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8 Letter Words With These Letters

Enter your letters and get every 8-letter word you can spell with them, ranked by score. Below the tool is the full list of 40,649 eight-letter words in the dictionary.

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How do I find 8 letter words with these letters?

Type your letters into the finder above and it lists every 8-letter word they spell, highest-scoring first. Use ? for a blank tile. There are 40,649 eight-letter words in this dictionary of English. The most common include POSITION, SEPARATE, INTEREST, TRANSFER, OPPOSITE, and one of the highest-scoring is BUZZWORD at 32 points.

Total words
40,649
Word length
8 letters
Top score
32 pts
Most common
POSITION

Common eight-letter words

Showing the 600 most common of 40,649. Click any word for its definition, score and anagrams.

8 letter words by starting letter

8 letter words with A21828 letter words with B26588 letter words with C36158 letter words with D21938 letter words with E16538 letter words with F18358 letter words with G14418 letter words with H14208 letter words with I9638 letter words with J3288 letter words with K5168 letter words with L12618 letter words with M21138 letter words with N7758 letter words with O13018 letter words with P31898 letter words with Q2298 letter words with R22508 letter words with S51638 letter words with T21968 letter words with U12598 letter words with V6918 letter words with W10818 letter words with X388 letter words with Y1268 letter words with Z173

Why eight-letter words matter

Words of this length are where the big scores live. Playing all seven tiles from your rack in one turn earns a 50-point bingo bonus in Scrabble, so recognising eight-letter patterns from a jumbled rack is worth more than any single high-value tile.

The list above is ranked by how common each word is in written English rather than alphabetically, using corpus frequency data. That means the words most likely to be accepted without an argument, and most likely to be useful, appear first.

Finding eight-letter words from your own letters

Browsing a full list is useful for study, but during a game you need the intersection of the list and your rack. Enter your tiles into the finder above and set the length to 8; the results are every eight-letter word your letters can actually build, ordered by points. Add a starting or ending letter if you are playing off a tile already on the board.

Other word lengths

2 letter words128 words3 letter words1,311 words4 letter words5,528 words5 letter words12,653 words6 letter words22,418 words7 letter words33,296 words9 letter words41,231 words10 letter words35,874 words11 letter words28,114 words12 letter words20,454 words13 letter words13,977 words14 letter words9,213 words15 letter words5,812 words

Frequently asked questions

How do I find 8 letter words with these letters?

Enter your letters in the box above and set the length filter to 8. The tool returns every 8-letter word that can be built from your letters, ranked by score. You can also require a starting letter, an ending letter or a letter that must appear somewhere in the word.

What is the highest-scoring 8 letter word?

Among 8-letter words, BUZZWORD is one of the highest scoring at 32 points in Scrabble. High-value 8-letter words almost always contain Q, Z, X or J.

What are some common 8 letter words?

Some of the most familiar eight-letter words are POSITION, SEPARATE, INTEREST, TRANSFER, OPPOSITE, PRACTICE, QUESTION, APPROACH. The list above is ordered by how common each word is, so the most recognisable ones appear first.

Are all 8 letter words valid in Scrabble?

Most are, but tournament play uses an official regional word list that differs slightly from a general English dictionary. For casual games this list works well; for sanctioned play, check the official dictionary for your region.