Words starting with V

Every word in the dictionary whose first letter is V — 2,735 of 172,823.

Words
2,735
Everyday
570in the size-ranked core
Longest
184 words tie
Shortest
321 words tie

Showing the first 300 of 2,735, everyday words first and alphabetical inside each group. The longer openings below cut this list into readable pieces.

What is in this list

4 words tie at 18 letters: vaingloriousnesses, valetudinarianisms, verisimilitudinous and videoconferencings.

They run from 3 to 18 letters; 493 of them have 8 letters, more than any other length.

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

Every one of them contains an V.

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

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Longer openings that begin with V

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.