Most Common Words In English Starting With E

Name all words starting with a letter E, that you can find most commonly in English newspapers, magazine articles and workplace conversations.
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Word
each
eager
ear
early
earn
earnings
earth
ease
easily
east
eastern
easy
eat
economic
economics
economist
economy
edge
edition
editor
educate
education
educational
educator
effect
effective
effectively
efficiency
Word
efficient
effort
egg
eight
either
elderly
elect
election
electric
electricity
electronic
element
elementary
eliminate
elite
else
elsewhere
e-mail
embrace
emerge
emergency
emission
emotion
emotional
emphasis
emphasize
employ
employee
Word
employer
employment
empty
enable
encounter
encourage
end
enemy
energy
enforcement
engage
engine
engineer
engineering
English
enhance
enjoy
enormous
enough
ensure
enter
enterprise
entertainment
entire
entirely
entrance
entry
environment
Word
environmental
episode
equal
equally
equipment
era
error
especially
essay
essential
essentially
establish
establishment
estate
estimate
etc
ethics
ethnic
European
evaluate
evaluation
even
evening
event
eventually
ever
every
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everybody
everyday
everyone
everything
everywhere
evidence
evolution
evolve
exact
exactly
examination
examine
example
exceed
excellent
except
exception
exchange
exciting
executive
exercise
exhibit
exhibition
exist
existence
existing
expand
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expansion
expect
expectation
expense
expensive
experience
experiment
expert
explain
explanation
explode
explore
explosion
expose
exposure
express
expression
extend
extension
extensive
extent
external
extra
extraordinary
extreme
extremely
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8 Comments
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Level 70
Feb 28, 2018
What is espace? And especially is spelt wrongly.
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Level 74
Mar 1, 2018
I'm pretty sure espace is a word. Typo in especially is gone :)
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Level 67
Apr 3, 2018
I'm with cuotak - I've never heard of espace.
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Level 74
Apr 6, 2018
I'm getting a big objection from others, so I removed espace. I don't know why my source listed it and why it's not showing as an incorrect word when typing on my computer. It underlines all unknown phrases with red. But whatever, I see it isn't known.
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Level 45
May 22, 2024
there is no way anyone says economist more than exit lmao
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Level 47
Jan 23, 2025
Your title is misleading, given that 'conversation' is actually a category emphatically *not* listed in your source, which is about being able to read newspapers and talk in the workplace. As soon as you realise you're looking for words you might see in the Wall Street journal it's a lot easy, but this is absolutely not a list of the most common words to hear in conversation, and your source does not claim to be that.
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Level 74
Jan 25, 2025
I'm updating the descriptions now, thanks. The quiz series is 7 years old now and 15 year old me wasn't the brightest.
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Level 76
Jun 12, 2025
An extremely exasperating but equally entertaining exercise, eventhough not effortless, an enormous endeavour even, eventually I might endure it again.

This was so tough! It was almost like no e-words existed! Perhaps because English isn't my native tongue, they would not come to me as easily. Usually I do just fine on word quizzes though.

Ended up with 43.. missed the basic each and every, but got ethnic and ethics, (and enterprise, which scored higher than those too, but is slightly more unusual imo)