Words Ending In These Letters

Did you know that only 12 words in the English language end with the letter J? Or that the average word that ends with Z is worth over 20 points in Scrabble and Words With Friends? On this page, you can find the list of all groups of words that end in a specific letter or group of letters, and getting familiar with them will do wonders for you when faced with the situation of forming the word based on the ending letter.

The lists of words presented on this page work best in combination with our WordFinder tool, which can help you with the additional filtering of the potential words to play. You can include/exclude specific letters and choose a particular length of desired words.

Table of contents

• 1-letter ending combos
• 2-letter ending combos
• 3-letter ending combos
• 4-letter ending combos
• 5-letter ending combos and others

1-letter ending combos

2-letter ending combos

3-letter ending combos

4-letter ending combos

5-letter ending combos

In most word games, the ability to expand and add letters to the existing word can get players the easiest points they can earn while using the opponent’s letters in the process. This is because most of the words out there can be extended by some type of suffix. Make sure you don’t make a mistake a play a word that has a longer form, which your opponent can expand on.

For example, if you play the word PLAY, worth 9 points in Scrabble, your opponent can capitalize on that by adding:

• The letter S at the end, making PLAYS and get 10 for that
• Add ER and make PLAYER, worth 11 points
• Add ING to your word and get 13 points

How many words end with each of the letters?

By far, the most common ending letter in the Scrabble dictionary is S, as over 38% of all Scrabble words end with this letter. This is not a surprise, considering that most of the nouns have a regular plural form, which means they end with S. So for every noun existing in the dictionary, the chances are there is a plural ending with S.

After S, the most common ending letter in the English dictionary is E, as over 10% of all words end with this letter. D ends 8.83% of all words, G ends 7.15%, and Y ends 7.10%.

The average length of each of these groups can vary significantly – the longest group is words ending with C, as the average word from this group is over 10 letters long. On the other side, words ending with J are only 4.5 letters long on average.

However, as we already discussed in our analysis of words by length (LINK), playing shorter words doesn’t necessarily mean earning fewer points. While words ending with Z are “only” 5.35 letters long on average, each letter is worth more than 3.96 points. Compare that to words ending with T, which are almost 9 letters long on average, but each letter is worth 1.54 points.

What are the most popular ending letters in English?

Around 16% of all words used during everyday communication end with the letter S, making it the most common ending letter in terms of frequency of use. Around 15% of all words used during the day end with the letter E, and 10% of all words end with the letter T.

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