5 letter words starting with ten

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 ten.

  • TENCH
  • TENDS
  • TENDU
  • TENES
  • TENET
  • TENGE
  • TENIA
  • TENNE
  • TENNO
  • TENNY
  • TENON
  • TENOR
  • TENSE
  • TENTH
  • TENTS
  • TENTY
  • TENUE

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 tenia

tenia (noun)

  1. A ribbon worn in the hair in ancient Greece.
  2. (Doric architecture) A band between the frieze and architrave in the Doric order.
  3. Any of several ribbon-like bands of tissue.
  4. Any species of the genus Taenia of tapeworms.

Definition of tenny

tenny (noun)

  1. A rarely-used tincture of orange or bright brown.

Definition of tenor

tenor (noun)

  1. A musical range or section higher than bass and lower than alto.
  2. A person, instrument or group that performs in the tenor (higher than bass and lower than alto) range.
  3. A musical part or section that holds or performs the main melody, as opposed to the contratenor bassus and contratenor altus, who perform countermelodies.
  4. The lowest tuned in a ring of bells.
  5. Tone, as of a conversation.
  6. Duration; continuance; a state of holding on in a continuous course; general tendency; career.
  7. The subject in a metaphor to which attributes are ascribed.
  8. Time to maturity of a bond.
  9. Stamp; character; nature.
  10. An exact copy of a writing, set forth in the words and figures of it. It differs from purport, which is only the substance or general import of the instrument.
  11. That course of thought which holds on through a discourse; the general drift or course of thought; purport; intent; meaning; understanding.
  12. A tenor saxophone.

tenor (adjective)

  1. Of or pertaining to the tenor part or range.

Definition of tenth

tenth (noun)

  1. The person or thing coming next after the ninth in a series; that which is in the tenth position.
  2. One of ten equal parts of a whole.
  3. The interval between any tone and the tone represented on the tenth degree of the staff above it, as between one of the scale and three of the octave above; the octave of the third.
  4. (in the plural) A temporary aid issuing out of personal property, and granted to the king by Parliament; formerly, the real tenth part of all the movables belonging to the subject.

tenth (verb)

  1. To divide by ten, into tenths.

tenth (adjective)

  1. The ordinal numeral form of ten; next in order after that which is ninth.
  2. Being one of ten equal parts of a whole.