Words starting with PEN

Every word in the dictionary whose first 3 letters are PEN — 296 of 172,823.

Words

296

Everyday

63in the size-ranked core

Longest

182 words tie

Shortest

3pen

2 words tie at 18 letters: pentachlorophenols and pentylenetetrazols.

They run from 3 to 18 letters; 50 of them have 9 letters, more than any other length.

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

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

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

• PEN296
• PER785

• All PE…1,928
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Ordered everyday words first, then alphabetical inside each group — the same rule on every list here. At most 300 are printed on one page.