Five Letter Word Finder

5 Letter Words Ending With S

There are 3,462 five-letter words ending with S in our word list, 30% of all five-letter words. More than nine in ten five-letter words ending in S are plurals or verb forms, like BOOKS or TAKES. Daily puzzles rarely use simple plurals as answers, so the everyday words that end in S without being plurals, like ABYSS, AMISS and ALIAS, are the ones worth noticing.

Quick facts

Most common endings:: -ES (648), -TS (347), -AS (251), -KS (239)
Most common other letters:: a, e, o, i, r
Words with a repeated letter:: 1,269 (37%)

Common 5 letter words ending with S

The 46 everyday words from the full list below. Start here if you’re solving a daily puzzle, since those answers are usually familiar words. Not sure what one means? Look it up in the Online Dictionary.

5 letter words ending with S that aren’t plurals

Grouped by the first letter. The other 3,205 words ending in S are likely plurals and verb forms (BOOKS, TAKES). Daily puzzles rarely use them as answers, so they aren’t listed here; you can see them all in the finder.

A___S (31 words)

B___S (11 words)

balas
banns
basis
bigos
biogs
bless
bliss
bogus
bolus
bonus
brass

C___S (19 words)

camas
camus
casus
certs
chess
circs
claes
class
clies
comus
conus
corps
crass
cress
cries
crits
cross
cutis
cycas

D___S (8 words)

debus
degas
dibbs
diffs
dress
dries
dross
dufus

E___S (6 words)

eidos
elops
embus
ethos
exies
eyass

F___S (14 words)

favus
feces
fenks
fetus
ficus
flies
floss
focus
fomes
frass
fress
fries
frons
fucus

G___S (10 words)

gauss
gibus
glans
glass
gloss
gonys
grass
gross
guess
gyrus

H___S (8 words)

hafis
hajes
hiems
hilus
hocus
huies
humus
hurds

I___S (4 words)

ictus
ileus
incus
ivies

J___S (4 words)

james
jones
jougs
judas

K___S (3 words)

krans
kumys
kvass

L___S (19 words)

labis
lapis
lects
leges
lenes
lenis
lewis
lexis
litas
liths
lobus
locus
loess
loris
lotus
louis
lupus
lusus
lysis

M___S (14 words)

magus
manus
margs
mavis
mebos
metis
minus
mitis
modus
momus
mopus
mouls
mucus
myops

N___S (14 words)

nabis
naras
naris
nates
negus
nelis
nerts
nevus
nexus
nidus
nisus
nodus
nomos
noyes

O___S (8 words)

oases
oasis
oaves
oecus
oncus
onkus
ornis
orris

P___S (18 words)

palas
paris
patas
pavis
pedes
perps
pilus
pious
polis
press
pries
priss
probs
pross
psoas
pubes
pubis
pyxis

Q___S (1 word)

quass

R___S (10 words)

rajes
ramus
reais
rebus
reges
renes
ribes
risus
rubus
rudas

S___S (18 words)

saros
sarus
sedes
sekos
shaps
shies
sinus
skies
smous
solus
sorus
speos
spies
sties
stoss
swies
swiss
synds

T___S (23 words)

tabes
tajes
talus
tamis
tapis
taxus
techs
telos
teras
teres
terrs
terts
texas
timps
tonus
torus
trans
trass
tress
trews
trois
truss
turps

U___S (1 word)

uncus

V___S (7 words)

vagus
varus
veges
venus
virus
vlies
voces

W___S (3 words)

wamus
whiss
wries

X___S (1 word)

xerus

Y___S (1 word)

yonks

Z___S (1 word)

zooks