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M is the 14th most common letter in English at about 2.4%. It is an easy-to-articulate nasal consonant that appears in many of the highest-frequency words (ME, MY, MAKE, MORE, MUCH, MAN). M is one of the few consonants that can end a syllable as a standalone consonant: HAM, TOM, MOM.
In Scrabble, M is worth 3 points with 2 M tiles in the bag. M-initial high-scoring words include MEZUZAH, MUZJIK (a Russian peasant, famous as a short high-value word), MIXUP, MAZY, MIXER.
Productive M-prefixes: MACRO- (large — MACROECONOMICS), MICRO- (small — MICROSCOPE, MICROPROCESSOR), META- (beyond — METADATA), MULTI- (many — MULTIPLAYER), MID- (middle). M also doubles heavily in English: COMMON, SUMMER, GRAMMAR illustrate the pattern.
Our dictionary lists 15,801 English words beginning with M. That is roughly 4.4% of all the words in our dictionary. M is the 14th most common letter in English (about 2.4% of written text).
At 41 points, METHOXYBENZENES leads the M-starting list in Scrabble scoring. Premium squares can multiply this further; the M tile alone is worth 3 points.
The shortest we show is MA at just 2 letters. In Scrabble, short M-words are dump plays: you clear a tile onto a premium square, collect the bonus, and keep your rack flexible.