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Words That Start with EI

There are 32 words that start with EI on Word.ws, from 3 to 13 letters. The most common length is 10 letters (7 words). The words used most often are either, eight, eighth, einstein and eighteenth.

Meanings from Wiktionary. Not an official Scrabble, Words With Friends or Wordle word list.

3-letter words that start with EI

  • eid4n. An isthmus or narrow neck of land jutting out into the sea; a sandbank...

4-letter words that start with EI

  • eidi5n. A gift, especially money, given to children on Islamic Eids.
  • eina4interj. Ouch! (an exclamation of pain).
  • eisa4n. A form of Okinawan folk dance.
  • eish7interj. Phew; whew; expressing resignation.

5-letter words that start with EI

  • eider6n. Any of the species of Somateria spp. and Polysticta stelleri or of the...
  • eidos6n. Form; essence; type; species.
  • eight9n. The digit/figure 8.
  • eisel5n. Vinegar, verjuice.

6-letter words that start with EI

  • eighth13adj. The ordinal form of the number eight.
  • eights10n. A pair of eights.
  • either9det. Any one (of two).

7-letter words that start with EI

  • eidetic10adj. Marked by or resulting from extraordinary ability to recall detailed...
  • eidolon8n. An image or representation of an idea; a representation of an ideal...
  • eikonal11adj. Describing the properties of a class of partial differential equation...
  • einkorn11n. Einkorn wheat.

8-letter words that start with EI

  • eighties12n. The decade of the 1880s, 1980s, etc.
  • einstein8n. One mole of photons, regardless of frequency, as used to measure...

9-letter words that start with EI

  • eiderdown14n. The down of the eider duck, used for stuffing pillows and quilts.
  • eightfold17adj. Eight times as much; multiplied by eight.
  • eightieth16adj. The ordinal form of the number eighty.
  • einherjar19n. The warriors who died fighting bravely and were brought by valkyries to...

10-letter words that start with EI

  • eicosanoid13n. Any of a family of naturally-occurring substances derived from...
  • eigenspace15n. The linear subspace consisting of all eigenvectors associated with a...
  • eigenstate11n. A dynamic quantum mechanical state whose wave function is an...
  • eigenvalue14n. A scalar λ, such that there exists a non-zero vector x (a corresponding...
  • eighteenth17adj. The ordinal form of the number eighteen.
  • eightpence18n. A former coin worth eight pence; the monetary amount of eight pence.
  • eisteddfod16n. Any of several annual festivals in which Welsh poets, dancers, and...

11-letter words that start with EI

  • eigenvector17n. A vector that is only scaled (not rotated out of its span) under a...
  • einsteinium13n. A transuranic chemical element (symbol Es) with atomic number 99: a...

13-letter words that start with EI

  • eigenfunction19n. A function ϕ such that, for a given linear operator D, Dϕ=λϕ for some...
236 rare words that start with EI

Questions about these words

How many words that start with EI are there?
Word.ws lists 32 words that start with EI, plus 236 rare ones.
What are common words that start with EI?
either, eight, eighth, einstein, eighteenth, eid, eighties and eights.
Which of the words that start with EI has the highest letter score?
einherjar scores 19 points with the standard letter tile values.

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Word lists and meanings adapted from the Wiktionary entry of each word. Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws left out names, abbreviations, misspellings and offensive words, and ordered the most common words by how often they appear in English (wordfreq). Meanings from Wiktionary; this is not an official Scrabble, Words With Friends or Wordle word list. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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