Words starting with IL

Every word in the dictionary whose first 2 letters are IL — 162 of 172,823.

Words
162
Everyday
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Longest
173 words tie
Shortest
32 words tie

What is in this list

3 words tie at 17 letters: illimitablenesses, illusionistically and illustriousnesses.

They run from 3 to 17 letters; 11 and 12 letters tie for the most common length, 24 words each.

35 of them — 22% — are in the everyday tier; the rest are filed as rarer.

Every one of them contains each of I and L.

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

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Other openings of 2 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.