English words
PlainSpell lists 80,560 English words from the English Wiktionary (dump of September 2, 2026), out of 689,006 English headwords it records outside proper names.
Words by first letter
| Letter | Words |
|---|---|
| A | 5,087 |
| B | 4,836 |
| C | 7,380 |
| D | 4,573 |
| E | 2,958 |
| F | 3,217 |
| G | 2,780 |
| H | 3,258 |
| I | 2,930 |
| J | 769 |
| K | 1,193 |
| L | 2,608 |
| M | 4,897 |
| N | 2,015 |
| O | 2,018 |
| P | 6,549 |
| Q | 417 |
| R | 3,878 |
| S | 8,610 |
| T | 4,266 |
| U | 2,382 |
| V | 1,232 |
| W | 1,939 |
| X | 91 |
| Y | 371 |
| Z | 306 |
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). A word is listed when Wiktionary gives it a meaning and at least one more fact (pronunciation, forms, origin, an example) or it is in written use.
Lists
- Most misspelled words
Measured in search.
- Word pairs
Confusables, homophones, variants, one word or two.
- Homophones
Words that sound the same, checked against their pronunciations.
- American and British spelling
Every regional pair.
- One word or two
Everyday or every day, setup or set up.
- Abbreviations
How words are shortened.
- Irregular plurals
Mice, octopuses, criteria.
- Irregular verbs
Went, drove, sought.
Among the most common words
- and
- a
- as
- are
- at
- an
- be
- by
- but
- been
- back
- because
- can
- could
- can't
- come
- city
- company
- do
- don't
- did
- day
- down
- during
- even
- every
- each
- end
- ever
- enough
Order: written frequency, wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).