Words starting with ENC

Every word in the dictionary whose first 3 letters are ENC — 209 of 172,823.

Words
209
Everyday
56in the size-ranked core
Longest
22encephalomyocarditises
Shortest
68 words tie

What is in this list

The longest is encephalomyocarditises at 22 letters.

They run from 6 to 22 letters; 33 of them have 10 letters, more than any other length.

56 of them — 27% — are in the everyday tier; the rest are filed as rarer.

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

The one furthest down the tiers is encyclopaedias, 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.