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-ez

-ez is the eye dialect spelling of -es.

Meaning of -es

Suffix

-es

  1. ch, when pronounced as /tʃ/: glitch→glitches (but psych→psychs)
  2. j: hajj→hajjes (j is only final in loan words raj, hajj)
  3. s: bus→buses, Jones → Joneses; yes → yeses.
  4. x: box→boxes
  5. z: buzz → buzzes, waltz → waltzes
  6. sh: ash→ashes

See all 17 meanings of -es

Questions about -ez

What is -ez the eye dialect spelling of?
-ez is the eye dialect spelling of -es.

Words near -ez in the dictionary

  1. -euse
  2. -ever
  3. -ex
  4. -exia
  5. -ey
  6. -ez
  7. -f
  8. -facient
  9. -faction
  10. -facture
  11. -fag

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Adapted from Wiktionary: -ez (page history and authors); -es (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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