12 letter words

The list contains 1,351 common English words with exactly 12 letters; the most frequent are relationship, professional, construction and particularly. The most common first letter is C (186 words), the most common last letter S (324 words).

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Word list: SCOWL (Spell Checker Oriented Word Lists by Kevin Atkinson; wordlist.aspell.net), size 60, US and British spellings, lower-case words a–z only (no names or abbreviations), including plurals and verb forms; of these only words with a frequency of at least 2.5 on the Zipf scale (about 3 in 10 million words) in the frequency list wordfreq by Robyn Speer (data CC BY-SA 4.0; origin and processing), sorted by that frequency. Counted are the letters a–z. Licence of these lists: GNU GPL version 3 or later (GPL-3.0, SCOWL copyright notice). Raw list as a text file (word and frequency value): haeufig-12.txt.

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