Daily word games to challenge your mind
A curated list of 5-letter words tailored to this exact pattern. Endings like IST often mark word families—helpful to confirm tense or morphology. For example: agist, alist, deist.
| Word | Definition | Length | Syllables |
|---|---|---|---|
| agist | 5 | 2 | |
| alist | 5 | 2 | |
| deist | 5 | 1 | |
| exist | 5 | 2 | |
| feist | 5 | 1 | |
| foist | 5 | 1 | |
| grist | 5 | 1 | |
| heist | 5 | 1 | |
| hoist | 5 | 1 | |
| joist | 5 | 1 | |
| maist | 5 | 1 | |
| moist | 5 | 1 | |
| neist | 5 | 1 | |
| odist | 5 | 2 | |
| shist | 5 | 1 | |
| twist | 5 | 1 | |
| waist | 5 | 1 | |
| whist | 5 | 1 | |
| wrist | 5 | 1 |
What’s typical about IST-ending words?
IST often marks suffix families; think about derivatives when guessing.
Do you include UK/US spellings?
Where they exist, both may appear.