Nouns That Start With Every Letter
Here are nouns that start with every letter from A to Z: 13,380 in all, with examples for each letter and a full page for every letter that has enough of them.
This A to Z page brings together 13,380 nouns. S, C and P are the giants, each with more than a thousand words, so they suit long games and advanced spelling work.
The thin letters are X with four nouns, Z with 30 and Y with 44. Q is small too, but question, quality and queen are easy to remember. For a 'noun for every letter' game, have xenon or zone ready in advance. Simple starters like home, book and city cover the earlier letters.
- Nouns listed
- 13,380
- Most common first letter
- S
Nouns by letter
| Letter | How many | Examples |
|---|---|---|
| A | 866 | at, an, area, air, age |
| B | 856 | being, business, book, body, bit |
| C | 1,420 | city, company, case, country, car |
| D | 728 | day, days, death, data, development |
| E | 485 | end, education, example, experience, energy |
| F | 569 | family, face, fact, food, friend |
| G | 481 | going, game, government, group, guy |
| H | 548 | he, home, house, head, health |
| I | 439 | it, information, idea, industry, interest |
| J | 124 | job, john, justice, japan, jack |
| K | 120 | kind, king, key, kid, knowledge |
| L | 497 | life, lot, line, law, level |
| M | 832 | me, may, man, must, might |
| N | 246 | number, name, night, nothing, news |
| O | 262 | or, order, oh, office, official |
| P | 1,129 | people, part, place, person, point |
| Q | 60 | question, quality, queen, quarter, quest |
| R | 693 | right, research, room, reason, road |
| S | 1,489 | state, school, someone, system, side |
| T | 741 | time, things, thing, team, thought |
| U | 123 | us, university, union, unit, understanding |
| V | 232 | video, view, value, version, voice |
| W | 362 | will, who, way, why, world |
| X | 4 | xi, xenophobia, xerox, xenon |
| Y | 44 | year, years, yes, yesterday, youth |
| Z | 30 | zone, zero, zoo, zombie, zinc |
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Which letter do the most nouns start with?
S, with 1,489 on this site's list.
Source: the ENABLE word list (a public-domain dictionary used for word games), ranked by how often each word appears in English text (the open wordfreq project), with short meanings from Princeton WordNet.