9-Letter Words
There are 24,873 nine-letter words in our dictionary; 11,017 of them are common words. This page shows the most common ones and the top scorers; the full list is split by letter below.
Type your own letters to find only the 9-letter words you can make, or leave it empty to open this list in the word finder.
Most common nine-letter words
- technique23 points
- equipment22 points
- qualified22 points
- acquiring21 points
- apologize21 points
- backwards21 points
- everybody21 points
- excessive21 points
- exclusive21 points
- expecting21 points
- expensive21 points
- extremely21 points
- objecting21 points
- qualifies21 points
- recognize21 points
- effective20 points
- exception20 points
- excluding20 points
- expanding20 points
- hopefully20 points
- justified20 points
- objection20 points
- organized20 points
- sequences20 points
- examining19 points
- executing19 points
- explained19 points
- expressed19 points
- extensive19 points
- justifies19 points
- modifying19 points
- occupying19 points
- organizes19 points
- perfectly19 points
- realizing19 points
- rejecting19 points
- requested19 points
- requiring19 points
- achieving18 points
- affecting18 points
- community18 points
- difficult18 points
- excellent18 points
- existence18 points
- expansion18 points
- expresses18 points
- extending18 points
- knowledge18 points
- mechanics18 points
- mechanism18 points
- publicity18 points
- questions18 points
- switching18 points
- approving17 points
- behaviour17 points
- carefully17 points
- confirmed17 points
- convinced17 points
- efficient17 points
- emergency17 points
- happening17 points
- improving17 points
- obviously17 points
- paragraph17 points
- performed17 points
- published17 points
- somewhere17 points
- specified17 points
- supplying17 points
- welcoming17 points
- accepting16 points
- advancing16 points
- afterward16 points
- basically16 points
- character16 points
- combining16 points
- commented16 points
- comparing16 points
- completed16 points
- composing16 points
- computing16 points
- convinces16 points
- correctly16 points
- developed16 points
- different16 points
- displayed16 points
- extension16 points
- finishing16 points
- following16 points
- involving16 points
- mistaking16 points
- movements16 points
- precisely16 points
- primitive16 points
- providing16 points
- publishes16 points
- recommend16 points
- specially16 points
- specifies16 points
- suffering16 points
- surviving16 points
- technical16 points
- temporary16 points
- wonderful16 points
- yesterday16 points
- according15 points
- algorithm15 points
- attaching15 points
- authority15 points
- believing15 points
- borrowing15 points
- bothering15 points
- cardboard15 points
- committee15 points
- complains15 points
- complaint15 points
- completes15 points
- component15 points
- computers15 points
- confident15 points
- confusing15 points
- criticism15 points
- described15 points
- directory15 points
- discovers15 points
- elsewhere15 points
- implement15 points
- informing15 points
- observing15 points
- otherwise15 points
- practical15 points
- preferred15 points
- prevented15 points
- principle15 points
- producing15 points
- receiving15 points
- recovered15 points
- reflected15 points
- remembers15 points
- searching15 points
- secondary15 points
- someplace15 points
- something15 points
- therefore15 points
- virtually15 points
- advantage14 points
- ambiguous14 points
- anonymous14 points
- appearing14 points
- arbitrary14 points
- attempted14 points
- available14 points
- beautiful14 points
- broadcast14 points
- certainly14 points
- collected14 points
- concerned14 points
- confusion14 points
- connected14 points
- corrected14 points
- corrupted14 points
- currently14 points
- dedicated14 points
- delivered14 points
- depending14 points
- describes14 points
- destroyed14 points
- disappear14 points
- documents14 points
- establish14 points
- financial14 points
- functions14 points
- gradually14 points
- immediate14 points
- inability14 points
- influence14 points
- interface14 points
- invisible14 points
- necessary14 points
- necessity14 points
- occurring14 points
- partially14 points
- permitted14 points
- preparing14 points
- procedure14 points
- processed14 points
- promising14 points
- proposing14 points
- protected14 points
- reference14 points
- relevance14 points
- replacing14 points
- reproduce14 points
- secretary14 points
- similarly14 points
- sincerely14 points
- submitted14 points
- supported14 points
- supposing14 points
- suspected14 points
Highest-scoring nine-letter words
- quizzical38 points
- showbizzy38 points
- whizzbang36 points
- chazzanim34 points
- chazzenim34 points
- huzzahing34 points
- jazziness34 points
- blizzardy33 points
- buzzwords33 points
- pizzalike33 points
- bemuzzled32 points
- embezzled32 points
- schizzier32 points
- schnozzes32 points
- schnozzle32 points
- bedazzled31 points
- bemuzzles31 points
- embezzler31 points
- embezzles31 points
- frazzling31 points
- frizzling31 points
- paparazzi31 points
- paparazzo31 points
- pizzicati31 points
- pizzicato31 points
- swizzling31 points
- zigzagged31 points
- bedazzles30 points
- blackjack30 points
- blizzards30 points
- equivoque30 points
- exchequer30 points
- exoenzyme30 points
- frizziest30 points
- frizzlers30 points
- frizzlier30 points
- fuzziness30 points
- hizzoners30 points
- maximized30 points
- podzolize30 points
- skyjacked30 points
- swizzlers30 points
- unmuzzled30 points
- unpuzzled30 points
- albizzias29 points
- cheapjack29 points
- czaritzas29 points
- drizzling29 points
- grizzling29 points
- highjacks29 points
All nine-letter words by letter
Quick facts
- Total words: 24,873
- By usage: 5,460 very common, 5,557 common, 13,856 rare
Highest scoring (classic tiles)
- quizzical 38
- showbizzy 38
- whizzbang 36
- chazzanim 34
- chazzenim 34
- huzzahing 34
- jazziness 34
- blizzardy 33
- buzzwords 33
- pizzalike 33
Most common
- technique
- equipment
- qualified
- acquiring
- apologize
- backwards
- everybody
- excessive
- exclusive
- expecting
Definitions
- technique (noun)
- A practical method or art applied to some particular task.
- equipment (noun)
- An instrumentality needed for an undertaking or to perform a service.
- qualified (adjective)
- Meeting the proper standards and requirements and training for an office or position or task.
- acquiring (noun)
- The act of acquiring something.
Welcome to the nine-letter word hub. We count 24,873 words of this length, of which 11,017 are common English words and the rest are rarer but still valid entries. Below you will find the most familiar words, the top scorers, and links to every list that starts with, ends in, or contains a given letter. The search box at the top accepts your own letters and blanks and returns only the nine-letter words you can play.
How to use this page
Begin with the search box when you have letters in hand and with the letter index when you do not. Every linked word opens a page listing all the shorter words hidden inside it, with anagrams called out first.
Tips
Reading through a length list is a reliable way to expand your vocabulary. Start with the common words on this page and make sure you can define each one; the definitions section covers the most useful. Then pick one letter and read the sub-list for words starting with it. Little and often works better than one long session. After a week you will notice that plays you used to miss now jump out of the rack, and your average score will show it.
Questions
Which nine-letter words are the most common?
TECHNIQUE, EQUIPMENT and QUALIFIED are among the most familiar. The list is sorted with everyday words first, and the very common ones carry a small dot, so you can read the top of the page and skip the obscure entries at the bottom.
Where is the complete list of nine-letter words?
It is split by letter so each page stays readable. Use the index on this page to open the nine-letter words starting with, ending in, or containing any letter; each of those pages is complete.