Words starting with CAN

Every word in the dictionary whose first 3 letters are CAN — 399 of 172,823.

Words
399
Everyday
90in the size-ranked core
Longest
18cantankerousnesses
Shortest
3can

Showing the first 300 of 399, everyday words first and alphabetical inside each group. Use the finder with a length filter to reach the rest.

What is in this list

The longest is cantankerousnesses at 18 letters.

They run from 3 to 18 letters; 71 of them have 8 letters, more than any other length.

90 of them — 23% — are in the everyday tier; the rest are filed as rarer.

Every one of them contains each of A, C and N.

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

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Other openings of 3 letters

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.