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Words That End In S
All 103,902 English words that end in S, ordered with the most common first. Each one links to its definition, score and anagrams.
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How many words end in S?
There are 103,902 English words that end in S. The most common include PASS, MISS, PRESS, ADDRESS, CROSS, DRESS, and one of the highest scoring is SCHIZOMYCETES at 34 points.
- Total words
- 103,902
- Letter
- S
- Top score
- 34 pts
- Shortest
- 2
Common words that end in S
Showing the 500 most common of 103,902.
- pass6
- miss6
- press7
- address9
- cross7
- dress6
- mass6
- toss4
- focus10
- stress6
- express16
- gas4
- guess6
- witness10
- mess6
- process11
- progress11
- chorus11
- glass6
- harness10
- access10
- boss6
- fuss7
- gross6
- less4
- overseas11
- class7
- compass13
- distress9
- grass6
- kiss8
- upstairs10
- bias6
- bus5
- canvass12
- hiss7
- recess8
- suds5
- trespass10
- callus8
- canvas11
- gloss6
- homeless13
- impress11
- plus6
- regress8
- truss5
- business10
- compress14
- cuss6
- excess15
- loss4
- bass6
- bypass13
- cautious10
- precious12
- redress8
- thus7
- amiss7
- as2
- bourgeois12
- brass7
- callous9
- piss6
- undress8
- apropos11
- buttress10
- darkness13
- egress7
- floss8
- grounds9
- minus7
- omnibus11
- politics12
- series6
- serious7
- sideways15
- success11
- summons11
- various10
- wireless11
- analysis11
- bless7
- circus10
- coolness10
- crisscross14
- dismiss10
- emphasis15
- furious10
- generous9
- genius7
- helpless13
- hostess10
- news7
- nucleus9
- possess9
- profess12
- radius7
- religious10
- richness13
- suppress12
- surpass9
- weakness15
- words9
- works12
- across8
- affairs13
- ass3
- basis7
- besides10
- careless10
- caress8
- coldness11
- confess12
- congress11
- corps9
- crisis8
- curious9
- delicious12
- depress10
- discuss10
- dubious10
- earnings9
- endless8
- firmness13
- fitness10
- fullness11
- genus6
- hands9
- hideous11
- hours8
- jealous14
- laurels7
- lifeless11
- means7
- mindless11
- nerves9
- nervous10
- previous13
- raucous9
- restless8
- rigorous9
- riotous7
- sixties14
- slowness11
- species11
- status6
- steps7
- surplus9
- swiss8
- terms7
- thanks13
- thinness11
- times7
- twenties11
- venus8
- vicious12
- vigorous12
- wildness12
- years8
- adonis7
- aegis6
- aimless9
- alveolus11
- always12
- amass7
- amorous9
- anxious14
- aqueous16
- arduous8
- arms6
- assess6
- axis11
- badness10
- bathos11
- blues7
- boldness11
- bonus7
- calculus12
- calmness12
- caucus10
- census8
- chaos10
- citrus8
- colors8
- cosmos10
- cumulus11
- dealings10
- degas7
- devious11
- dickens14
- digress9
- dross6
- dryness11
- emeritus10
- engross8
- environs11
- ethics11
- exodus14
- fabulous13
- fairness11
- fearless11
- fifties13
- fineness11
- flatness11
- folks12
- fondness12
- forties10
- gallus7
- gauss6
- genesis8
- glorious9
- goodness10
- gracious11
- grievous12
- handless12
- headless12
- heedless12
- highness15
- hitless10
- hopeless13
- hotness10
- idleness9
- impetus11
- impious11
- incubus11
- jackass20
- justness15
- keenness12
- lawless10
- laxness14
- lens4
- letters7
- likeness12
- listless8
- loins5
- lots4
- lotus5
- luscious10
- madness10
- marbles11
- mars6
- meanness10
- mimesis11
- mistress10
- moses7
- nebulous10
- nemesis9
- nineties8
- numbness12
- numinous10
- obsess8
- odds6
- ominous9
- oppress11
- os2
- outdoors9
- painless10
- paris7
- pathos11
- pelvis11
- physics17
- pitiless10
- pompous13
- porous8
- profits12
- reckless14
- remains9
- repress9
- rudeness9
- ruinous7
- rumpus10
- sadness8
- sameness10
- shucks15
- sickness14
- sinuous7
- softness11
- spacious12
- studious9
- tactics11
- tedious8
- teens5
- thesis9
- thirties11
- tireless8
- tortuous8
- ugliness9
- unawares11
- upwards13
- verdigris14
- virus8
- waitress11
- wings9
- wondrous12
- workings16
- abacus10
- acinus8
- aculeus9
- airiness8
- alias5
- allies6
- ambiguous14
- amends9
- ananas6
- angelus8
- annals6
- annulus7
- aptness9
- argus6
- arrears7
- artless7
- asepsis9
- atlas5
- aurochs12
- aweless10
- awless9
- badlands12
- bareness10
- basics10
- benthos12
- bilious9
- biomass11
- boards9
- bodiless11
- bolus7
- boreas8
- bugloss10
- bulbous11
- burgess10
- burns7
- buss6
- calamus11
- cannabis12
- ceres7
- chablis14
- chamois14
- chassis12
- chess10
- chives14
- chlamys17
- cirrus8
- citrous9
- cobblers14
- collins9
- colossus10
- colours9
- commons13
- concuss11
- conscious13
- contents10
- copious11
- corpus10
- corvus11
- cos5
- couscous12
- covetous13
- craps9
- creeps10
- cress7
- cubitus11
- cyclops16
- cypress14
- cyprus13
- dateless9
- deadness10
- decorous11
- deepness11
- detritus9
- diggings12
- digs6
- dimness10
- discus9
- doldrums12
- doris6
- dos4
- doubles10
- drawers11
- dullness9
- easiness8
- edgeways16
- eelgrass9
- eighties12
- emulous9
- endways14
- epanodos11
- epos6
- eros4
- evenness11
- eyeless10
- falls8
- fastness11
- feckless17
- fibrous12
- fils7
- finis8
- fixings18
- flinders12
- formless13
- forwards15
- foulness11
- gibbous12
- glumness11
- grampus12
- graphics16
- gratis7
- grimness11
- gummosis13
- gutless8
- habitus12
- hades9
- harass9
- hardness12
- hastings12
- hays10
- haziness20
- heaps10
- hercules13
- herpes11
- hiatus9
- humus10
- iciness9
- icterus9
- igneous8
- ingress8
- inwards11
- iris4
- isthmus12
- james14
- jones12
- judas13
- kindness13
- knickers18
- lameness10
- largess8
- laziness17
- leanness8
- lewis8
- lidless8
- locus7
- longness9
- longways15
- loudness9
- loveless11
- lowness10
- lupus7
- lustrous8
- lysis8
- madras9
- magus8
- maquis17
- marines9
- marquess19
- marquis18
- mateless10
- mayoress13
- meekness14
- meiosis9
- meniscus12
- mephitis15
- mildness11
- miosis8
- modulus10
- monstrous11
- morris8
- muss6
- muteness10
- mutinous10
- myosis11
- nacreous10
- nauseous8
- nautilus8
- neatness8
- newsless11
- nexus12
- niceness10
- nidus6
- nimbus10
- nous4
- nowadays15
- numbers11
- oasis5
- ocellus9
- octopus11
- oddness9
- odorous8
- oestrus7
- oiliness8
- oldness8
- openness10
- optics10
- orchis11
- orleans7
- orris5
- paleness10
- pandanus11
- papyrus14
- patois8
- pegasus10
- pertness10
Words ending in S by length
The most common words of each length, with how many there are in total.
4 letter words ending in S
1,099 words · all 4 letter words
5 letter words ending in S
3,859 words · all 5 letter words
6 letter words ending in S
6,455 words · all 6 letter words
7 letter words ending in S
11,175 words · all 7 letter words
8 letter words ending in S
14,233 words · all 8 letter words
- progress11
- overseas11
- distress9
- upstairs10
- trespass10
- homeless13
- business10
- compress14
- cautious10
- precious12
9 letter words ending in S
15,824 words · all 9 letter words
- bourgeois12
- religious10
- delicious12
- verdigris14
- ambiguous14
- conscious13
- monstrous11
- readiness10
- roughness13
- ambitious13
10 letter words ending in S
15,144 words · all 10 letter words
- crisscross14
- rendezvous23
- cretaceous14
- watercress15
- crossroads13
- bitterness12
- breathless15
- continuous12
- extraneous17
- gregarious12
Highest-scoring words that end in S
Scrabble points before premium squares, with Words With Friends points for comparison.
| Word | Scrabble | Words With Friends |
|---|---|---|
| RAZZAMATAZZES | 51 | 52 |
| RAZZMATAZZES | 50 | 51 |
| BAZZAZZES | 47 | 48 |
| BEZZAZZES | 47 | 48 |
| PAZZAZZES | 47 | 48 |
| PIZZAZZES | 47 | 48 |
| QUIZZIFICATIONS | 47 | 50 |
| ZYZZYVAS | 44 | 43 |
| QUIZZICALITIES | 43 | 46 |
| CHIQUICHIQUIS | 41 | 43 |
| METHOXYBENZENES | 41 | 43 |
| NEBUCHADNEZZARS | 41 | 45 |
Common endings for words that end in S
The letter pairs that end the most S words.
Words ending in ES
35,153 words
- series6
- besides10
- nerves9
- sixties14
- species11
- times7
- twenties11
- blues7
- fifties13
- forties10
Words ending in RS
10,823 words
- upstairs10
- affairs13
- hours8
- years8
- colors8
- letters7
- mars6
- outdoors9
- arrears7
- cobblers14
Words ending in NS
8,809 words
- summons11
- means7
- dickens14
- environs11
- lens4
- loins5
- remains9
- teens5
- burns7
- collins9
Words ending in TS
8,623 words
- lots4
- profits12
- contents10
- scots7
- shorts9
- straits7
- arts4
- comforts15
- flats8
- guts5
Using S in word games
S is a common consonant worth few points on its own, which makes it a workhorse rather than a scorer. Its value is in flexibility: with 103,902 words available, it combines readily with most racks.
The list above is ranked by how often each word appears in written English rather than alphabetically. That ordering matters in play, because a word your opponent recognises is far less likely to be challenged than an obscure one of the same value.
Finding the ones you can actually play
A full list is useful for study, but during a game you need the overlap between the list and your rack. Enter your tiles into the finder above and the results narrow to words that end in S and that your letters can actually build. Add a length filter if you are fitting a specific gap on the board.
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Frequently asked questions
How many words end in S?
There are 103,902 English words that end in S in this dictionary of over 270,000 words, counting inflected forms such as plurals and past tenses.
What are some common words that end in S?
The most common are PASS, MISS, PRESS, ADDRESS, CROSS, DRESS, MASS, TOSS, FOCUS, STRESS. The list on this page is ordered by how frequently each word appears in written English, so the most familiar come first.
What is the highest-scoring word that end in S?
SCHIZOMYCETES is among the highest scoring at 34 points in Scrabble. Words containing Q, Z, X and J score highest because those tiles carry the most points.
How do I find words that end in S using my own letters?
Use the finder at the top of this page. Enter the letters you have, and the results are filtered to words that end in S. You can also set an exact word length.