Words starting with S

Every word in the dictionary whose first letter is S — 18,988 of 172,823.

Words
18,988
Everyday
4,633in the size-ranked core
Longest
22spectrophotometrically
Shortest
23 words tie

Showing the first 300 of 18,988, everyday words first and alphabetical inside each group. The longer openings below cut this list into readable pieces.

What is in this list

The longest is spectrophotometrically at 22 letters.

They run from 2 to 22 letters; 3,466 of them have 8 letters, more than any other length.

4,633 of them — 24% — are in the everyday tier; the rest are filed as rarer.

Every one of them contains an S.

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

2
33
624
3535
1,0566
1,8017
2,6518
3,4669
2,90710
2,24711
1,56312
1,13213
71414
47115
25416
15817
7818
4719
1620
621
222
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Longer openings that begin with S

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.