5-Letter Words Ending in IST
There are 22 five-letter words ending in IST on Word.ws, from alist to zeist. The most common are exist, twist, wrist, waist and moist.
Meanings from Wiktionary. Not an official Scrabble, Words With Friends or Wordle word list.
All 22 five-letter words ending in IST
- alist5n. An association list.
- arist5n. A rising, as from a seat, a bed, or the ground, or from below the...
- buist7n. A box or chest.
- deist6adj. Of or relating to deism and deists.
- exist12v. To be; have existence; have being or reality.
- feist8n. A small, snappy, belligerent mixed-breed dog; a feist dog.
- foist8v. To introduce or insert surreptitiously or without warrant.
- frist8n. Time allotted for repayment; a term (in which a debt is to be repaid)...
- geist6n. A ghost, an apparition.
- grist6n. Grain that is to be ground in a mill.
- heist8n. A robbery or burglary, especially from an institution such as a bank or...
- hoist8v. To raise; to lift; to elevate (especially, to raise or lift to a...
- joist12n. A piece of timber or steel laid horizontally, or nearly so, to which...
- moist7adj. Characterized by the presence of moisture; not dry; slightly wet; damp.
- quist14n. The wood pigeon, Columba palumbus.
- reist5n. A proponent of reism.
- trist5n. Trust, faith.
- twist8n. A twisting force.
- waist8n. The part of the body between the pelvis and the stomach.
- whist11n. Any of several four-player card games, similar to bridge.
- wrist8n. The complex joint between forearm bones, carpus, and metacarpals where...
- zeist14n. One who believed that maize was the cause of pellagra.
Questions about these words
- How many five-letter words ending in IST are there?
- Word.ws lists 22 five-letter words ending in IST, plus 8 rare ones.
- What are common five-letter words ending in IST?
- exist, twist, wrist, waist, moist, heist, hoist and grist.
- Which of the five-letter words ending in IST has the highest letter score?
- zeist scores 14 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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