10-Letter Words

On this page, you can find a full list of 37,235 10-letter words in the English language, followed by a detailed analysis of the most common letters in this group. To go through such a huge list of words, certain filtering is required, and our WordsFinder tool has all the advanced filtering tools available for this task.

List of 10-letter words

In the English language, there are 37,235 words with 10 letters, accounting for 13.30% of all words. This makes 10-letter words the third largest group of words in English. Considering that the average 10-letter word is worth 16.18 points in Scrabble, these words are very valuable assets in this game, as well as Words With Friends and similar word games.

On this page

• List of 10-letter words
• Most common letters in 10-letter words
• Most common starting letters in 10-letter words
• Most common ending letters in 10-letter words
• Most common 10-letter words in the English language

What are the most common letters in 10-letter words?

• More than three-quarters of 10-letter words contain the letter E, which is the most common letter in this group of words.
• 67.37% of words with 10 letters contain the letter I, 67.10% of them contain S, 58.72% contain R, and 58.20% of 10-letter words contain A.
• More than 50% of 10-letter words contain letters N, T, and O as well.
• J is the least common letter in 10-letter words, appearing in only 1.36% of all words from this group.
• 1.68% of 10-letter words contain the letter Q, 2.85% contain X, and 4.40% contain the letter Z.

What are the most common starting letters in 10-letter words?

• One in nine words with 10 letters starts with the letter S (11.50%), the most common starting letter among this group of words.
• 9.34% of 10-letter words start with the letter P, 9.33% start with C, and 6.09% start with M.
• One-third of all 10-letter words start with one of the above-mentioned letters.
• While only 0.64% of 10-letter words start with the letter J, this accounts for more than 47.43% of occurrences of this letter among 10-letter words. This is the highest share of starting positions among letters in this group.

What are the most common ending letters in 10-letter words?

• Over 42.39% of all words with 10 letters end with the letter S, which is by far the most common ending letter in this group of words.
• Also, 63.18% of occurrences of the letter S in 10-letter words are as the ending letter.
• 9.88% of 10-letter words end with the letter E, 9.53% end with D, 8.94% end with G, and 6.44% end with Y.
• Over 77% of all words with 10 letters end with one of the five above-mentioned letters.
• On the other hand, there are no 10-letter words that end with J, Q, or V.

What are the most commonly used 10-letter words in the English language?

While over 13% of all English words are 10 letters long, these words are not among the most frequently used words in the everyday language. In fact, only 2.03% of all words used in the regular communication are 10-letter words.

• The most frequently used 10-letter word is GOVERNMENT, accounting for just over 0.06% of all words used during the day.
• UNIVERSITY is the next on the list, accounting for 0.04% of all words and 1.93% of all 10-letter words used.
• The verb UNDERSTAND accounts for 1.78% of all 10-letter words used, EXPERIENCE accounts for 1.77%, and ESPECIALLY for 1.20% of all 10-letter words.
• Almost 58% of all 10-letter words are either nouns or proper nouns, 22.78% are adjectives, 11.54% are verbs, and 7.39% are adverbs.
• Frequency-wise, nouns and proper nouns account for close to 66% of all 10-letter words used, adjectives account for 16.67%, adverbs account for 8.13%, and verbs account for 7.85%.

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