Words that start with G
There are 9,019 words that start with G in Unscrambly's open word list; the highest scoring is GYROFREQUENCY at 34 points. They run from 2 to 15 letters, 8-letter words are the biggest group with 1,436, and the average one scores 13.1 points.
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G swings between the hard sound in game and the soft sound in gem, and it teams up with H in a surprising number of words. G starts 3.3% of the 269,870 words in the dictionary, the 15th largest share of the 26 letters. The longest run to 15 letters (89 words), GRAVITATIONALLY among them. Two-letter words starting with G: GI, GO and GU.
Words that start with G in numbers
- Words
- 9,019
- Highest scoring
- GYROFREQUENCY 34 pts
- Average score
- 13.1 pts
- Longest
- GRAVITATIONALLY 15 letters
- 23
- 362
- 4275
- 5621
- 61,009
- 71,397
- 81,436
- 91,312
- 101,052
- 11778
- 12496
- 13305
- 14184
- 1589
Highest-scoring words that start with g
| Word | Score | Length |
|---|---|---|
| gyrofrequency | 34 | 13 |
| gyrofrequencies | 33 | 15 |
| glyphographical | 32 | 15 |
| grammaticizing | 31 | 14 |
| gewurztraminers | 30 | 15 |
| glyphographic | 30 | 13 |
| glyphography | 30 | 12 |
| gonadectomized | 30 | 14 |
| governmentalize | 30 | 15 |
| grammaticized | 30 | 13 |
Words that start with G (9,019)
These 300 of the 9,019 are a spread sample: the 50 highest scoring first, then words taken in turn from every length (2 to 15 letters); within each, words with a dictionary definition come first. The solver above searches all of them for your tiles, and the full list is in the free JSON API.
15-letter words 16
14-letter words 23
13-letter words 23
12-letter words 23
11-letter words 23
10-letter words 23
9-letter words 23
8-letter words 23
7-letter words 24
6-letter words 24
5-letter words 24
4-letter words 24
3-letter words 24
Frequently asked questions
How many words start with G?
9,019 words in Unscrambly's list start with G. 621 of them have five letters, 1,397 have seven and 3 have two.
What is the best G word for Scrabble?
GYROFREQUENCY scores 34 points before bonus squares. Next come GYROFREQUENCIES (33), GLYPHOGRAPHICAL (32) and GRAMMATICIZING (31). Across all 9,019, the average is 13.1 points.
What two-letter words start with G?
GI, GO and GU: 3 in total. Two-letter words are the easiest way to score on a crowded board.
How many 5 letter words start with G?
621. Five letters is the Wordle length, and every one of them is on the 5 letter words starting with G list, where GAUZY scores highest at 18 points.