Which letter starts the fewest words in the English language?
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U
X
Z
Try naming ten words that start with the letter X. Xylophone, X-ray… not so easy, right? Astonishingly, the Oxford English Dictionary only lists 400 words that begin with the letter X. In fact, in Noah Webster’s Compendious Dictionary, which he published in 1806, there was only one word listed under the letter X: xebec, defined as “a small three-masted vessel in the Mediterranean.” In 1828, when he put together his American Dictionary, that number had only risen to 13. Over the course of time, the tally of words beginning with the letter X has continued to rise, culminating in the 400 words that we have today.
The correct answer is X.