Words starting with Q

Every word in the dictionary whose first letter is Q — 822 of 172,823.

Words
822
Everyday
207in the size-ranked core
Longest
185 words tie
Shortest
32 words tie

Showing the first 300 of 822, everyday words first and alphabetical inside each group. The longer openings below cut this list into readable pieces.

What is in this list

5 words tie at 18 letters, among them quantificationally, quantitativenesses and quasiperiodicities.

They run from 3 to 18 letters; 158 of them have 8 letters, more than any other length.

207 of them — 25% — are in the everyday tier; the rest are filed as rarer.

Every one of them contains an Q.

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

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Longer openings that begin with Q

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.