Words starting with X

Every word in the dictionary whose first letter is X — 136 of 172,823.

Words
136
Everyday
3in the size-ranked core
Longest
17xeroradiographies
Shortest
22 words tie

What is in this list

The longest is xeroradiographies at 17 letters.

They run from 2 to 17 letters; 20 of them have 8 letters, more than any other length.

3 of them — 2% — are in the everyday tier; the rest are filed as rarer.

Every one of them contains an X.

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

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Longer openings that begin with X

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.