Five-letter words ending in SE
103 words, number 4 of 285 two-letter endings
Every five-letter word in ENABLE (a public-domain Scrabble-style list, not any game’s answer list) that ends in SE, slurs removed, common words first. 50 of the 103 are common in English dictionaries (the SCOWL grade), which says nothing about any puzzle’s answer. The letter just before SE is most often RSE (17), USE (16), ASE (14).
Open the finder with SE in the last two spotsfor yellow and grey letters, or letters in other spots
103 of 103 words shown
Common 50 words, in SCOWL’s small dictionary sizes (35 or less)
- abuse
- amuse
- arise
- arose
- cause
- cease
- chase
- chose
- close
- curse
- dense
- douse
- erase
- false
- geese
- goose
- guise
- horse
- house
- lapse
- lease
- loose
- louse
- moose
- mouse
- noise
- noose
- nurse
- obese
- parse
- pause
- phase
- poise
- prise
- prose
- pulse
- purse
- raise
- reuse
- rinse
- rouse
- sense
- tease
- tense
- terse
- these
- those
- verse
- whose
- worse
Everyday 8 words, SCOWL sizes 40-50
- abase
- anise
- copse
- dowse
- gorse
- manse
- posse
- souse
Less common 24 words, SCOWL sizes 55-70
- bouse
- bowse
- brose
- burse
- carse
- cense
- corse
- cruse
- druse
- dulse
- erose
- fosse
- frise
- hawse
- morse
- perse
- prase
- prese
- roose
- seise
- tasse
- torse
- ukase
- valse
Rare 21 words, SCOWL sizes 80-95, or not in SCOWL
- birse
- blase
- fease
- fesse
- hanse
- hoise
- jesse
- lense
- lowse
- lyase
- marse
- masse
- mense
- paise
- passe
- pease
- peise
- tawse
- touse
- urase
- youse
No word ending in SE fits both filters. Remove a letter to widen the list.
0 inflected forms: no word ending in SE is a plural or an -s, -es or -ed form under the rule on the word-list index, because that rule only ever catches words ending in S or D.