5 Letter Words Ending in S

How to find a five-letter word that ends in an S

Looking for 5 letter words that end with S to solve a Wordle? The finder above already has S in the last green box; add your other clues.

A real example from our word list: the answer is BRASS, and all you know is that it ends in S, which leaves 39 common words. Open with GLOSS, the guess that splits this set most evenly.

Guess 1: GLOSS S and S are green, and the rest are grey. That leaves 6 possible answers: press, dress, brass, chess, abyss and truss.

Guess 2: PRESS R, S and S are green, and the rest are grey. That leaves 2 possible answers: brass and truss.

Guess 3: BRASS All five letters are green. Solved in 3.

What comes before the final S?

The most common endings are -SS (41%), -US (33%) and -IS (8%). If you know the last letter is S, these pairs are the best place to start for the fourth letter.

About 5 letter words ending in S

Most 5 letter words ending in S are plurals or verb forms like "walks". The Wordle answer list leaves most of these out, so if you're solving Wordle, try other endings first. The common exceptions end in -SS, like class, grass, dress and cross, or -US, like focus, bonus and virus. If S is green last, testing a second S in the fourth spot is a quick way to check for -SS.

S is the most common last letter for 5 letter words.

Common endings with S

The common S-ending words that aren't plurals fall into a few families. -SS words include abyss, bless, bliss, brass, chess, floss, glass, gloss, gross, guess and press. -US words include bogus, locus, lotus, minus, nexus and sinus. A few end in -IS or -AS, like basis, oasis, alias and atlas. In Wordle, try one of these before any plural. For S at the start, the most common first letter, see 5 letter words starting with S.

Vowels in 5 letter words ending in S

U is the most common vowel here, appearing in 38% of the common words, followed by O (33%) and E (31%). The least common is A (26%).

41% have just one vowel, like class, press, cross and glass. At the other end, oasis, alias and pious have three or more.

A few have no A, E, I, O or U at all, because Y does the vowel's job: myths, hymns, cysts and syncs.

Nouns, verbs and adjectives

By main meaning (WordNet), there are 31 nouns, 5 verbs and 3 adjectives.

Nouns include class, focus and glass. Verbs include guess, press and cross. Adjectives include gross, bogus and pious.

Best Wordle guesses that end in S

Top guesses, with the average number of the 39 common words each leaves: LOCUS (4.3), LOTUS (4.8), BOGUS (4.8), AEGIS (4.9) and PIOUS (5.3).

62% repeat a letter, and 16 have a double letter, like class, guess, press and cross.

Highest-scoring 5 letter words ending in S in Scrabble

Top common words: nexus (12), focus (10) and chess (10). All valid words: zezes (23), zaxes (21) and zexes (21). 117 words reach 15 points or more.