Words starting with SHI

Every word in the dictionary whose first 3 letters are SHI — 260 of 172,823.

Words

260

Everyday

55in the size-ranked core

Longest

15shiftlessnesses

Shortest

45 words tie

The longest is shiftlessnesses at 15 letters.

They run from 4 to 15 letters; 63 of them have 8 letters, more than any other length.

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

Every one of them contains each of H, I and S.

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

• SHA382
• SHE251
• SHI260
• SHO313

• All SH…1,459
• 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.