Words starting with H

Every word in the dictionary whose first letter is H — 6,303 of 172,823.

Words
6,303
Everyday
1,343in the size-ranked core
Longest
23hexamethylenetetramines
Shortest
25 words tie

Showing the first 300 of 6,303, everyday words first and alphabetical inside each group. The longer openings below cut this list into readable pieces.

What is in this list

The longest is hexamethylenetetramines at 23 letters.

They run from 2 to 23 letters; 982 of them have 8 letters, more than any other length.

1,343 of them — 21% — are in the everyday tier; the rest are filed as rarer.

Every one of them contains an H.

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

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Longer openings that begin with H

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.