5 letter words starting with min

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 min.

  • MINAE
  • MINAR
  • MINAS
  • MINCE
  • MINCY
  • MINDI
  • MINDS
  • MINED
  • MINER
  • MINES
  • MINGE
  • MINGI
  • MINGS
  • MINGY
  • MINIM
  • MINIS
  • MINKE
  • MINKS
  • MINNY
  • MINOR
  • MINOS
  • MINSE
  • MINTS
  • MINTY
  • MINUS
  • MINXY

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 mince

mince (noun)

  1. Finely chopped meat.
  2. Finely chopped mixed fruit used in Christmas pies; mincemeat.
  3. An affected (often dainty or short and precise) gait.
  4. An affected manner, especially of speaking; an affectation.
  5. (chiefly in the plural) An eye (from mince pie).

mince (verb)

  1. To make less; make small.
  2. To lessen; diminish; to diminish in speaking; speak of lightly or slightingly; minimise.
  3. To effect mincingly.
  4. To cut into very small pieces; to chop fine.
  5. To suppress or weaken the force of
  6. To say or utter vaguely, not directly or frankly
  7. To affect; to pronounce affectedly or with an accent.
  8. To walk with short steps; to walk in a prim, affected manner.
  9. To act or talk with affected nicety; to affect delicacy in manner.

Definition of minim

minim (noun)

  1. A half note, drawn as a semibreve with a stem.
  2. A unit of volume, in the Imperial and U.S. customary systems, 1/60 fluid drachm. Approximately equal to 1 drop, 62 μL or 0.9 grain (weight) of water.
  3. A short vertical stroke used in handwriting.
  4. Anything very minute; applied to animalcula and the like.
  5. The smallest kind of worker in a leaf-cutter ant colony.
  6. A little man or being; a dwarf.
  7. A small fish; a minnow.
  8. A short poetical encomium.


Definition of minor

minor (noun)

  1. A person who is below the age of majority, consent, criminal responsibility or other adult responsibilities and accountabilities.
  2. A subject area of secondary concentration of a student at a college or university, or the student who has chosen such a secondary concentration.
  3. Determinant of a square submatrix
  4. (British slang) A younger brother (especially at a public school).
  5. A small worker in a leaf-cutter ant colony, sized between a minim and a media.
  6. The term of a syllogism which forms the subject of the conclusion.
  7. (campanology) Bell changes rung on six bells.

minor (verb)

  1. To choose or have an area of secondary concentration as a student in a college or university.

minor (adjective)

  1. Of little significance or importance.
  2. Of a scale which has lowered scale degrees three, six, and seven relative to major, but with the sixth and seventh not always lowered
  3. Being the smaller of the two intervals denoted by the same ordinal number

Definition of mints

mints (noun)

  1. A building or institution where money (originally, only coins) is produced under government licence.
  2. A large amount of money. A vast sum or amount, etc.
  3. Any place regarded as a source of unlimited supply; the supply itself.

mints (verb)

  1. To reproduce (coins), usually en masse, under licence.
  2. To invent; to forge; to fabricate; to fashion.

mints (noun)

  1. Any plant in the genus Mentha in the family Lamiaceae, typically aromatic with square stems.
  2. The flavouring of the plant, either a sweet, a jelly or sauce.
  3. Any plant in the mint family, Lamiaceae.
  4. A green colour, like that of mint.
  5. A mint-flavored candy, often eaten to sweeten the smell of the breath.

mints (noun)

  1. (provincial) Intent, purpose; an attempt, try; effort, endeavor.

mints (verb)

  1. (provincial) To try, attempt; take aim.
  2. (provincial) To try, attempt, endeavor; to take aim at; to try to hit; to purpose.
  3. To hint; suggest; insinuate.