Words Starting With EA
100 wordsWords beginning with EA tap into some of English's oldest vocabulary. The ear and earth family dominates here, along with essential verbs like eat and ease that speakers use daily without a second thought.
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1Pattern Guide
Insights and recommendations for these words.
The EA pattern rewards players who know their Anglo-Saxon roots and aren't afraid of compound words.
Vocabulary & Language
Linguistic patterns and usage statistics
EA words cluster around a few core concepts: the body (ear, eat), the ground (earth), and comfort (ease, easy). This isn't coincidental—these represent fundamental human experiences that needed words early in the language's development. Many EA words spawn extensive families through compounding: ear alone gives us earmuff, earwax, earflap, earmark, and dozens more.
Total Words
146
0.0% of dictionary
Avg Length
7.5 letters
2.2 syllables
Top Scrabble
EARTHQUAKING
29 points
Longest Word
EASYGOINGNESS
13 letters
Parts of Speech
Nouns dominate this pattern at 63%, reflecting how many EA words name concrete things—ears, earth, eagles. The 21% adjective share comes largely from easy and its relatives, plus descriptive compounds like earthshaking.
Old English and Middle English account for nearly all EA words with known origins. Words like eat trace back through Middle English to Old English and beyond to Proto-West Germanic. Earl follows a similar path through Proto-Germanic. This pattern represents the linguistic bedrock of English, predating the French and Latin borrowings that flooded in later centuries.
Word Games
High-value words for board games
Short (2-4)
Medium (5-7)
a soft yellow wax secreted by glands in the ear canal
either of a pair of ear coverings (usually connected by a headband) that are worn to keep the ears warm in cold weather
give or assign a resource to a particular person or cause
Long (8+)
shaking and vibration at the surface of the earth resulting from underground movement along a fault plane or from volcanic activity
sufficiently significant to affect the whole world
Short (2-4)
Medium (5-7)
either of a pair of ear coverings (usually connected by a headband) that are worn to keep the ears warm in cold weather
a soft yellow wax secreted by glands in the ear canal
one of two flaps attached to a cap to keep the ears warm
Long (8+)
shaking and vibration at the surface of the earth resulting from underground movement along a fault plane or from volcanic activity
EARTHQUAKING tops both games, but WWF awards it 31 points versus Scrabble's 29. EARMUFF shows a bigger gap—17 points in WWF compared to 15 in Scrabble, thanks to WWF's different letter values. EAUX delivers solid returns in both games for just four tiles. For shorter plays, EACH at 9 points works identically in both formats.
Wordle
5-letter words for daily puzzles
Good Starters (E, A, R, S, T)
EARTH and EARLY make strong openers, each testing two vowels plus common consonants R, T, L, and H. EAGER offers an alternative that checks for doubled letters early.
Length Extremes
Longest and shortest valid words
Longest
Shortest
Compound formation explains the length extremes here. Short roots like ear and ease extend into EASYGOINGNESS and EARTHQUAKING by stacking prefixes and suffixes onto simple bases.
Hidden Gems
Rare but valid words to surprise opponents
give or assign a resource to a particular person or cause
"I will earmark this money for your research"
the trait of being serious
ceramic ware made of porous clay fired at low heat
sufficiently significant to affect the whole world
"earthshaking proposals"
EARTHSHAKING means sufficiently significant to affect the whole world. Beyond its dramatic definition, it's a strategic gem—a 23-point Scrabble word that uses only common tiles. It's one of those rare words that's both genuinely useful in conversation and valuable on the board.
Popular crossword answers
Words frequently used in crossword puzzles with common clues.