Words that end in A
There are 500 words that end in a in this list, most common first. Filter by letters or length.
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The most-used words that end in a, and what they mean
These are the 14 that come up most often in written English, so they are the ones worth knowing first.
- sea
- nounThe ocean; the continuous body of salt water covering a majority of the Earth's surface.
- extra
- adjective(not comparable) Beyond what is due, usual, expected, or necessary; extraneous; additional; supernumerary.
- plasma
- noun(physics) A state of matter consisting of partially ionized gas and electrons.
- phenomena
- noun(nonstandard) A phenomenon.
- pennsylvania
- nounA state of the United States. Capital: Harrisburg. Largest city: Philadelphia.
- santa
- nounAn instance of someone dressed up as Santa.
- propaganda
- noun(as a neutral word dated) Agitation, publicity, public communication aimed at influencing an audience and furthering an agenda.
- para
- noun(medicine) A woman who has given birth or brought pregnancies to viable gestational age a certain number of times, indicated by the number prepended to this word.
- spectra
- Spectra: A Book of Poetic Experiments was a small volume of poetry published in 1916 by American writers Witter Bynner, who wrote under the pseudonym "Emanuel…
- peninsula
- noun(geography) A piece of land projecting into water from a larger land mass.
- supra
- adverbAbove, mentioned earlier in a text.
- syria
- nounA country in West Asia in the Middle East. Official name: Syrian Arab Republic. Capital: Damascus.
- schizophrenia
- noun(pathology) A psychiatric diagnosis denoting a persistent, often chronic, mental illness characterised by abnormal perception, thinking, behavior and emotion…
- edema
- noun(medicine) An excessive accumulation of serum in tissue spaces or a body cavity.
Nouns, verbs and adjectives
Of the 500 words in this list, 481 can be used as a noun, including sea, extra, plasma, phenomena, pennsylvania. Plenty of words do more than one job: state is a noun, a verb and an adjective depending on how you use it, which is why these numbers add up to more than the list itself.
How this list is built
The words come from the Datamuse language API, then get cleaned up, because the raw output is not much use on its own. Each word is checked against an English dictionary, with a frequency floor for anything not in it, so ordinary inflections survive while noise does not. Roman numerals, fragments and vowel-less abbreviations are stripped out.
What is left is ranked by how often each word actually appears in written English. That ordering is the point: it puts the words you might actually want at the top. The full method is on how we build these.
Common questions
How many words that end in a are there?
This list holds 500, filtered to real dictionary words and ranked by how common they are. English has more if you count obscure and archaic ones, but they are little use to anybody.
Can a word ending in A be a noun?
Yes. 481 of the 500 words on this list can be used as a noun. The breakdown above shows how many work as verbs, adjectives and adverbs too.
How are the words ordered?
By how often each word appears in written English, most common first, so the useful ones are at the top rather than buried under rarities. See how we build these.
Can I search inside the list?
Yes. The filter box narrows the list as you type, and where a list mixes lengths there are buttons to show only words of a given length.