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12 Letter Words

There are 25,792 words of twelve letters. 11,358 are playable in Scrabble or Words With Friends, 198 are in everyday use, and the highest scorer is razzmatazzes at 50 points.

The words

The 400 most common of 25,792, everyday words first. The word finder below reaches all of them.

Everyday words 198

Word-game words 202

What is in this list

Every word shows its Scrabble score, with the Words With Friends score on hover. Both are raw tile totals: bonus squares depend on where a word is placed, not on the word.

Words in total
25,792
Playable in Scrabble or Words With Friends
11,358 (44%)
Everyday words
198
Archaic or rare
14,434
Highest Scrabble score
razzmatazzes at 50
Average Scrabble score
19.2
Letters that turn up most
E 77%, I 76%, A 67%, T 66%, N 65%, R 65%

Questions

How many 12 letter words are there?
25,792 across the dictionaries this site merges. 11,358 of those are playable in a word game; the remaining 14,434 come from Webster's 1913 and are largely obsolete. 198 are everyday English, which is the number that matters if you are trying to think of one rather than validate one.
Which 12 letter word scores highest in Scrabble?
razzmatazzes, at 50 points in Scrabble and 51 in Words With Friends. That is raw tile value, before any bonus square.
Are all of these valid in Scrabble?
11,358 of the 25,792 appear in ENABLE, the list Scrabble and Words With Friends programs validate against. Words outside it are shown last, dimmed and labelled, so you do not stake a turn on one.
What are the most common 12 letter words?
Ranked by how often they appear in ordinary English: professional, applications, requirements, construction, availability, organization, registration, distribution.

Search your own letters

The finder below is set to twelve letters. Type a rack and it will return every word of this length you can spell from it, or switch to a pattern and give the positions you know. It searches all 315,007 words, in your browser.

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