Words starting with IS

Every word in the dictionary whose first 2 letters are IS — 285 of 172,823.

Words

285

Everyday

18in the size-ranked core

Longest

17isoelectronically

Shortest

2is

The longest is isoelectronically at 17 letters.

They run from 2 to 17 letters; 66 of them have 8 letters, more than any other length.

18 of them — 6% — are in the everyday tier; the rest are filed as rarer.

Every one of them contains each of I and S.

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

• ISO218

• All I…6,978
• ends ACK
• ends ADS
• ends AGE
• ends ALS
• ends AMS
• ends AND
• ends ANS
• ends ANT
• ends ARD
• ends ARS
• ends ARY
• ends ASE

Ordered everyday words first, then alphabetical inside each group — the same rule on every list here. At most 300 are printed on one page.