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5-Letter Words Ending in SSE

There are 11 five-letter words ending in SSE on Word.ws, from basse to wisse. The most common are posse, fosse, sasse, basse and casse.

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

All 11 five-letter words ending in SSE

  • basse7n. The bass voice or part within French music.
  • casse7n. A fault in wine, caused by an enzyme, making it turn from red to brown...
  • fosse8n. A ditch or moat.
  • lisse5n. A fine sheer fabric of silk or cotton used in women's neckwear and in...
  • losse5n. A lynx.
  • nasse5n. Synonym of cyrtos.
  • posse7n. A group or company of people, originally especially one having hostile...
  • rasse5n. Viverricula indica, the small Indian civet.
  • sasse5n. A sluice or lock, as in a river or canal, to make it more navigable.
  • tasse5n. A piece of armor for the hips and thighs: one of a set of plates (each...
  • wisse8v. To show, teach, inform, guide, direct.
1 rare five-letter words ending in SSE

Questions about these words

How many five-letter words ending in SSE are there?
Word.ws lists 11 five-letter words ending in SSE, plus 1 rare ones.
What are common five-letter words ending in SSE?
posse, fosse, sasse, basse, casse, lisse, losse and wisse.
Which of the five-letter words ending in SSE has the highest letter score?
wisse 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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