Words containing A

Our dictionary holds 152,221 words containing a, ranging from 2 to 28 letters. The highest-scoring of them is RAZZAMATAZZES, worth 51 points in Scrabble.

More of these words begin with A than any other letter — 16,124 of them, about 11% of the list.

7,474 appear in the 20,000 most common English words (5%), including and, that, are, at, as; the remaining 144,747 are rarer finds that still count as valid plays.