Words starting with SO

Every word in the dictionary whose first 2 letters are SO — 1,226 of 172,823.

Words
1,226
Everyday
278in the size-ranked core
Longest
183 words tie
Shortest
2so

Showing the first 300 of 1,226, everyday words first and alphabetical inside each group. The longer openings below cut this list into readable pieces.

What is in this list

3 words tie at 18 letters: sociopsychological, somnambulistically and soporiferousnesses.

They run from 2 to 18 letters; 203 of them have 8 letters, more than any other length.

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

Every one of them contains each of O and S.

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

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Longer openings that begin with SO

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.