Complete list of 86 four-letter words that start with J. Common words are shown first, followed by the full A–Z list.
The most frequently used words in everyday English, most common first.
The words come from the ENABLE word list (3,903 four-letter words), the open dictionary that many word games, including Words With Friends, are based on. Official Scrabble dictionaries accept nearly all of them but can differ slightly.
There are 86 four-letter words that start with J. The words come from the ENABLE word list (3,903 four-letter words), the open dictionary that many word games, including Words With Friends, are based on. Official Scrabble dictionaries accept nearly all of them but can differ slightly.
The letters that most often follow J are A (20), O (19), E (17), I (15) and U (15). The biggest groups are words beginning with JA-, JO- and JE-, so if you know the second letter you can jump straight to that group in the list above.
Using standard Scrabble tile values (before bonus squares), the highest-scoring well-known words here are JAZZ (29 points), JEEZ (20 points), JINX (18 points), JACK (17 points), JOCK (17 points). J itself is worth 8 points. To search by the exact tiles on your rack, use the word finder or the anagram solver.