Words starting with SQ

Every word in the dictionary whose first 2 letters are SQ — 255 of 172,823.

Words

255

Everyday

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Longest

152 words tie

Shortest

57 words tie

2 words tie at 15 letters: squeamishnesses and squeezabilities.

They run from 5 to 15 letters; 69 of them have 9 letters, more than any other length.

85 of them — 33% — are in the everyday tier; the rest are filed as rarer.

Every one of them contains each of Q, S and U.

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

• SQU255

• All S…18,988
• 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.