability; to stream.

Definition of banks

banks (noun)

  1. An institution where one can place and borrow money and take care of financial affairs.
  2. A branch office of such an institution.
  3. An underwriter or controller of a card game; also banque.
  4. A fund from deposits or contributions, to be used in transacting business; a joint stock or capital.
  5. The sum of money etc. which the dealer or banker has as a fund from which to draw stakes and pay losses.
  6. Money; profit
  7. In certain games, such as dominos, a fund of pieces from which the players are allowed to draw.
  8. A safe and guaranteed place of storage for and retrieval of important items or goods.
  9. A device used to store coins or currency.

banks (verb)

  1. To deal with a bank or financial institution, or for an institution to provide financial services to a client.
  2. To put into a bank.
  3. To conceal in the rectum for use in prison.

banks (noun)

  1. An edge of river, lake, or other watercourse.
  2. An elevation, or rising ground, under the sea; a shallow area of shifting sand, gravel, mud, and so forth (for example, a sandbank or mudbank).
  3. A slope of earth, sand, etc.; an embankment.
  4. The incline of an aircraft, especially during a turn.
  5. An incline, a hill.
  6. A mass noun for a quantity of clouds.
  7. The face of the coal at which miners are working.
  8. A deposit of ore or coal, worked by excavations above water level.
  9. The ground at the top of a shaft.

banks (verb)

  1. To roll or incline laterally in order to turn.
  2. To cause (an aircraft) to bank.
  3. To form into a bank or heap, to bank up.
  4. To cover the embers of a fire with ashes in order to retain heat.
  5. To raise a mound or dike about; to enclose, defend, or fortify with a bank; to embank.
  6. To pass by the banks of.
  7. To provide additional power for a train ascending a bank (incline) by attaching another locomotive.

banks (noun)

  1. A row or panel of items stored or grouped together.
  2. A row of keys on a musical keyboard or the equivalent on a typewriter keyboard.
  3. A contiguous block of memory that is of fixed, hardware-dependent size, but often larger than a page and partitioning the memory such that two distinct banks do not overlap.
  4. A set of multiple adjacent drop targets.

banks (verb)

  1. (order and arrangement) To arrange or order in a row.

banks (noun)

  1. A bench, as for rowers in a galley; also, a tier of oars.
  2. A bench or seat for judges in court.
  3. The regular term of a court of law, or the full court sitting to hear arguments upon questions of law, as distinguished from a sitting at nisi prius, or a court held for jury trials. See banc.
  4. A kind of table used by printers.
  5. A bench, or row of keys belonging to a keyboard, as in an organ.
  6. Slang for money

Definition of banns

banns (noun)

  1. The announcement of a forthcoming marriage (legally required for a church wedding in England and Wales and read on the three Sundays preceding the marriage).
  2. Historically, any public announcement of a coming event.