Daily word games to challenge your mind
A curated list of 5-letter words tailored to this exact pattern. Endings like STS often mark word families—helpful to confirm tense or morphology. For example: basts, bests, busts.
| Word | Definition | Length | Syllables |
|---|---|---|---|
| basts | 5 | 1 | |
| bests | 5 | 1 | |
| busts | 5 | 1 | |
| casts | 5 | 1 | |
| cists | 5 | 1 | |
| costs | 5 | 1 | |
| cysts | 5 | 1 | |
| dusts | 5 | 1 | |
| easts | 5 | 1 | |
| fasts | 5 | 1 | |
| fists | 5 | 1 | |
| gasts | 5 | 1 | |
| gests | 5 | 1 | |
| gists | 5 | 1 | |
| gusts | 5 | 1 | |
| hests | 5 | 1 | |
| hists | 5 | 1 | |
| hosts | 5 | 1 | |
| jests | 5 | 1 | |
| justs | 5 | 1 | |
| kists | 5 | 1 | |
| lasts | 5 | 1 | |
| lists | 5 | 1 | |
| lusts | 5 | 1 | |
| masts | 5 | 1 | |
| mists | 5 | 1 | |
| mosts | 5 | 1 | |
| musts | 5 | 1 | |
| nests | 5 | 1 | |
| oasts | 5 | 1 | |
| ousts | 5 | 1 | |
| pasts | 5 | 1 | |
| pests | 5 | 1 | |
| posts | 5 | 1 | |
| rests | 5 | 1 | |
| rusts | 5 | 1 | |
| tests | 5 | 1 | |
| vasts | 5 | 1 | |
| vests | 5 | 1 | |
| wasts | 5 | 1 | |
| wests | 5 | 1 | |
| wists | 5 | 1 | |
| xysts | 5 | 1 | |
| zests | 5 | 1 |
What’s typical about STS-ending words?
STS often marks suffix families; think about derivatives when guessing.
Do you include UK/US spellings?
Where they exist, both may appear.