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Words Ending in ER

There are 7,487 English words that end in ER, spanning from ABANDONER to ZOSTER. The Scrabble® high-scorer of this list is HEMIDEMISEMIQUAVER at 40 points; the longest is ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHER (23 letters). Handy for crosswords, Scrabble endgames and Wordle guesses. Average word length in this list is 8 letters.

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Showing the first 600 of 7,487 words. Use the pattern search to narrow further, or filter with the unscrambler.

Top 10 highest-scoring words

Scored on letters only (no board bonuses). WWF uses different tile values from Scrabble — J, Q, X and Z are all 10 points in WWF.

#WordScrabbleWWF
1hemidemisemiquaver4044
2electroencephalographer3844
3microspectrophotometer3742
4katzenjammer3641
5chromolithographer3436
6psychobiographer3436
7quizzer3435
8demythologizer3334
9microphotographer3235
10extemporizer3234

Strategy for this list

The -ER suffix marks the comparative degree of adjectives (FAST → FASTER) and one of English's most productive noun endings (RUN → RUNNER, TEACH → TEACHER). Both letters are 1-point Scrabble tiles, so -ER hooks earn their value from the extended word rather than the suffix itself. The -ER list is huge — over 8,000 words in the standard dictionary — and is a common bingo ending: WAITERS, HEATERS, RETAINER, SMARTER. In Wordle, -ER shows up in roughly 8% of answers and is one of the most common trailing-two-letter patterns in the accepted-guess list.

FAQs

How many words end in ER?

7,487 valid English words end with ER.

Best Scrabble word ending in ER?

HEMIDEMISEMIQUAVER at 40 pts.

Longest word ending in ER?

ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHER (23 letters).

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