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Words starting with A

Every word in the dictionary whose first letter is A — 10,456 of 172,823.

Words
10,456
Everyday
2,183in the size-ranked core
Longest
216 words tie
Shortest
216 words tie

Showing the first 300 of 10,456, everyday words first and alphabetical inside each group. The longer openings below cut this list into readable pieces.

What is in this list

6 words tie at 21 letters, among them acetylcholinesterases, adrenocorticosteroids and adrenocorticotrophins.

They run from 2 to 21 letters; 1,616 of them have 8 letters, more than any other length.

2,183 of them — 21% — are in the everyday tier; the rest are filed as rarer.

Every one of them contains an A.

The one furthest down the tiers is archaeoastronomies, filed in the unranked list.

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Longer openings that begin with A

Elsewhere

Ordered everyday words first, then alphabetical inside each group — the same rule on every list here. At most 300 are printed on one page.