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A free English word reference: definitions, IPA pronunciation, confusable pairs, homophones, and spelling corrections from the open Wiktionary corpus.
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Which letters start the most English words?
Most common initial letters in English
Top 10 letters, ranked by how many indexed words begin with each
- S
S
54,294 words
- P
P
46,516 words
- C
C
43,570 words
- M
M
36,575 words
- A
A
35,202 words
- B
B
31,241 words
- T
T
27,828 words
- D
D
26,416 words
- N
N
24,391 words
- H
H
23,837 words
Most Common Words
Most Confused Pairs
- 1theirvsthere
- 2thanvsthen
- 3loosevslose
- 4advicevsadvise
- 5complementvscompliment
- 6weathervswhether
- 7principalvsprinciple
- 8desertvsdessert
- 9quietvsquite
- 10brakevsbreak
Top 5 confusable pairs at a glance
Ranked by composite frequency × visual-similarity score. Higher bar = more likely to cause real-world substitution.
Source: Wiktionary (via kaiki.org) English confusables export · Q2 2026 Confusable scores combine word-frequency rank and Damerau–Levenshtein similarity.
Source & data vintage
Source: Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0) English headword + definitions corpus · Q2 2026 Aggregated and indexed via kaiki.org dictionary export. Confusable pairs are computed; homophone groups are derived from IPA matches.