This list contains letter frequency for 8 letter Scrabble words.
How many 8 letter words are there?
TWL Scrabble dictionary contains
31475 eight letter words, that is
16.78% of all words.
Scrabble Collins dictionary contains
40161 eight letter words, that is
15% of all words.
Frequency of letters in 8 letter words
- 68.28% contains E
- 58.25% contains S
- 54.28% contains I
- 50.84% contains A
- 49.29% contains R
- 42.45% contains N
- 41.43% contains T
- 40.17% contains O
- 38.61% contains L
- 27.99% contains D
- 27.15% contains C
- 25.77% contains U
- 21.04% contains G
- 20.35% contains M
- 20.33% contains P
- 18.08% contains H
- 16.01% contains B
- 11.83% contains Y
- 10.16% contains F
- 9.59% contains K
- 8.25% contains W
- 7.33% contains V
- 2.79% contains Z
- 2.27% contains X
- 1.46% contains Q
Letter frequency counts for eight letter Scrabble words clearly show that these words most often contain the letters
E, S, I, A, R and least often the letter
X. Letter distributions of 8-letter words are an useful resource for Scrabble players.
Starting letter frequencies of 8 letter words
- 12.36% starts with S
- 9.22% starts with C
- 7.75% starts with P
- 6.57% starts with B
- 5.79% starts with R
- 5.48% starts with A
- 5.44% starts with D
- 5.42% starts with T
- 5.23% starts with M
- 4.59% starts with F
- 3.83% starts with E
- 3.53% starts with G
- 3.48% starts with H
- 3.32% starts with O
- 3.18% starts with L
- 2.89% starts with U
- 2.63% starts with W
- 2.47% starts with I
- 1.95% starts with N
- 1.7% starts with V
- 1.16% starts with K
- 0.78% starts with J
- 0.55% starts with Q
- 0.31% starts with Z
- 0.28% starts with Y
- 0.07% starts with X
Eight letter words begin most frequently with these letters
S, C, P, B and R.
Ending letter frequencies of 8 letter words
- 34.27% ends in S
- 11.25% ends in E
- 10.85% ends in D
- 7.09% ends in G
- 7.07% ends in R
- 6.17% ends in T
- 5.85% ends in Y
- 3.62% ends in N
- 3.14% ends in L
- 2.04% ends in C
- 1.84% ends in M
- 1.82% ends in A
- 1.51% ends in H
- 1.2% ends in K
- 0.54% ends in O
- 0.49% ends in P
- 0.41% ends in I
- 0.26% ends in W
- 0.25% ends in X
- 0.15% ends in F
- 0.09% ends in B
- 0.08% ends in U
- 0.02% ends in V
- 0.01% ends in Z
- 0% ends in Q
- 0% ends in J
Eight letter words end most frequently with these letters
S, E, D, G and R.
Frequencies of vowels and consonants in 8 letter words
Frequency of 8-letter
words with vowels:
23.56% of words(7414) contain 2 vowels,
53.73% of words(16912) contain 3 vowels,
21.1% of words(6642) contain 4 vowels,
1.05% of words(329) contain 5 vowels,
0.02% of words(5) contain 6 vowels.
Frequency of 8-letter
words with consonants:
0.02% of words(5) contain 2 consonants,
1.05% of words(329) contain 3 consonants,
21.1% of words(6642) contain 4 consonants,
53.72% of words(16909) contain 5 consonants,
23.56% of words(7414) contain 6 consonants,
0.56% of words(176) contain 7 consonants.
