This list contains letter frequency statistics for 8 letter Scrabble words.
How many 8 letter words are there?
TWL Scrabble dictionary contains
31475 eight letter words, that is
16.78% of all words.
Scrabble Collins dictionary contains
40161 eight letter words, that is
15% of all words.
Frequency of letters in 8 letter words
- 68.28% containing E
- 58.25% containing S
- 54.28% containing I
- 50.84% containing A
- 49.29% containing R
- 42.45% containing N
- 41.43% containing T
- 40.17% containing O
- 38.61% containing L
- 27.99% containing D
- 27.15% containing C
- 25.77% containing U
- 21.04% containing G
- 20.35% containing M
- 20.33% containing P
- 18.08% containing H
- 16.01% containing B
- 11.83% containing Y
- 10.16% containing F
- 9.59% containing K
- 8.25% containing W
- 7.33% containing V
- 2.79% containing Z
- 2.27% containing X
- 1.46% containing Q
Letter frequency counts for eight letter Scrabble words clearly show that these words most often contain the letters
E, S, I, A, R and least often the letter
X. Letter distributions of 8-letter words are an useful resource for Scrabble players.
Starting letter frequencies of 8 letter words
- 12.36% starting with S
- 9.22% starting with C
- 7.75% starting with P
- 6.57% starting with B
- 5.79% starting with R
- 5.48% starting with A
- 5.44% starting with D
- 5.42% starting with T
- 5.23% starting with M
- 4.59% starting with F
- 3.83% starting with E
- 3.53% starting with G
- 3.48% starting with H
- 3.32% starting with O
- 3.18% starting with L
- 2.89% starting with U
- 2.63% starting with W
- 2.47% starting with I
- 1.95% starting with N
- 1.7% starting with V
- 1.16% starting with K
- 0.78% starting with J
- 0.55% starting with Q
- 0.31% starting with Z
- 0.28% starting with Y
- 0.07% starting with X
Eight letter words begin most frequently with these letters
S, C, P, B and R.
Ending letter frequencies of 8 letter words
- 34.27% ending in S
- 11.25% ending in E
- 10.85% ending in D
- 7.09% ending in G
- 7.07% ending in R
- 6.17% ending in T
- 5.85% ending in Y
- 3.62% ending in N
- 3.14% ending in L
- 2.04% ending in C
- 1.84% ending in M
- 1.82% ending in A
- 1.51% ending in H
- 1.2% ending in K
- 0.54% ending in O
- 0.49% ending in P
- 0.41% ending in I
- 0.26% ending in W
- 0.25% ending in X
- 0.15% ending in F
- 0.09% ending in B
- 0.08% ending in U
- 0.02% ending in V
- 0.01% ending in Z
- 0% ending in Q
- 0% ending in J
Eight letter words end most frequently with these letters
S, E, D, G and R.
Frequencies of vowels and consonants in 8 letter words
Frequency of 8-letter
words with vowels:
23.56% of words(7414) contain 2 vowels,
53.73% of words(16912) contain 3 vowels,
21.1% of words(6642) contain 4 vowels,
1.05% of words(329) contain 5 vowels,
0.02% of words(5) contain 6 vowels.
Frequency of 8-letter
words with consonants:
0.02% of words(5) contain 2 consonants,
1.05% of words(329) contain 3 consonants,
21.1% of words(6642) contain 4 consonants,
53.72% of words(16909) contain 5 consonants,
23.56% of words(7414) contain 6 consonants,
0.56% of words(176) contain 7 consonants.