Words starting with MAL

Every word in the dictionary whose first 3 letters are MAL — 238 of 172,823.

Words
238
Everyday
38in the size-ranked core
Longest
182 words tie
Shortest
44 words tie

What is in this list

2 words tie at 18 letters: maladministrations and malcontentednesses.

They run from 4 to 18 letters; 35 of them have 8 letters, more than any other length.

38 of them — 16% — are in the everyday tier; the rest are filed as rarer.

Every one of them contains each of A, L and M.

The one furthest down the tiers is malaromas, 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.