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6 Letter Words Starting With W

There are 643 six-letter words starting with W. 454 of them are playable in Scrabble or Words With Friends, 38 are everyday English, and the highest scorer is wizzen at 27 points.

The words

The 400 most common of 643, everyday words first. The word finder below reaches all of them.

Everyday words 38

Word-game words 362

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
643
Playable in Scrabble or Words With Friends
454 (71%)
Everyday words
38
Archaic or rare
189
Highest Scrabble score
wizzen at 27
Average Scrabble score
12.3
Letters that turn up most
W 100%, E 64%, A 43%, I 42%, R 36%, L 29%

Questions

How many 6 letter words start with W?
643, across every dictionary this site merges. 38 of those are everyday English, 416 are valid in word games without being words you would say out loud, and 189 come from Webster's 1913 and are largely obsolete.
Which of them are valid in Scrabble?
453 appear in ENABLE, the word list Scrabble and Words With Friends programs check against. The 189 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 W?
wizzen, worth 27 in Scrabble and 28 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: within, window, weight, wanted, winter, weekly, worked, writer. The list below is in that order, so the words you are most likely to want come first.

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