8-letter words
There are 28,345 eight-letter words in our word list. 1,807 of them are common everyday words, such as ANYTHING, BUSINESS, NATIONAL and ACTUALLY.
- Words
- 28,345
- Common words
- 1,807
- Top score
- ZYZZYVAS
- 44 points
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8-letter words (28,345)
- anything
- business
- national
- actually
- addition
- although
- building
- campaign
- children
- complete
- continue
- daughter
- decision
- director
- district
- economic
- election
- everyone
- evidence
- followed
- football
- happened
- hospital
- included
- increase
- industry
- interest
- involved
- language
- military
- minister
- official
- original
- personal
- position
- possible
- practice
- pressure
- previous
- probably
- problems
- products
- property
- provided
- question
- received
- recently
- released
- remember
- reported
- required
- research
- response
- security
- services
- specific
- standard
- starting
- straight
- students
- thinking
- together
- tomorrow
- training
- watching
- whatever
- yourself
- absolute
- academic
- accepted
- accident
- accounts
- accurate
- activity
- advanced
- affected
- agencies
- aircraft
- allowing
- analysis
- anywhere
- appeared
- approach
- approval
- approved
- argument
- arrested
- articles
- assembly
- attached
- attacked
- attempts
- attitude
- attorney
- audience
- baseball
- bathroom
- becoming
- behavior
- believed
- benefits
- birthday
- breaking
- bringing
- brothers
- capacity
- carrying
- category
- catholic
- chairman
- champion
- changing
- chemical
- citizens
- clinical
- combined
- comments
- compared
- computer
- concerns
- conflict
- congress
- consider
- constant
- consumer
- contains
- contract
- coverage
- creating
- creation
- creative
- criminal
- critical
- cultural
- customer
- declared
- delivery
- describe
- designed
- detailed
- directed
- directly
- distance
- division
- document
- domestic
- download
- drinking
- electric
- elements
- employee
- engineer
- entirely
- entitled
- examples
- exchange
- exciting
- exercise
- existing
- expected
- extended
- external
- facility
- familiar
- families
- favorite
- features
- feelings
- festival
- fighting
- finished
- friendly
- function
- governor
- graduate
- greatest
- honestly
- hundreds
- identify
- identity
- improved
- incident
- includes
- inspired
- instance
- intended
- interior
- internal
- laughing
- launched
- learning
- location
- magazine
- maintain
- majority
- marriage
- material
- measures
- medicine
- memories
- messages
- millions
- ministry
- mountain
- movement
- multiple
- negative
- normally
- northern
- numerous
- occurred
- offering
- officers
- opposite
- painting
- partners
- patients
- physical
- pictures
- planning
- platform
- pleasure
- policies
- politics
- positive
- possibly
- powerful
- pregnant
- prepared
- presence
- princess
- produced
- programs
- progress
- projects
- properly
- proposed
- provides
- purchase
- purposes
- reaction
- realized
- recorded
- recovery
- referred
- regional
- register
- relevant
- religion
- remained
- replaced
- republic
- requires
- returned
- revealed
- schedule
- selected
- sentence
- separate
- shipping
- shooting
- shopping
- shoulder
- sleeping
- slightly
- software
- soldiers
- solution
- somebody
- somewhat
- southern
- speaking
- spending
- standing
- stations
- strategy
- strength
- stronger
- struggle
- suddenly
- suffered
- supposed
- surprise
- teachers
- teaching
- terrible
- thoughts
- thousand
- transfer
- ultimate
- universe
- valuable
- vehicles
- violence
- whenever
- abortion
- abstract
- accuracy
- achieved
- acquired
- actively
- activist
- adequate
- adjacent
- adjusted
- admitted
- adoption
- adorable
- advances
- advisory
- advocate
- airlines
- alliance
- aluminum
- animated
- announce
- annoying
- annually
- answered
- apparent
- applying
- archives
- arranged
- arriving
- artistic
- assigned
- assisted
- assuming
- athletes
- athletic
- attended
- aviation
- avoiding
- bacteria
- balanced
- barriers
- basement
- believes
- belonged
- benjamin
- bleeding
- blessing
- blocking
- boundary
- branches
- breeding
- calendar
- calories
- cannabis
- captured
- carriers
- catching
- cemetery
- ceremony
- chambers
- channels
- chapters
- charging
- charming
- cheating
- checking
- choosing
- churches
- civilian
- claiming
- cleaning
- clearing
- climbing
- clothing
- coaching
- collapse
- colleges
- colonial
- colorado
- comeback
- commerce
- commonly
- complain
- composed
- compound
- concepts
- concrete
- confused
- congrats
- consists
- contacts
- contents
- contrary
- contrast
- controls
- convince
- counties
- counting
- courtesy
- covering
- creature
- criteria
- crossing
- cultures
- currency
- darkness
- database
- deadline
- deciding
- declined
- decrease
- defeated
- defended
- defender
- delicate
- demanded
- democrat
- deployed
- deposits
- deserved
- deserves
- designer
- detected
- diabetes
- dialogue
- diameter
- diamonds
- disabled
- disagree
- disaster
- discount
- discover
- diseases
- disorder
- displays
- disposal
- distinct
- divorced
- dominant
- donation
- downtown
- dramatic
- drawings
- dressing
- dropping
- duration
- dynamics
- earliest
- earnings
- educated
- egyptian
- elephant
- elevated
- eligible
- emerging
- emotions
- emphasis
- employed
- employer
- engaging
- enhanced
- enjoying
- enormous
- ensuring
- entering
- entrance
- episodes
- equality
- equation
- equipped
- estimate
- evaluate
- everyday
- examined
- executed
- expanded
- expenses
- explains
- exposure
- fabulous
- faithful
- featured
- feedback
- feminist
- fighters
- findings
- flexible
- floating
- focusing
- forecast
- formally
- formerly
- franklin
- freaking
- freezing
- frequent
- gambling
- gathered
- generate
- generous
- glorious
- goodness
- gorgeous
- graphics
- grateful
- guardian
- guidance
- handling
- handsome
- hardware
- headline
- heritage
- historic
- holdings
- holidays
- homeless
- homework
- horrible
- humanity
- ideology
- ignorant
- ignoring
- imagined
- imperial
- indicate
- indirect
- infected
- infinite
- informed
- injuries
- innocent
- insisted
- interact
- intimate
- invasion
- invented
- invested
- involves
- isolated
- judgment
- judicial
- keyboard
- kindness
- laughter
- liberals
- licensed
- lifetime
- lighting
- likewise
- listened
- literary
- machines
- magnetic
- managers
- managing
- marathon
- marshall
- matching
- meantime
- measured
- medieval
- meetings
- memorial
- mentally
- mentions
- merchant
- midnight
- minority
- missions
- mistakes
- mobility
- moderate
- modified
- momentum
- monetary
- monsters
- moreover
- mortgage
- murdered
- musician
- neighbor
- networks
- nonsense
- nowadays
- observed
- obsessed
- obtained
- occasion
- occupied
- operated
- operates
- operator
- opinions
- opponent
- opposing
- ordering
- ordinary
- oriented
- outcomes
- overcome
- overseas
- overview
- packages
- paradise
- parallel
Darker borders mark common everyday words. Rarer words follow in each group.
Questions
How many eight-letter words are there?
Our word list has 28,345 eight-letter words. 1,807 of them are common everyday words.
What are some common eight-letter words?
The most common are ANYTHING, BUSINESS, NATIONAL, ACTUALLY, ADDITION and ALTHOUGH.
Which eight-letter word scores the most points?
Using standard letter tile values, ZYZZYVAS scores 44 points, the most of any eight-letter word in our list.
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