Words That Start With O

Stuck on an O? You are holding one of the friendliest letters in the bag. This page lists 5,843 words that start with O, all pulled from the same dictionary the search tool runs on, so the counts you read and the results you get can never disagree. Type your remaining tiles into the filter and the list narrows to plays you can actually make.

The two letter escape hatch

O hands you an even dozen two letter plays: OD, OE, OF, OH, OM, ON, OP, OR, OS, OW, OX, and OY. That spread is a gift late in a Scrabble game, when the board is crowded and you need to shed a tile without opening a lane for your opponent. OX is the prize of the group at nine points on two tiles, while OE, OS, and OD are the quiet heroes that keep a clogged rack moving.

Over and out

Roughly half of the whole O family is built on just two prefixes. OVER leads the way, from OVERACT to OVERZEALOUS, and OUT follows with OUTBID, OUTDO, OUTFOX, and hundreds of their cousins. When you are staring at a long rack, checking whether your letters extend an OVER or an OUT word is the fastest shortcut this letter offers.

Where the points hide

The O tile is worth a single point, so the scores come from the company it keeps. OXBOW tops the five letter tier at 17 points, with OXEYE and OOZED close behind at 15. On seven tiles, OZONIZE pays 25 and OXIDIZE 24, both worthy bingo material. At the freakish end of the list sits OXYPHENBUTAZONES, an arthritis drug from decades past, worth 42 points across sixteen letters.

Length by length

The family peaks at eight letters with 972 entries, and seven tile racks can draw on 618 candidates. Daily puzzle players get 181 five letter words that start with O, including steady picks like OTHER, OPERA, and OLIVE. If a count ever looks off compared with another site, remember that every number here is recomputed from the source dictionary on each build, and the dictionary page explains exactly what is in it.