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6-letter words with S as the 5th letter

A curated list of 6-letter words tailored to this exact pattern. Use this when S is fixed in the 5th slot; rotate high-frequency consonants elsewhere to prune fast. For example: abbess, ablest, ablush.

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514 words

Word	Length	Syllables
abbess	6	2
ablest	6	2
ablush	6	2
access	6	2
accost	6	2
accuse	6	2
across	6	2
adjust	6	2
admass	6	2
advise	6	2
afresh	6	2
aftosa	6	3
ageism	6	2
ageist	6	2
aghast	6	2
aguish	6	2
ahimsa	6	3
ahorse	6	2
airest	6	2
aldose	6	2
almost	6	2
ambush	6	2
amidst	6	2
anenst	6	2
ankush	6	2
aorist	6	2
appose	6	2
aptest	6	2
argosy	6	3
ariose	6	2
ariosi	6	3
arioso	6	3
arkose	6	2
arouse	6	2
arrest	6	2
artist	6	2
aspish	6	2
assess	6	2
assist	6	2
attest	6	2
august	6	2
aurist	6	2
autism	6	2
averse	6	2
avulse	6	2
awless	6	2
badass	6	2
bagass	6	2
ballsy	6	2
banish	6	2
barest	6	2
basest	6	2
behest	6	2
bekiss	6	2
bemist	6	2
bemuse	6	2
betise	6	2
biopsy	6	2
blouse	6	1
blousy	6	2
blowsy	6	2
bluest	6	1
bluesy	6	2
bluish	6	1
bourse	6	1
boyish	6	1
braise	6	1
brassy	6	2
breast	6	1
browse	6	1
bruise	6	1
bypass	6	2
bypast	6	2
calash	6	2
calesa	6	3
camass	6	2
camisa	6	3
camise	6	2
caress	6	2
cayuse	6	1
cerise	6	2
ceruse	6	2
chaise	6	1
chasse	6	1
cheese	6	1
cheesy	6	2
chiasm	6	1
choose	6	1
choosy	6	2
chouse	6	1
choush	6	1
chowse	6	1
chrism	6	1
civism	6	2
classy	6	2
clause	6	1
clumsy	6	2
coarse	6	1
cohosh	6	2
cohost	6	2
comose	6	2
corpse	6	1
course	6	1
coyest	6	1
coyish	6	1
crease	6	1
creasy	6	2
creese	6	1
creesh	6	1
crissa	6	2
crosse	6	1
crouse	6	1
cruise	6	1
cubism	6	2
cubist	6	2
cuisse	6	1
curtsy	6	2
cutest	6	2
cutesy	6	3
cymose	6	2
dalasi	6	3
damask	6	2
danish	6	2
debase	6	2
defuse	6	2
degust	6	2
delist	6	2
demast	6	2
demise	6	2
depose	6	2
desist	6	2
detest	6	2
devest	6	2
devise	6	2
dicast	6	2
digest	6	2
direst	6	2
disuse	6	2
divest	6	2
dovish	6	2
dressy	6	2
driest	6	1
dropsy	6	2
drossy	6	2
drowse	6	1
drowsy	6	2
dryest	6	1
dryish	6	1
dudish	6	2
duress	6	2
dynast	6	2
effuse	6	2
egoism	6	2
egoist	6	2
egress	6	2
elapse	6	2
eldest	6	2
elfish	6	2
elvish	6	2
embosk	6	2
emboss	6	2
encase	6	2
encash	6	2
encyst	6	2
enlist	6	2
enmesh	6	2
eonism	6	2
excess	6	2
excise	6	2
excuse	6	2
expose	6	2
famish	6	2
favism	6	2
fetish	6	2
fewest	6	2
feyest	6	1
filose	6	2
finest	6	2
finish	6	2
flense	6	1
fliest	6	1
flimsy	6	2
floosy	6	2
flossy	6	2
folksy	6	2
footsy	6	2
forest	6	2
fraise	6	1
freest	6	1
frowst	6	1
frowsy	6	2
fucose	6	2
funest	6	2
gainst	6	1
galosh	6	2
gamest	6	2
garish	6	2
gayest	6	1
glassy	6	2
glossa	6	2
glossy	6	2
gneiss	6	1
golosh	6	2
goyish	6	1
grassy	6	2
grease	6	1
greasy	6	2
grilse	6	1
grouse	6	1
gyrase	6	2
gyrose	6	2
halest	6	2
harass	6	2
hearse	6	1
heresy	6	3
hexose	6	2
hoarse	6	1
holism	6	2
holist	6	2
honest	6	2
hugest	6	2
iciest	6	2
idlest	6	2
illest	6	2
immesh	6	2
impish	6	2
impose	6	2
impost	6	2
incase	6	2
incest	6	2
incise	6	2
incuse	6	2
infest	6	2
infuse	6	2
ingest	6	2
inmesh	6	2
inmost	6	2
inrush	6	2
insist	6	2
invest	6	2
iodise	6	2
iodism	6	2
ionise	6	2
jadish	6	2
jocose	6	2
jurist	6	2
kaross	6	2
kavass	6	2
ketose	6	2
kibosh	6	2
kinase	6	2
kousso	6	2
kumiss	6	2
kuvasz	6	2
kybosh	6	2
lamest	6	2
lanose	6	2
latest	6	2
latish	6	2
lavish	6	2
laxest	6	2
legist	6	2
liaise	6	1
ligase	6	2
likest	6	2
limpsy	6	2
lipase	6	2
livest	6	2
locust	6	2
lowest	6	2
lowish	6	2
lutist	6	2
lyrism	6	2
lyrist	6	2
marish	6	2
mayest	6	1
medusa	6	3
megass	6	2
merest	6	2
mimosa	6	3
minish	6	2
misuse	6	2
modest	6	2
modish	6	2
molest	6	2
momism	6	2
mongst	6	1
monish	6	2
monism	6	2
monist	6	2
mopish	6	2
morass	6	2
morose	6	2
mousse	6	1
mucosa	6	3
mucose	6	2
mulish	6	2
mutase	6	2
mutest	6	2
mutism	6	2
mysost	6	2
nanism	6	2
newest	6	2
newish	6	2
nicest	6	2
nodose	6	2
nomism	6	2
nonuse	6	2
nowise	6	2
nudest	6	2
nudism	6	2
nudist	6	2
oafish	6	2
obiism	6	2
oblast	6	2
oboist	6	2
obsess	6	2
obtest	6	2
obtuse	6	2
oddest	6	2
oddish	6	2
offish	6	2
oftest	6	2
ogress	6	2
ogrish	6	2
ogrism	6	2
oldest	6	2
oldish	6	2
onrush	6	2
oocyst	6	2
oppose	6	2
orgasm	6	2
osmose	6	2
otiose	6	2
outask	6	2
owlish	6	2
palest	6	2
palish	6	2
papist	6	2
parish	6	2
pavise	6	2
perish	6	2
peruse	6	2
phrase	6	1
pilose	6	2
please	6	1
plisse	6	1
polish	6	2
popish	6	2
porism	6	2
porose	6	2
potash	6	2
praise	6	1
priest	6	1
prissy	6	2
punish	6	2
purest	6	2
purism	6	2
purist	6	2
queasy	6	2
quinsy	6	2
qurush	6	2
racism	6	2
racist	6	2
radish	6	2
rakish	6	2
ramose	6	2
rapist	6	2
rarest	6	2
ravish	6	2
rawest	6	2
rawish	6	2
recast	6	2
recess	6	2
recuse	6	2
refuse	6	2
rehash	6	2
relish	6	2
relist	6	2
remise	6	2
remiss	6	2
renest	6	2
repass	6	2
repast	6	2
repose	6	2
rerise	6	2
rerose	6	2
resist	6	2
retest	6	2
retuse	6	2
revest	6	2
revise	6	2
rewash	6	2
ribose	6	2
rifest	6	2
rimose	6	2
ripest	6	2
ripost	6	2
robust	6	2
rudest	6	2
rugosa	6	3
rugose	6	2
sadism	6	2
sadist	6	2
safest	6	2
sagest	6	2
samosa	6	3
sanest	6	2
sayest	6	1
schism	6	1
schist	6	1
schuss	6	1
scouse	6	1
serest	6	2
serosa	6	3
setose	6	2
sexism	6	2
sexist	6	2
shiest	6	1
shiksa	6	2
shikse	6	1
shyest	6	1
sliest	6	1
slimsy	6	2
slyest	6	1
sneesh	6	1
sorest	6	2
sparse	6	1
speise	6	1
speiss	6	1
spense	6	1
splash	6	1
splosh	6	1
spouse	6	1
squash	6	1
squish	6	1
squush	6	1
strass	6	1
stress	6	1
surest	6	2
swoosh	6	1
tamest	6	2
tanist	6	2
teensy	6	2
theism	6	1
theist	6	1
thirst	6	1
thrash	6	1
thresh	6	1
thrush	6	1
thrust	6	1
thyrse	6	1
thyrsi	6	2
tonish	6	2
tootsy	6	2
torose	6	2
toyish	6	1
tressy	6	2
triose	6	1
truest	6	1
truism	6	1
tsetse	6	1
tsktsk	6	1
tubist	6	2
typist	6	2
unbusy	6	3
uncase	6	2
unease	6	2
uneasy	6	3
unhusk	6	2
unjust	6	2
unlash	6	2
unless	6	2
unmask	6	2
unmesh	6	2
unrest	6	2
unwise	6	2
unwish	6	2
upcast	6	2
upmost	6	2
uppish	6	2
uprise	6	2
uprose	6	2
uprush	6	2
uptoss	6	2
urease	6	2
utmost	6	2
vadose	6	2
valise	6	2
vamose	6	2
vanish	6	2
venose	6	2
verism	6	2
verist	6	2
vibist	6	2
vilest	6	2
volost	6	2
weensy	6	2
whilst	6	1
whimsy	6	2
whomso	6	2
whoosh	6	1
widest	6	2
widish	6	2
winish	6	2
wisest	6	2
woodsy	6	2
wrasse	6	1
wriest	6	1
wryest	6	1
xylose	6	2
yarest	6	2
zygose	6	2
zymase	6	2

FAQs

How do I play around a fixed S in the 5th slot?
Try mixing common consonant clusters (ST, TR, CH) in other positions while keeping S locked.

Why are uncommon words included?
We compile from a broad English list. Skim the top rows for more common picks.