8 letter words

The list contains 5,373 common English words with exactly 8 letters; the most frequent are business, anything, national and actually. The most common first letter is S (684 words), the most common last letter S (1,377 words).

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Below are the 3,000 most frequent. The remaining 2,373 (rarer) load only on click (text file, about 73 KB); after that everything can be filtered and sorted.

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Source and licence

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-8.txt.

For word games such as Scrabble or crosswords this is a collection of common words, not an official game list: whether a word counts in a particular game is decided by its rules. No point values are given here.

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