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6 Letter Words Starting With I

There are 418 six-letter words starting with I. 285 of them are playable in Scrabble or Words With Friends, 28 are everyday English, and the highest scorer is izzard at 25 points.

The words

The 400 most common of 418, everyday words first. The word finder below reaches all of them.

Everyday words 28

Word-game words 257

Archaic and rare 115

What is in this list

Every word carries its Scrabble score; hover one to see its Words With Friends score, which differs because the two games value tiles differently. Both are raw tile totals and exclude double- and triple-letter squares, since those depend on where you put the word rather than on the word itself.

Words in total
418
Playable in Scrabble or Words With Friends
285 (68%)
Everyday words
28
Archaic or rare
133
Highest Scrabble score
izzard at 25
Average Scrabble score
9.2
Letters that turn up most
I 100%, N 62%, E 51%, S 37%, T 28%, A 28%

Questions

How many 6 letter words start with I?
418, across every dictionary this site merges. 28 of those are everyday English, 257 are valid in word games without being words you would say out loud, and 133 come from Webster's 1913 and are largely obsolete.
Which of them are valid in Scrabble?
285 appear in ENABLE, the word list Scrabble and Words With Friends programs check against. The 133 archaic entries are shown last and labelled, because a word game will usually reject them.
What is the highest-scoring 6 letter word that start with I?
izzard, worth 25 in Scrabble and 25 in Words With Friends. Both are raw tile values, before any double- or triple-letter square.
Which are the most common?
By frequency in ordinary English: issues, images, island, income, inside, impact, incest, itself. The list below is in that order, so the words you are most likely to want come first.

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