Word.ws English Dictionary

5-Letter Words Ending in SH

There are 53 five-letter words ending in SH on Word.ws, from abash to yeesh. The most common are fresh, crash, flash, trash and brush.

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All 53 five-letter words ending in SH

A

  • abash10v. To make ashamed; to embarrass; to destroy the self-possession of, as by...
  • apish10adj. Resembling or characteristic of an ape.
  • awash11adj. Washed by the waves or tide (of a rock or strip of shore, or of an...

B

  • blash10n. A heavy fall of rain.
  • blush10n. An act of blushing; a pink or red glow on the face caused by...
  • brash10adj. Overly bold or self-assertive to the point of being insensitive...
  • brush10n. An implement consisting of multiple more or less flexible bristles or...

C

  • clash10n. A loud sound, like the crashing together of metal objects; a crash.
  • crash10n. A sudden, intense, loud sound, as made for example by cymbals.
  • crush10n. A violent collision or compression; a crash; destruction; ruin.

D

  • doosh9interj. Imitating a drum sound in electronic music.
  • drash9n. An exegesis.

F

  • flash11v. To cause to shine briefly or intermittently.
  • flesh11n. The soft tissue of the body, especially muscle and fat.
  • flush11n. A group of birds that have suddenly started up from undergrowth, trees...
  • fresh11adj. Newly produced or obtained; recent.
  • frosh11n. A frog.
  • frush11v. To straighten up (the feathers on an arrow).

G

  • gnash9v. To grind (one's teeth) in pain or in anger.
  • goosh9v. To move in a messy, liquid manner.

H

  • harsh11adj. Unpleasantly rough to the touch or other senses.

J

  • jaish15n. An army or legion.
  • jeesh15interj. Synonym of sheesh.

K

  • khash15n. A dish made from cattle's or sheep's head and/or trotters and eaten...
  • knish12n. An Eastern European Jewish, or Yiddish, snack food consisting of a...

L

  • leash8n. A strap, cord or rope with which to restrain an animal, often a dog.

M

  • marsh10n. An area of low, wet land, often with tall grass or herbaceous plants.
  • mersh10n. Low-grade or commercial-grade marijuana.
  • moosh10n. Alternative spelling of mush (“a form of address to a man”).

P

  • phish13v. To engage in phishing.
  • plash10n. A small pool of standing water; a marshy pond; also, a puddle...
  • plush10adj. Very extravagant.

Q

  • quash17v. To defeat decisively, to suppress.

S

  • shash11n. The scarf of a turban.
  • shish11interj. Used to request quiet; similar to shh.
  • shush11v. To be quiet; to keep quiet.
  • slash8n. A swift, broad cutting stroke, especially one made with an edged weapon...
  • slosh8v. To shift chaotically; to splash noisily.
  • slush8n. Half-melted snow or ice, generally located on the ground.
  • smash10n. The sound of a violent impact; a violent striking together.
  • smush10n. A beaten or pulverized mass.
  • spesh10adj. Special.
  • stash8n. A collection, sometimes hidden.
  • stosh8n. Fish offal.
  • swash11n. The water that washes up on shore after an incoming wave has broken.
  • swish11adj. Sophisticated; fashionable; smooth.

T

  • thish11n. A self-reference to the current issue of a periodical.
  • toosh8n. A light Tibetan shawl; a shahtoosh.
  • trash8n. Useless physical things to be discarded; rubbish; refuse.

W

  • warsh11v. Appalachia, Midland, Ozarks, and Northern Ireland form of wash.
  • welsh11v. To cheat or swindle someone, often by not paying a debt, especially a...
  • whish14n. A sibilant sound, especially that of rapid movement through the air.

Y

  • yeesh11interj. Expressing exasperation or impatience.
31 rare five-letter words ending in SH

Questions about these words

How many five-letter words ending in SH are there?
Word.ws lists 53 five-letter words ending in SH, plus 31 rare ones.
What are common five-letter words ending in SH?
fresh, crash, flash, trash, brush, flesh, crush and welsh.
Which of the five-letter words ending in SH has the highest letter score?
quash scores 17 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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