Daily word games to challenge your mind
A curated list of 5-letter words tailored to this exact pattern. Endings like SE often mark word families—helpful to confirm tense or morphology. For example: abase, abuse, amuse.
| Word | Definition | Length | Syllables |
|---|---|---|---|
| abase | 5 | 2 | |
| abuse | 5 | 2 | |
| amuse | 5 | 2 | |
| anise | 5 | 2 | |
| arise | 5 | 2 | |
| arose | 5 | 2 | |
| birse | 5 | 1 | |
| blase | 5 | 1 | |
| bouse | 5 | 1 | |
| bowse | 5 | 1 | |
| brose | 5 | 1 | |
| burse | 5 | 1 | |
| carse | 5 | 1 | |
| cause | 5 | 1 | |
| cease | 5 | 1 | |
| cense | 5 | 1 | |
| chase | 5 | 1 | |
| chose | 5 | 1 | |
| close | 5 | 1 | |
| copse | 5 | 1 | |
| corse | 5 | 1 | |
| cruse | 5 | 1 | |
| curse | 5 | 1 | |
| dense | 5 | 1 | |
| douse | 5 | 1 | |
| dowse | 5 | 1 | |
| druse | 5 | 1 | |
| dulse | 5 | 1 | |
| erase | 5 | 2 | |
| erose | 5 | 2 | |
| false | 5 | 1 | |
| fease | 5 | 1 | |
| fesse | 5 | 1 | |
| fosse | 5 | 1 | |
| frise | 5 | 1 | |
| geese | 5 | 1 | |
| goose | 5 | 1 | |
| gorse | 5 | 1 | |
| guise | 5 | 1 | |
| hanse | 5 | 1 | |
| hawse | 5 | 1 | |
| hoise | 5 | 1 | |
| horse | 5 | 1 | |
| house | 5 | 1 | |
| jesse | 5 | 1 | |
| lapse | 5 | 1 | |
| lease | 5 | 1 | |
| lense | 5 | 1 | |
| loose | 5 | 1 | |
| louse | 5 | 1 | |
| lowse | 5 | 1 | |
| lyase | 5 | 1 | |
| manse | 5 | 1 | |
| marse | 5 | 1 | |
| masse | 5 | 1 | |
| mense | 5 | 1 | |
| moose | 5 | 1 | |
| morse | 5 | 1 | |
| mouse | 5 | 1 | |
| noise | 5 | 1 | |
| noose | 5 | 1 | |
| nurse | 5 | 1 | |
| obese | 5 | 2 | |
| paise | 5 | 1 | |
| parse | 5 | 1 | |
| passe | 5 | 1 | |
| pause | 5 | 1 | |
| pease | 5 | 1 | |
| peise | 5 | 1 | |
| perse | 5 | 1 | |
| phase | 5 | 1 | |
| poise | 5 | 1 | |
| posse | 5 | 1 | |
| prase | 5 | 1 | |
| prese | 5 | 1 | |
| prise | 5 | 1 | |
| prose | 5 | 1 | |
| pulse | 5 | 1 | |
| purse | 5 | 1 | |
| raise | 5 | 1 | |
| reuse | 5 | 1 | |
| rinse | 5 | 1 | |
| roose | 5 | 1 | |
| rouse | 5 | 1 | |
| seise | 5 | 1 | |
| sense | 5 | 1 | |
| souse | 5 | 1 | |
| tasse | 5 | 1 | |
| tawse | 5 | 1 | |
| tease | 5 | 1 | |
| tense | 5 | 1 | |
| terse | 5 | 1 | |
| these | 5 | 1 | |
| those | 5 | 1 | |
| torse | 5 | 1 | |
| touse | 5 | 1 | |
| ukase | 5 | 2 | |
| urase | 5 | 2 | |
| valse | 5 | 1 | |
| verse | 5 | 1 | |
| whose | 5 | 1 | |
| worse | 5 | 1 | |
| youse | 5 | 1 |
What’s typical about SE-ending words?
SE often marks suffix families; think about derivatives when guessing.
Do you include UK/US spellings?
Where they exist, both may appear.