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Words That Start With Ers
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There are 6 English words that start with ERS in the word list Wordton searches, ENABLE plus a curated modern supplement.
This is the complete list from our 173,000-word dictionary: every entry, with a note on what it is.
- ers3 ptsthe bitter vetch, a small Old World forage plant
- erst4 ptsan archaic word for formerly or long ago
- erses5 ptsplural of ers
- ersatz15 ptsa substitute of inferior quality, borrowed from German
- ersatzes17 ptsplural of ersatz
- erstwhile15 ptsformer, as in an erstwhile rival
Why so few?
ERS- is a dead-end opening in English: the native word erst and its descendant erstwhile are survivors of Old English, while ersatz marched in from German during the World Wars. Nothing new has been coined on this stem for centuries, so the family stays tiny.