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5-Letter Words Ending in RSE

There are 21 five-letter words ending in RSE on Word.ws, from barse to worse. The most common are worse, horse, nurse, verse and curse.

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All 21 five-letter words ending in RSE

  • barse7n. The perch; any of various marine and freshwater fish resembling the...
  • birse7n. Bristle.
  • burse7n. A purse.
  • carse7n. Low, fertile land; a river valley.
  • corse7n. A (living) body.
  • curse7n. A supernatural detriment or hindrance; a bane.
  • farse8n. A vernacular paraphrase inserted into Latin liturgy.
  • gorse6n. An evergreen shrub, of the genus Ulex, having thorns, spiny leaves, and...
  • herse8n. A kind of gate or portcullis, having iron bars, like a harrow, studded...
  • horse8n. A hoofed mammal, Equus ferus caballus, often used throughout history...
  • merse7n. Alluvial, often marshy land by the side of a river, estuary or sea.
  • morse7n. A clasp or fastening used to fasten a cope in the front, usually...
  • murse7n. A man's purse.
  • nurse5n. Anyone performing this role, regardless of training or profession.
  • parse7v. To resolve (a sentence, etc.) into its elements, pointing out the...
  • perse7n. A very dark (almost black) purple or blue-gray colour.
  • purse7n. A small bag for carrying money.
  • terse5adj. Of speech or style: brief, concise, to the point.
  • torse5n. A twist of cloth or wreath, typically placed underneath and forming...
  • verse8n. A poetic form with regular meter and a fixed rhyme scheme.
  • worse8adv. Less skillfully.
3 rare five-letter words ending in RSE

Questions about these words

How many five-letter words ending in RSE are there?
Word.ws lists 21 five-letter words ending in RSE, plus 3 rare ones.
What are common five-letter words ending in RSE?
worse, horse, nurse, verse, curse, purse, morse and parse.
Which of the five-letter words ending in RSE has the highest letter score?
worse scores 8 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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