5 Letter Words Ending in SE
Here are all 82 5 letter words ending in SE, from a standard word-game dictionary, with everyday words first. 38 of them are common words; the rest are rarer but still valid in most word games. Use the Wordle helper to add the letters you know.
Most of these words start with P, C, A. Good picks with five different letters include those, house, close, cause.
- Words found
- 82
- Most used
- these
- Most common first letter
- P
Wordle helper: 5 letter words ending in SE
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Common 5 letter words ending in SE
| # | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | house | a dwelling that serves as living quarters for one or more families |
| 2 | close | move so that an opening or passage is obstructed; make shut |
| 3 | cause | give rise to; cause to happen or occur, not always intentionally |
| 4 | sense | a general conscious awareness |
| 5 | worse | (comparative of `bad') inferior to another in quality or condition or desirability |
| 6 | horse | solid-hoofed herbivorous quadruped domesticated since prehistoric times |
| 7 | raise | raise the level or amount of something |
| 8 | abuse | treat badly |
| 9 | phase | any distinct time period in a sequence of events |
| 10 | false | not in accordance with the fact or reality or actuality |
| 11 | chose | pick out, select, or choose from a number of alternatives |
| 12 | noise | sound of any kind (especially unintelligible or dissonant sound) |
| 13 | loose | not compact or dense in structure or arrangement |
| 14 | chase | go after with the intent to catch |
| 15 | nurse | try to cure by special care of treatment, of an illness or injury |
| 16 | mouse | any of numerous small rodents typically resembling diminutive rats having pointed snouts and small ears on... |
| 17 | verse | literature in metrical form |
| 18 | lease | let for money |
| 19 | curse | utter obscenities or profanities |
| 20 | pulse | (electronics) a sharp transient wave in the normal electrical state (or a series of such transients) |
| 21 | cease | put an end to a state or an activity |
| 22 | pause | interrupt temporarily an activity before continuing |
| 23 | dense | permitting little if any light to pass through because of denseness of matter |
| 24 | purse | a container used for carrying money and small personal items or accessories (especially by women) |
| 25 | tense | a grammatical category of verbs used to express distinctions of time |
| 26 | arise | come into existence; take on form or shape |
| 27 | goose | web-footed long-necked typically gregarious migratory aquatic birds usually larger and less aquatic than ducks |
| 28 | arose | come into existence; take on form or shape |
| 29 | prose | ordinary writing as distinguished from verse |
| 30 | obese | excessively fat |
| 31 | erase | remove from memory or existence |
| 32 | moose | large northern deer with enormous flattened antlers in the male |
| 33 | tease | annoy persistently |
| 34 | morse | a telegraph code in which letters and numbers are represented by strings of dots and dashes (short and long... |
| 35 | lapse | a mistake resulting from inattention |
| 36 | rinse | wash off soap or remaining dirt |
| 37 | guise | an artful or simulated semblance |
| 38 | reuse | use again after processing |
| 39 | geese | web-footed long-necked typically gregarious migratory aquatic birds usually larger and less aquatic than ducks |
| 40 | posse | a temporary police force |
5 letter words ending in se, by first letter
A (6)
- abuse
- arise
- arose
- amuse
- anise
- abase
B (3)
- blase
- brose
- burse
C (10)
- close
- cause
- chose
- chase
- curse
- cease
- corse
- copse
- cruse
- carse
D (4)
- dense
- douse
- dowse
- druse
E (1)
- erase
F (3)
- false
- fosse
- frise
G (4)
- goose
- guise
- geese
- gorse
H (3)
- house
- horse
- hanse
J (1)
- jesse
L (6)
- loose
- lease
- lapse
- louse
- lense
- lyase
M (6)
- mouse
- moose
- morse
- masse
- manse
- mense
N (3)
- noise
- nurse
- noose
O (1)
- obese
P (14)
- phase
- pulse
- pause
- purse
- prose
- posse
- poise
- parse
- pease
- passe
- prise
- paise
- perse
- prese
R (5)
- raise
- rinse
- reuse
- rouse
- roose
S (2)
- sense
- souse
T (5)
- these
- those
- tense
- tease
- terse
V (2)
- verse
- valse
W (2)
- whose
- worse
Y (1)
- youse
More 5 letter word lists
ending in A ending in B ending in C ending in D ending in E ending in F ending in G ending in H ending in I ending in K ending in L ending in M ending in N ending in O ending in P ending in R ending in S ending in T ending in U ending in W ending in X ending in Y ending in Z ending in AE ending in AL ending in AN ending in AR ending in AT ending in CE ending in DE
Questions people ask
How many 5 letter words ending in SE are there?
This list has 82, taken from a standard word-game dictionary and limited to words seen in real English text.
What are common 5 letter words ending in SE?
these, those, house, close, cause, sense, whose, worse.
Which 5 letter words ending in SE are good Wordle guesses?
those, house, close, cause, whose, worse use five different letters, so each guess tests more of the alphabet.
Source: the ENABLE word list (a public-domain dictionary used for word games), ranked by how often each word appears in English text (the open wordfreq project), with short meanings from Princeton WordNet. Offensive words are left out.