Words starting with HE

Every word in the dictionary whose first 2 letters are HE — 1,422 of 172,823.

Words
1,422
Everyday
267in the size-ranked core
Longest
23hexamethylenetetramines
Shortest
2he

Showing the first 300 of 1,422, everyday words first and alphabetical inside each group. The longer openings below cut this list into readable pieces.

What is in this list

The longest is hexamethylenetetramines at 23 letters.

They run from 2 to 23 letters; 218 of them have 8 letters, more than any other length.

267 of them — 19% — are in the everyday tier; the rest are filed as rarer.

Every one of them contains each of E and H.

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

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Longer openings that begin with HE

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.