Words starting with BE

Every word in the dictionary whose first 2 letters are BE — 1,749 of 172,823.

Words
1,749
Everyday
347in the size-ranked core
Longest
163 words tie
Shortest
2be

Showing the first 300 of 1,749, everyday words first and alphabetical inside each group. The longer openings below cut this list into readable pieces.

What is in this list

3 words tie at 16 letters: beneficialnesses, benevolentnesses and bewilderednesses.

They run from 2 to 16 letters; 379 of them have 8 letters, more than any other length.

347 of them — 20% — are in the everyday tier; the rest are filed as rarer.

Every one of them contains each of B and E.

The one furthest down the tiers is becudgelling, filed in the unranked list.

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Longer openings that begin with BE

Elsewhere

Ordered everyday words first, then alphabetical inside each group — the same rule on every list here. At most 300 are printed on one page.