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8 Letter Words Starting With N

There are 817 eight-letter words starting with N. 538 of them are playable in Scrabble or Words With Friends, 14 are everyday English, and the highest scorer is nuzzling at 27 points.

The words

The 400 most common of 817, everyday words first. The word finder below reaches all of them.

Everyday words 14

Word-game words 386

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
817
Playable in Scrabble or Words With Friends
538 (66%)
Everyday words
14
Archaic or rare
279
Highest Scrabble score
nuzzling at 27
Average Scrabble score
11.6
Letters that turn up most
N 100%, E 63%, O 58%, I 53%, A 49%, S 45%

Questions

How many 8 letter words start with N?
817, across every dictionary this site merges. 14 of those are everyday English, 524 are valid in word games without being words you would say out loud, and 279 come from Webster's 1913 and are largely obsolete.
Which of them are valid in Scrabble?
538 appear in ENABLE, the word list Scrabble and Words With Friends programs check against. The 279 archaic entries are shown last and labelled, because a word game will usually reject them.
What is the highest-scoring 8 letter word that start with N?
nuzzling, worth 27 in Scrabble and 32 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: national, networks, northern, negative, notebook, normally, numerous, navigate. The list below is in that order, so the words you are most likely to want come first.

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