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5-Letter Words Ending in SO

There are 18 five-letter words ending in SO on Word.ws, from aviso to whoso. The most common are torso, lasso, verso, basso and tasso.

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

All 18 five-letter words ending in SO

  • aviso8n. Advisory; information; advice; intelligence.
  • bakso11n. Indonesian meatball.
  • basso7n. A bass singer, especially in opera.
  • canso7n. A love song sung by a troubadour.
  • danso6n. A small notched, end-blown vertical flute made of bamboo or plastic...
  • disso6n. A dissertation.
  • gesso6n. A mixture of plaster of Paris and glue used to prepare a surface for...
  • kaiso9n. A style of music popular in the Caribbean, a precursor to calypso music.
  • lasso5n. A long rope with a sliding loop on one end, generally used in ranching...
  • misso7n. Missus (“wife or girlfriend”).
  • nutso5adj. Crazy, insane.
  • preso7n. A presentation.
  • proso7n. Panicum miliaceum, a grass used as a crop.
  • shiso8n. Any of several varieties of the herb Perilla frutescens, related to...
  • tasso5n. A Cajun-seasoned, cured pork.
  • torso5n. The main part of the (human) body that extends from the neck to the...
  • verso8n. The back side of a flat object which is to be examined visually, as for...
  • whoso11pron. Whosoever, whatever person.
18 rare five-letter words ending in SO

Questions about these words

How many five-letter words ending in SO are there?
Word.ws lists 18 five-letter words ending in SO, plus 18 rare ones.
What are common five-letter words ending in SO?
torso, lasso, verso, basso, tasso, whoso, gesso and nutso.
Which of the five-letter words ending in SO has the highest letter score?
whoso scores 11 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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