This list holds 24,863 words, 14.4% of the 172,634 words this site keeps from the ENABLE word list. Every word here has 9 letters, and they average 9 letters by construction — so the interesting differences are in which letters they use. Of the 14 lists in this group it is the second largest: “8 letter words” leads with 28,394 and “2 letter words” has the fewest, 96. 10 words that would also fit were left out by this site's blocklist of slurs and explicit words.

Points and vowels

Using this site's letter values, the average word here scores 15.4 points (median 15); words of the same lengths across the whole list average 15.4, so this list scores the same as the dictionary. The top scorers are QUIZZICAL (35), SHOWBIZZY (35), WHIZZBANG (34), EQUIVOQUE (33). Point for point, QUIZZICAL earns the most per letter: 35 points over 9 letters, 3.9 each.

Vowels (A, E, I, O, U) make up 37.5% of the letters, against 38% across the whole list. 1,267 words are more than half vowels.

How the words are built

5,882 words have a doubled letter (23.7%); the most common doubles are LL (1,273), SS (1,169), OO (709). The most common three-letter openings are OUT- (281, as in OUTACTING), PRE- (248, as in PREACHERS), OVE- (246, as in OVENBIRDS). The most common endings are -ING (2,293, as in ABDUCTING), -ERS (1,097, as in ABHORRERS), -TED (532, as in ABDICATED). 39.1% end in a single S — mostly plurals and verb forms of shorter words.

Word play in this list

The biggest anagram family here is CENTIARES, CISTERNAE, CREATINES, ITERANCES and NECTARIES — 5 words from the same 9 letters. Altogether 1,316 sets of anagrams sit inside this list, covering 2,792 words. AARDVARKS is the longest word here that uses only one kind of vowel, ahead of ABRADANTS.

23.4% of these words take an S on the end and stay a word (ABANDONER, ABASEMENT and ABASHMENT among them); after S, the most useful end letter is D, which extends 691 words. At the front, P turns 114 words into new ones (ALIMONIES → PALIMONIES); S turns 48 words into new ones (CRAGGIEST → SCRAGGIEST); A turns 31 words into new ones (BACTERIAL → ABACTERIAL).

Using this list

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