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5-Letter Words Ending in SS

There are 32 five-letter words ending in SS on Word.ws, from abyss to yesss. The most common are class, guess, press, cross and glass.

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

All 32 five-letter words ending in SS

  • abyss10n. Hell; the bottomless pit; primeval chaos; a confined subterranean ocean.
  • amass7v. To collect into a mass or heap.
  • amiss7adj. Wrong; faulty; out of order; improper or otherwise incorrect.
  • bless7v. To make something holy by religious rite, sanctify.
  • bliss7n. Perfect happiness.
  • brass7n. A memorial or sepulchral tablet usually made of brass or latten: a...
  • chess10n. A board game for two players, each beginning with sixteen chess pieces...
  • class7n. A group, collection, category or set sharing characteristics or...
  • crass7adj. Coarse; crude; unrefined or insensitive; lacking discrimination or...
  • cress7n. A plant of various species, chiefly cruciferous. The leaves have a...
  • cross7n. A geometrical figure consisting of two straight lines or bars...
  • dress6v. To put clothes (or, formerly, armour) on (oneself or someone, a doll, a...
  • dross6n. Residue that forms as a scum on the surface of molten metal from...
  • floss8n. A thread used to clean the gaps between the teeth.
  • frass8n. The droppings or excrement of insect larvae.
  • fress8v. To eat without restraint; eat heartily.
  • gauss6n. The unit of magnetic field strength in CGS systems of units, equal to...
  • glass6n. An amorphous solid, often transparent substance, usually made by...
  • gloss6n. A surface shine or luster.
  • grass6n. Any plant of the family Poaceae, characterized by leaves that arise...
  • gross6adj. Remarkably great, big, vast in an often unpleasant way; (of behaviour)...
  • guess6v. To reach a partly (or totally) unconfirmed conclusion; to engage in...
  • kvass12n. A fermented cereal-based low alcoholic beverage, often flavored with...
  • loess5n. Any sediment, dominated by silt, of eolian (wind-blown) origin.
  • press7n. An instance of applying pressure; an instance of pressing.
  • priss7n. A prissy person.
  • pross7n. A prostitute.
  • stoss5adj. Used to describe one side of roche moutonnée.
  • swiss8v. To prepare (meat, fabric, etc.) by rolling or pounding in order to...
  • tress5n. A braid, knot, or curl, of hair; a ringlet.
  • truss5n. A bandage and belt used to hold a hernia in place.
  • yesss8interj. Elongated form of yes.
13 rare five-letter words ending in SS

Questions about these words

How many five-letter words ending in SS are there?
Word.ws lists 32 five-letter words ending in SS, plus 13 rare ones.
What are common five-letter words ending in SS?
class, guess, press, cross, glass, dress, gross and grass.
Which of the five-letter words ending in SS has the highest letter score?
kvass scores 12 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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