4-Letter Words

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List of all 4-letter words in the English language

There are 5,638 words with 4 letters in English, accounting for 2% of all words in the dictionary. However, even though small in numbers, 4-letter words account for over 16% of all words used in everyday communication.

We report a detailed analysis of the most common letters in 4-letter words, including starting and ending letters, and the most valuable 4-letter words for various word games like Words With Friends, Word of Wonders, Word Cookies, 4 Pics 1 Word, Scrabble, and many others.

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• List of all 4-letter words in the English language
• Most common letters in 4-letter words
• Most common starting letters in 4-letter words
• Most common ending letters in 4-letter words
• Most frequently used 4-letter words in English

What are the most common letters in 4-letter words?

• The letter A appears in 1,992 words with 4 letters, meaning that over 35% of all 4-letter words contain the letter A.
• 33.42% of all 4-letter words (2,128) contain at least one letter E, making it the second most common letter in the group.
• The letter S appears in 1,917 (31.57%) 4-letter words, O appears in 1,756 (27.81%), and 1,314 (22.65%) 4-letter words contain the letter I.
• On the other hand, only 25 words with 4-letters contain the letter Q, the least common letter in 4-letter words.
• In terms of frequency, the letter A is also the most frequent letter in 4-letter words, accounting for 9.52% of all letters.
• Close to 37% of all letters in 4-letter words are vowels.

What are the most common starting letters in 4-letter words?

• 495 words with 4-letter start with the letter S, which is around 8.78% of all 4-letter words. This makes S the most common starting letter in this group of words.
• The letter T is a starting letter in 359 (6.38%) of 4-letter words, 354 (6.28%) of them start with the letter B, 350 (6.21%) start with P, and 329 (5.84%) 4-letter words start with the letter D.
• It’s interesting that only 13% of 4-letter words start with the vowel.
• Only 2 words with 4 letters start with X, making it the least common starting letter.

What are the most common ending letters in 4-letter words?

• Over one-fifth of 4-letter words end with the letter S, the most common ending letter in this group. 1,129 words with 4 letters end with S.
• The next most common ending letter in 4-letter words is E (12.40% of words), followed by T (7.77% of words).
• 327 (5.80%) of 4-letter words end with the letter A, and 299 words (5.30%) end with D.
• There is only one word with 4 letters that ends with Q, making it the least common ending letter in this group.

What are the most common words with 4 letters?

In total, 4-letter words account for around 16.00% of all words used in everyday conversation and communication. This is despite the fact that 4-letter words account for only 2% of all words in the English language. Among this group, the most common words are:

• HAVE, which accounts for 1.04% of all words used daily, is the most common 4-letter word in English.
• It is followed by THAT (0.94%), WITH (0.75%), FROM (0.52%), and THIS (0.44%).
• Over 70% of 4-letter words are nouns and proper nouns, yet they only account for 18% of all 4-letter words used every day.
• 14.53% of words with 4 letters are verbs, accounting for 16.97% of all 4-letter words used in everyday communication.
• Adpositions are the most used type of 4-letter words, with a frequency of 12.18%.