5 letter words starting with wid

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

  • WIDDY
  • WIDEN
  • WIDER
  • WIDES
  • WIDOW
  • WIDTH

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 widen

widen (verb)

  1. To become wide or wider.
  2. To make wide or wider.
  3. To let out clothes to a larger size.
  4. To broaden or extend in scope or range.
  5. To convert to a data type that can hold a larger number of distinct values.

Definition of wider

wider (adjective)

  1. Having a large physical extent from side to side.
  2. Large in scope.
  3. Operating at the side of the playing area.
  4. On one side or the other of the mark; too far sideways from the mark, the wicket, the batsman, etc.
  5. Made, as a vowel, with a less tense, and more open and relaxed, condition of the organs in the mouth.
  6. (now rare) Vast, great in extent, extensive.
  7. Located some distance away; distant, far.
  8. Far from truth, propriety, necessity, etc.
  9. Of or supporting a greater range of text characters than can fit into the traditional 8-bit representation.

wider (adverb)

  1. Extensively
  2. Completely
  3. Away from a given goal
  4. So as to leave or have a great space between the sides; so as to form a large opening.

Definition of wides

wides (noun)

  1. A ball that passes so far from the batsman that the umpire deems it unplayable; the arm signal used by an umpire to signal a wide; the extra run added to the batting side's score

Definition of widow

widow (noun)

  1. A woman whose spouse has died (and who has not remarried); feminine of widower.
  2. A person whose spouse has died (and who has not remarried).
  3. (in combination) A woman whose husband is often away pursuing a sport, etc.
  4. An additional hand of cards dealt face down in some card games, to be used by the highest bidder.
  5. A single line of type that ends a paragraph, carried over to the next page or column.
  6. A venomous spider, of the genus Latrodectus.

widow (verb)

  1. To make a widow or widower of someone; to cause the death of the spouse of.
  2. To strip of anything valued.
  3. To endow with a widow's right.
  4. To be widow to.

Definition of width

width (noun)

  1. The state of being wide.
  2. The measurement of the extent of something from side to side.
  3. A piece of material measured along its smaller dimension, especially fabric.
  4. The horizontal distance between a batsman and the ball as it passes him.
  5. The use of all the width of the pitch, from one side to the other.