Words containing W

Our dictionary holds 17,875 words containing w, ranging from 2 to 21 letters. The highest-scoring of them is ZWISCHENZUGS, worth 39 points in Scrabble.

More of these words begin with W than any other letter — 5,681 of them, about 32% of the list.

994 appear in the 20,000 most common English words (6%), including with, new, was, we, will; the remaining 16,881 are rarer finds that still count as valid plays.