Words starting with SEM

Every word in the dictionary whose first 3 letters are SEM — 281 of 172,823.

Words

281

Everyday

20in the size-ranked core

Longest

20semiautobiographical

Shortest

42 words tie

The longest is semiautobiographical at 20 letters.

They run from 4 to 20 letters; 44 of them have 10 letters, more than any other length.

20 of them — 7% — are in the everyday tier; the rest are filed as rarer.

Every one of them contains each of E, M and S.

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

• SEM281
• SEN227
• SER263

• All SE…1,866
• 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.