Words starting with AN

Every word in the dictionary whose first 2 letters are AN — 1,965 of 172,823.

Words
1,965
Everyday
233in the size-ranked core
Longest
213 words tie
Shortest
2an

Showing the first 300 of 1,965, everyday words first and alphabetical inside each group. The longer openings below cut this list into readable pieces.

What is in this list

3 words tie at 21 letters: anthropomorphizations, antiauthoritarianisms and antiferromagnetically.

They run from 2 to 21 letters; 283 of them have 9 letters, more than any other length.

233 of them — 12% — are in the everyday tier; the rest are filed as rarer.

Every one of them contains each of A and N.

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

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Longer openings that begin with AN

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.