Word Gallery

Words With J

998 of them, all valid in ENABLE. Eight points, and much harder to place than the X.

The J scores as well as the X but hooks far less readily—there is no two-letter word containing it apart from jo. These are the words up to seven letters that use one.

The words

The 400 most common of 998, everyday words first. The word finder below reaches all of them.

Everyday words 76

Word-game words 324

What is in this list

Every entry here appears in ENABLE, so a word game will accept it. Scores are raw tile totals in Scrabble, with the Words With Friends score on hover—the two games value tiles differently, and the gap is largest exactly where it matters, on the high-value letters.

Words in total
998
Everyday words
76
Highest Scrabble score
jazzily at 35
Average Scrabble score
16.0
Longest
subject at 7 letters
Letters that turn up most
J 100%, E 52%, A 41%, S 41%, I 35%, O 32%

Questions

How many words with j are there?
998 in ENABLE, the word list Scrabble and Words With Friends programs validate against. This page lists them all where the list is short enough, and the most common of them where it is not.
Which one scores highest?
jazzily, at 35 points in Scrabble and 37 in Words With Friends. That is raw tile value: a bonus square can multiply it, and a seven-tile play adds fifty on top.
What is the longest?
subject, at 7 letters. The list spans 2 to 7 letters.
Which are worth learning first?
The ones you will actually get a chance to play: just, subject, project, john, jobs, job, join, major. The list is ordered that way, most common first.

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Type the tiles you are holding, ? included for blanks, and the finder returns every word you can make from them—scored, everyday words first. It searches all 315,007 words in your browser, so nothing you type is sent anywhere.

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