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5-Letter Words Ending in OS

There are 26 five-letter words ending in OS on Word.ws, from adios to zeros. The most common are chaos, logos, kudos, demos and ethos.

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

All 26 five-letter words ending in OS

  • adios6interj. Goodbye.
  • artos5n. A loaf of leavened bread that is blessed during services in the Eastern...
  • aulos5n. Any of a class of ancient Greek musical instruments resembling pipes or...
  • bigos8n. A traditional Polish stew containing cabbage and meat.
  • binos7n. Binoculars.
  • chaos10n. The unordered state of matter in classical accounts of cosmogony.
  • demos8n. An ancient subdivision of Attica; (now also) a Greek municipality, an...
  • dinos6n. An Ancient Greek mixing-bowl or cauldron, without handles or feet.
  • eidos6n. Form; essence; type; species.
  • ethos8n. The character or fundamental values of a person, people, culture, or...
  • finos8n. Second-best wool from Merino sheep.
  • horos8n. A stone marking a boundary in Ancient Greece.
  • kudos10n. Praise; accolades.
  • logos6n. A form of rhetoric in which the writer or speaker uses logical argument...
  • lotos5n. Dated spelling of lotus.
  • melos7n. The melody in Ancient Greek music.
  • meros7n. The proximal segment of the hind limb; the thigh.
  • moros7n. A dish of black beans and white riced cooked together; congri.
  • neros5n. A period of 600 years.
  • nomos7n. The body of law, especially that governing human behaviour.
  • oikos9n. A basic societal unit in Ancient Greece; a household or family line.
  • saros5n. A quantity of 3600, such as a period of 3600 years.
  • telos5n. The aim, purpose, or end goal.
  • tomos7n. An ecclesiastical document, usually promulgated by a synod which...
  • topos7n. A literary theme or motif; a rhetorical convention or formula.
  • zeros14n. The decade of the 1800s, 1900s, 2000s, etc. The noughties. The 2000s.
15 rare five-letter words ending in OS

Questions about these words

How many five-letter words ending in OS are there?
Word.ws lists 26 five-letter words ending in OS, plus 15 rare ones.
What are common five-letter words ending in OS?
chaos, logos, kudos, demos, ethos, zeros, adios and dinos.
Which of the five-letter words ending in OS has the highest letter score?
zeros 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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