Words starting with SH

Every word in the dictionary whose first 2 letters are SH — 1,459 of 172,823.

Words
1,459
Everyday
409in the size-ranked core
Longest
18shortsightednesses
Shortest
2sh

Showing the first 300 of 1,459, 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 shortsightednesses at 18 letters.

They run from 2 to 18 letters; 308 of them have 8 letters, more than any other length.

409 of them — 28% — are in the everyday tier; the rest are filed as rarer.

Every one of them contains each of H and S.

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

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Longer openings that begin with SH

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.