Words starting with REF

Every word in the dictionary whose first 3 letters are REF — 414 of 172,823.

Words
414
Everyday
97in the size-ranked core
Longest
17refrangiblenesses
Shortest
3ref

Showing the first 300 of 414, everyday words first and alphabetical inside each group. Use the finder with a length filter to reach the rest.

What is in this list

The longest is refrangiblenesses at 17 letters.

They run from 3 to 17 letters; 72 of them have 9 letters, more than any other length.

97 of them — 23% — are in the everyday tier; the rest are filed as rarer.

Every one of them contains each of E, F and R.

The one furthest down the tiers is refocussing, 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.