8-Letter Words

This page contains a list of all 42,150 words with 8 letters in the English language. The best way to utilize this list is with our WordFinder word tool, which can give you a list of all possible words you can use based on multiple criteria, such as length, included/excluded letters, Scrabble points you can get, etc.

List of all 8-letter words in the English language

42,150 words in the English language are 8-letter words, which is around 15.10% of all words. This makes 8-letter words the second largest group in English, trailing only 9-letter words. Along with this, words with 8 letters also account for 4.26% of all words used in everyday communication.

Considering their size, 8-letter words possess a big potential for word games like Word Collect, Words of Wonders, 4 Pics 1 Word, and many others. In the following section, you can read which letter is the most common in this group, which letter is the most common starting and ending letter among 8-letter words, and what are the most frequently used 8-letter words in English.

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• List of all 8-letter words in the English language
• Most common letters in 8-letter words
• Most common starting letters in 8-letter words
• Most common ending letters in 8-letter words
• Most frequently used 8-letter words in English

What are the most common letters in 8-letter words?

• More than two-thirds of words with 8 letters contain at least one letter E, making it the most common letter in this group.
• Aside from E, there are three more letters that are contained in more than half of 8-letter words: 59.31% of them contain the letter S, 54.86% contain the letter I, and 50.72% of them contain the letter A.
• On the flip side, only 1.41% of words with 8 letters contain the letter J, making it the least common letter in this group.
• 1.50% of 8-letter words contain Q, 2.21% contain X, and 2.87% contain the letter Z.

The most common starting letters in 8-letter words

• 12.71% of 8-letter words start with the letter S, the most common starting word in this group.
• 8.88% of words with 8 letters start with the letter C, 7.85% start with P, B is the starting letter for 6.62% of 8-letter words, and 5.49% of them start with R.
• Together, these words account for more than 40% of all starting letters in 8-letter words.
• It’s interesting that only 17.86% of words with 8 letters start with one of the vowels.
• Only 38 words with 8 letters, 0.09% of them, start with the letter X, the least common starting letter among this group.

Most common ending letters among 8-letter words

• Over 35.06% of 8-letter words end with the letter S, making it the most common ending letter of this group.
• Additionally, 11.09% of words with 8 letters end with the letter E, 10.93% end with D, and 7.19% end with G.
• These four letters end more than 64% of all 8-letter words.
• There are no 8-letter words that end in J or Q.
• Only 5 words with 8 letters end in V, 8 of them end with the letter Z, and 37 end with U.

What are the most common 8-letter words in the English language?

As already mentioned, words with 8 letters account for just over 4% of all words used during everyday communication, even though they account for more than 15% of all words in the vocabulary.

• The most commonly used 8-letter word is the verb INCREASE, accounting for 1.23% of all 8-letter words used and 0.05% of all words overall.
• It is followed by another verb, CONSIDER, accounting for 1.17% of all 8-letter words.
• 61.41% of all 8-letter words are either nouns or proper nouns, 16.39% are verbs, and 17.16% are adjectives.
• In terms of frequency of use, nouns and proper nouns account for more than 60% of all 8-letter words used in the everyday language, followed by verbs with 16.53% and adjectives with 15.82%.