5-letter words with S

There are 3,964 five-letter words with S in our word list. 773 of them are common everyday words, such as FIRST, THESE, BASED and HOUSE.

More words in our list start with S than with any other letter, and adding S makes most nouns plural, so S is one of the most flexible letters in word games.

Five-letter words are the format of the most popular daily word guessing games. A strong first guess uses five different common letters.

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5-letter words (3,964)

first

these

based

house

music

since

small

start

state

still

those

times

years

areas

asked

books

cases

cause

class

comes

cross

focus

games

girls

gives

guess

hands

hours

issue

knows

least

lives

looks

makes

means

miles

needs

parts

plans

press

rules

sales

seems

sense

seven

shall

short

shows

sleep

sorry

sound

south

space

speak

speed

spent

staff

stage

stand

store

story

study

stuff

style

super

takes

terms

trust

using

visit

wants

weeks

whose

words

works

abuse

aside

balls

banks

basic

basis

bills

birds

calls

cards

cells

chest

chose

clubs

coast

costs

crash

dates

deals

doors

dress

drugs

exist

faces

facts

falls

false

feels

films

finds

folks

forms

fresh

funds

glass

goals

goods

guest

heads

helps

holds

homes

horse

ideas

items

jones

keeps

kinds

leads

likes

lines

links

loans

louis

loves

moves

names

noise

notes

pages

paris

phase

plays

posts

raise

rates

roads

rooms

saved

scale

scene

score

seats

serve

shame

shape

shift

ships

shirt

shoes

shoot

shots

shown

sides

sight

signs

sites

smart

smile

smith

smoke

solar

solid

songs

spend

split

spoke

sport

squad

stars

steam

steel

steps

stick

stock

stone

stood

storm

stuck

sugar

swear

sweet

talks

taste

taxes

teams

tells

tests

texas

tools

trees

tries

turns

types

units

upset

users

usual

views

votes

wales

walls

waste

worse

worst

yards

yours

acres

asset

backs

bands

bases

basin

beans

bears

beast

beats

blast

bless

blows

blues

boats

bombs

bonds

bones

bonus

boost

boots

boxes

brass

brush

bucks

burns

burst

buses

camps

cares

cease

cents

chaos

chase

chips

clips

codes

coins

corps

costa

crops

crush

curse

draws

drops

edges

essay

exams

fails

farms

fears

files

fires

firms

flags

flash

flesh

flies

flows

foods

gains

gates

genes

ghost

gifts

grass

gross

grows

harsh

hates

heels

hills

holes

hopes

hosts

hurts

jeans

jesse

joins

jokes

kicks

kills

kings

knees

lakes

lands

laser

lease

lewis

lions

lists

loads

loose

lords

loser

loses

males

marks

mason

meals

meets

mills

minds

mines

minus

mouse

nails

nasty

nurse

opens

pairs

pants

parks

paths

pause

peers

penis

picks

pills

poems

polls

ports

pulls

pulse

quest

races

ranks

reads

rides

rings

rises

risks

rocks

roles

rolls

roots

roses

ruins

sadly

safer

saint

salad

sandy

sauce

saves

scare

scary

scope

screw

seeds

seeks

sells

sends

setup

shade

shake

shark

sharp

sheep

sheer

sheet

shelf

shell

shine

shock

shook

shops

shore

shout

silly

sixth

sized

sizes

skill

skull

slave

slept

slice

slide

smash

smell

snake

socks

solve

sorts

souls

spare

spell

spite

spots

spray

spurs

stack

stake

stamp

stark

stats

stays

steal

stole

stops

strip

sucks

suite

suits

sunny

sweat

swift

swing

swiss

sword

tales

tanks

tasks

tears

teens

tends

texts

tires

tours

towns

trans

trash

trips

twins

twist

usage

verse

virus

wages

walks

waves

wears

wells

welsh

winds

wings

wives

woods

wrist

zones

acids

aisle

arise

arose

ashes

atlas

atoms

basil

bates

baths

beads

beams

beers

bells

belts

bikes

bites

bliss

blush

boast

bolts

bowls

brits

bulbs

bulls

bumps

cakes

caste

casts

caves

chefs

chess

cites

clash

claws

clues

coats

colts

cooks

cores

crest

crews

cries

crisp

crust

daisy

debts

decks

deeds

dense

diets

disco

discs

docks

dolls

doses

downs

drums

ducks

dudes

dusty

earns

erase

euros

exits

fares

feast

feeds

fetus

fills

fines

fixes

flats

flaws

flush

fools

fries

frogs

frost

fuels

gangs

gases

gears

genus

goats

goose

grabs

grams

grasp

gypsy

hairs

halls

hangs

hawks

hears

heirs

herbs

hicks

hides

highs

hints

hooks

horns

icons

isles

johns

jumps

knots

lacks

lamps

lanes

lasts

leafs

leaks

lifts

limbs

locks

logos

loops

lotus

lungs

mails

marsh

masks

mates

maths

messy

midst

mixes

modes

moist

monks

moose

morse

myths

nazis

nexus

nodes

noisy

norms

oasis

obese

onset

overs

packs

Good first guesses

These common words use five different letters that appear often in five-letter words, so they rule out the most letters in one guess:

raise
laser
least
steal
scare

Questions

How many five-letter words with S are there?

Our word list has 3,964 five-letter words with S. 773 of them are common everyday words.

What are some common five-letter words with S?

The most common are FIRST, THESE, BASED, HOUSE, MUSIC and SINCE.

Which five-letter word with S scores the most points?

Using standard letter tile values, ZAXES scores 21 points, the most of any five-letter word with S in our list.

What is a good first guess in a five-letter word game?

Words with five different, frequent letters give you the most information. Good choices from this list are RAISE, LASER, LEAST and STEAL.

5-letter words with S

5-letter words (3,964)

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