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5-Letter Words Ending in ES

There are 74 five-letter words ending in ES on Word.ws, from abies to yikes. The most common are times, comes, sales, miles and lines.

Meanings from Wiktionary. Not an official Scrabble, Words With Friends or Wordle word list.

All 74 five-letter words ending in ES

A

  • abies7n. A tree of the genus Abies.
  • aloes5n. The resin of the tree Aquilaria malaccensis (syn. Aquilaria agallocha)...

B

  • blues7n. A feeling of sadness or depression.
  • bones7n. A percussive folk musical instrument played as a pair in one hand...

C

  • canes7n. Bamboo plants of genus Arundinaria, the sole temperate genus of bamboo...
  • cates7n. Provisions; food; viands; especially, luxurious food; delicacies...
  • claes7n. Clothes.
  • cokes11n. A simpleton; a dupe.
  • comes9n. The answer to the theme, or dux, in a fugue.
  • cubes9n. Testicles.
  • cutes7n. Cuteness.

D

  • dudes7n. Any group of people, regardless of gender.
  • dukes10n. One's parents.
  • dykes13n. Diagonal cutting pliers; diagonal pliers; diagonal cutters; wire...

E

  • eaves8n. The underside of a roof that extends beyond the external walls of a...
  • edges7n. The fine hairs at the edge of someone's (usually a black woman's)...
  • eques14n. A member of the equestrian order (Latin: ordo equester), the lower of...
  • esses5n. A sequence of winding turns.

F

  • feces10n. Digested waste material (typically solid or semi-solid) discharged from...
  • fines8n. Fine particles, whether or not airborne.
  • fives11n. A ball game, somewhat like tennis, played against a wall.
  • flies8n. The open area above a stage where scenery and equipment may be hung.
  • flues8n. Bits of down.
  • fomes10n. Morbid matter created by a disease.

G

  • gapes8n. A fit of yawning.
  • gules6n. Red, e.g. on a coat of arms, typically represented in engraving by...

H

  • hames10n. A mess.
  • haves11n. The wealthy or privileged, and those with power and possessions.
  • hives11n. Itchy, swollen, red areas of the skin which can appear quickly in...

J

  • jakes16n. A place to urinate and defecate: an outhouse or lavatory.
  • jokes16adj. Really good.
  • jones12n. An addiction or intense craving.

L

  • lames7n. Small steel plates combined so as to slide one upon other and form a...
  • lanes5n. Bowling alley.
  • lates5n. Any of various large fish of genus Lates, especially the Nile perch...
  • limes7n. A boundary or border, especially of the Roman Empire.
  • lines5n. Words spoken by the actors.

M

  • manes7n. The souls or spirits of dead ancestors, conceived as deities or the...
  • mates7adj. Friendly; having a friendship (with).
  • miles7n. A great distance in space or time.
  • mores7n. A set of moral norms or customs derived from generally accepted...
  • moves10n. A good ability to dance.
  • mules7v. To remove skin from (an animal) to prevent myiasis.

N

  • nates5n. The two anterior of the four lobes on the dorsal side of the midbrain...
  • nemes7n. A headcloth worn by pharaohs.
  • nines5n. A pair of nines.
  • nixes12n. Nothing.
  • nones5n. The notional first-quarter day of a Roman month, occurring on the 7th...

P

  • pedes8n. Pediatrics.
  • piles7n. A large amount of.
  • pipes9n. A single pipe organ.
  • pubes9n. The pubic region.

R

  • rates5n. Taxes, usually on property, levied by local government.
  • ropes7n. Basic skills of a job.
  • rupes7n. An escarpment on another planet or a moon.

S

  • sales5n. The activities involved in selling goods or services.
  • sedes6n. The position a word or phrase occupies within the meter.
  • sines5n. Pair of sixes of dice.
  • sixes12n. A pair of sixes.
  • supes7adv. Super; extremely.

T

  • tabes7n. A kind of slow bodily wasting or emaciating disease, often accompanying...
  • tales5n. A person available to fill vacancies in a jury.
  • teres5n. A terete muscle.
  • times7n. The circumstances of a certain time.
  • totes5adv. Totally.
  • tubes7n. The inner workings of one's body.

V

  • vates8n. A poet or bard who is divinely inspired.
  • vires8n. The state of being either ultra vires or intra vires; the extent of a...
  • vives11n. A disease of animals, especially horses, based in the glands under the...

W

  • wages9n. One's total income for a time period.
  • wakes12n. A community holiday, particularly in northern England.
  • wares8n. Goods or services that are for sale.

Y

  • yeees8interj. Elongated form of yes.
  • yikes12interj. Expression of shock and alarm.
6 rare five-letter words ending in ES

Questions about these words

How many five-letter words ending in ES are there?
Word.ws lists 74 five-letter words ending in ES, plus 6 rare ones.
What are common five-letter words ending in ES?
times, comes, sales, miles, lines, rates, jones and moves.
Which of the five-letter words ending in ES has the highest letter score?
jokes scores 16 points with the standard letter tile values.

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Word lists and meanings adapted from the Wiktionary entry of each word. Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws left out names, abbreviations, misspellings and offensive words, and ordered the most common words by how often they appear in English (wordfreq). Meanings from Wiktionary; this is not an official Scrabble, Words With Friends or Wordle word list. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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