Words starting with A

There are 10,199 words starting with A in our word list. 868 of them are common everyday words, such as AND, ALL, ARE and AS. They range from 2 to 15 letters, and 8-letter words are the biggest group, with 1,614.

Words: 10,199
Common words: 868
Longest: ACCOMPLISHMENTS; 15 letters
Top score: AZIDOTHYMIDINES; 34 points

Many A words begin with a prefix borrowed from Latin or Greek, such as AB- (away from), AD- (toward), ANTI- (against) and AUTO- (self).

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2-letter words (16)

3-letter words (70)

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4-letter words (191)

also
away
able
anti
area
army
acts
aged
ages
arms
arts
acid
adds
aids
aims
alan
ally
anna
arch
asks
aunt
auto
axis
acne
acre
aide
airs
akin
alas
alec
alma
alps
amen
amid
ants
apex
arse
atom
atop
aura
avid
abba
aces
ache

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5-letter words (496)

about
after
again
above
added
ahead
album
allow
alone
along
among
areas
asked
abuse
actor
admit
adult
agent
agree
alive
angry
apart
apple
apply
armed
aside
avoid
award
aware
acres
acted
acute
adopt
aging
aimed
alarm
alert
alien
alike
alpha
alter
angel
anger
angle

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6-letter words (827)

always
around
access
across
action
almost
amount
answer
anyone
attack
august
accept
acting
active
actual
adding
adults
advice
affect
afford
afraid
agency
agents
agreed
allows
amazon
animal
annual
anyway
appeal
appear
arrest
artist
asking
assets
assume
attend
author
awards
aboard
abroad
abused
accent
actors

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7-letter words (1,242)

against
already
another
account
allowed
amazing
article
average
ability
academy
achieve
actions
address
adopted
advance
affairs
airport
alcohol
ancient
animals
answers
anybody
anymore
appears
applied
arrived
artists
aspects
attacks
attempt
awesome
abandon
absence
accused
acquire
actress
adapted
admiral
advised
advisor
affects
airline
alleged
alright

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8-letter words (1,614)

anything
actually
addition
although
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
abortion
abstract
accuracy
achieved
acquired
actively
activist
adequate
adjacent
adjusted
admitted
adoption

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9-letter words (1,574)

according
attention
available
advantage
afternoon
agreement
announced
apartment
appointed
assistant
authority
abandoned
abilities
accepting
accidents
achieving
activated
activists
addiction
addressed
addresses
admission
adventure
aesthetic
affecting
alexander
algorithm
allegedly
alongside
alternate
ambulance
amendment
animation
anonymous
answering
apologize
appearing
architect
arguments
associate
attacking
attempted
attending
attitudes

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10-letter words (1,307)

absolutely
activities
additional
apparently
appearance
appreciate
assistance
associated
attractive
acceptable
acceptance
accessible
accomplish
accordance
accounting
adaptation
addressing
advantages
adventures
affordable
afterwards
aggressive
agreements
altogether
ambassador
apartments
applicable
approached
approaches
artificial
assessment
assignment
associates
assumption
atmosphere
attempting
attendance
attraction
attributed
authorized
abandoning
aboriginal
absorption
accelerate

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11-letter words (1,039)

association
advertising
alternative
anniversary
application
appropriate
authorities
accommodate
accompanied
accordingly
achievement
acknowledge
acquisition
agriculture
allegations
anticipated
appearances
appointment
appreciated
approaching
arrangement
accelerated
accessories
accountable
accumulated
accusations
adjustments
adolescents
advancement
advertisers
affiliation
affirmative
alterations
alternating
ambassadors
antibiotics
approximate
arbitration
archaeology
aspirations
assessments
assignments
assumptions
astonishing

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12-letter words (752)

applications
accidentally
accomplished
achievements
acknowledged
additionally
agricultural
alternatives
announcement
appreciation
architecture
arrangements
associations
availability
acceleration
accompanying
accumulation
acknowledges
acquaintance
acquisitions
administered
aggressively
anthropology
anticipation
appointments
authenticity
abbreviation
academically
accelerating
accommodated
accumulating
advancements
advantageous
aeronautical
affectionate
affiliations
alphabetical
amalgamation
annihilation
antagonistic
anticipating
appreciating
appreciative
apprehension

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13-letter words (520)

approximately
automatically
accommodation
administrator
accessibility
accreditation
acknowledging
advertisement
alternatively
announcements
appropriately
architectural
assassination
authoritarian
authorization
autobiography
abbreviations
abnormalities
accommodating
accompaniment
accomplishing
acquaintances
administering
aesthetically
affordability
amplification
antimicrobial
appropriation
approximation
archaeologist
architectures
authoritative
abolitionists
accelerometer
acceptability
accumulations
acetaminophen
acetylcholine
acidification
agglomeration
anachronistic
anniversaries
anthropogenic
antibacterial

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14-letter words (331)

administration
administrative
accomplishment
accountability
administrators
advertisements
aforementioned
archaeological
accommodations
acknowledgment
affectionately
alphabetically
anthropologist
apprenticeship
appropriations
archaeologists
attractiveness
authentication
aggressiveness
anesthesiology
antidepressant
approximations
arrondissement
assassinations
astrophysicist
absentmindedly
accelerometers
accompaniments
accreditations
adenocarcinoma
advantageously
aggrandizement
agriculturally
ambassadorship
anthropometric
anticoagulants
anticonvulsant
anticorruption
antihistamines
antimicrobials
antipsychotics
apolipoprotein
apologetically
astronomically

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15-letter words (220)

accomplishments
acknowledgement
administrations
anthropological
anthropologists
antidepressants
anthropomorphic
apprenticeships
appropriateness
architecturally
atherosclerosis
acclimatization
acknowledgments
aerodynamically
anticholinergic
anticompetitive
astrophysicists
atherosclerotic
authoritatively
autobiographies
autocorrelation
adenocarcinomas
adventurousness
agriculturalist
algorithmically
aluminosilicate
ambassadorships
anthropocentric
anticonvulsants
antiperspirants
approachability
arrondissements
assimilationist
atmospherically
autoradiography
acquisitiveness
agranulocytosis
alphabetization
antepenultimate
antiarrhythmics
anticlericalism
antimetabolites
apocalyptically
apolipoproteins

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Darker borders mark common everyday words. Rarer words follow in each group.

Questions

How many words starting with A are there?

Our word list has 10,199 words starting with A. 868 of them are common everyday words.

What is the longest word starting with A?

The longest have 15 letters, for example ACCOMPLISHMENTS, ACKNOWLEDGEMENT and ADMINISTRATIONS.

Which word starting with A scores the most points?

Using standard letter tile values, AZIDOTHYMIDINES scores 34 points, the most of any word starting with A in our list.