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8-letter words with S as the 6th letter

A curated list of 8-letter words tailored to this exact pattern. Use this when S is fixed in the 6th slot; rotate high-frequency consonants elsewhere to prune fast. For example: abacuses, abatises, abbesses.

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1057 words

Word	Length	Syllables
abacuses	8	4
abatises	8	4
abbesses	8	3
abomasal	8	4
abomasum	8	4
abomasus	8	4
abscised	8	3
abscises	8	3
abscisin	8	3
abscissa	8	3
accessed	8	3
accesses	8	3
accursed	8	3
acidoses	8	4
acidosis	8	4
acquests	8	2
actressy	8	3
adenoses	8	4
adenosis	8	4
adiposes	8	4
adiposis	8	4
adonises	8	4
advowson	8	3
agaroses	8	4
ageneses	8	4
agenesia	8	4
agenesis	8	4
agonised	8	4
agonises	8	4
agonists	8	3
airbuses	8	3
airposts	8	2
alfresco	8	3
alphosis	8	3
altoists	8	2
ambrosia	8	3
amidases	8	4
amitoses	8	4
amitosis	8	4
amorists	8	3
amylases	8	4
amyloses	8	4
anabases	8	4
anabasis	8	4
analysed	8	4
analyser	8	4
analyses	8	4
analysis	8	4
analysts	8	3
anapests	8	3
anatases	8	4
anchusas	8	3
anchusin	8	3
anemoses	8	4
anemosis	8	4
animisms	8	3
animists	8	3
animuses	8	4
anoopsia	8	3
antheses	8	3
anthesis	8	3
anureses	8	4
anuresis	8	4
apoapsis	8	3
apodoses	8	4
apodosis	8	4
appeased	8	3
appeaser	8	3
appeases	8	3
apprised	8	3
appriser	8	3
apprises	8	3
appulses	8	3
apyrases	8	4
arabesks	8	3
armrests	8	2
aspersed	8	3
asperser	8	3
asperses	8	3
aspersor	8	3
assassin	8	3
assessed	8	3
assesses	8	3
assessor	8	3
atamasco	8	4
atavisms	8	3
atavists	8	3
atheisms	8	2
atheists	8	2
atomised	8	4
atomiser	8	4
atomises	8	4
atomisms	8	3
atomists	8	3
autopsic	8	3
avgasses	8	3
azotised	8	4
azotises	8	4
azygoses	8	4
baalisms	8	2
babassus	8	3
badassed	8	3
badasses	8	3
bagasses	8	3
ballasts	8	2
ballista	8	3
banausic	8	3
baptised	8	3
baptises	8	3
baptisia	8	3
baptisms	8	2
baptists	8	2
barbasco	8	3
bartisan	8	3
bassists	8	2
bathoses	8	3
beclasps	8	2
becrusts	8	2
becursed	8	3
becurses	8	3
bedposts	8	2
bekissed	8	3
bekisses	8	3
bequests	8	2
bethesda	8	3
biblists	8	2
bicepses	8	3
bimensal	8	3
bioassay	8	2
biogases	8	3
biolyses	8	3
biolysis	8	3
biphasic	8	3
bogyisms	8	2
bombasts	8	2
bombesin	8	3
bossisms	8	2
brewises	8	3
britzska	8	2
bromisms	8	2
brutisms	8	2
bruxisms	8	2
bundists	8	2
burlesks	8	2
bypassed	8	3
bypasses	8	3
byssuses	8	3
cabooses	8	3
cabresta	8	3
cabresto	8	3
cactuses	8	3
caddises	8	3
calloses	8	3
callused	8	3
calluses	8	3
calypsos	8	3
camasses	8	3
cambisms	8	2
cambists	8	2
campused	8	3
campuses	8	3
canvased	8	3
canvaser	8	3
canvases	8	3
capiases	8	3
carassow	8	3
carcases	8	3
caressed	8	3
caresser	8	3
caresses	8	3
carousal	8	3
caroused	8	3
carousel	8	3
carouser	8	3
carouses	8	3
caseases	8	3
caseoses	8	3
cassises	8	3
casuists	8	2
caucused	8	3
caucuses	8	3
cellists	8	2
censused	8	3
censuses	8	3
centeses	8	3
centesis	8	3
cercises	8	3
cereuses	8	3
cestuses	8	3
chainsaw	8	2
chamises	8	3
chamisos	8	3
charases	8	3
charisma	8	3
charisms	8	2
chausses	8	2
chemises	8	3
chemisms	8	2
chemists	8	2
chiauses	8	2
chintses	8	2
chitosan	8	3
chloasma	8	2
chorused	8	3
choruses	8	3
chubasco	8	3
chutists	8	2
chymists	8	2
chymosin	8	3
cineaste	8	2
cineasts	8	2
circuses	8	3
cistuses	8	3
citruses	8	3
cladists	8	2
cleansed	8	2
cleanser	8	2
cleanses	8	2
clevises	8	3
clonisms	8	2
clonuses	8	3
coalesce	8	2
coexists	8	2
cognised	8	3
cognises	8	3
coituses	8	3
colessee	8	2
colessor	8	3
coleuses	8	3
colossal	8	3
colossus	8	3
combusts	8	2
composed	8	3
composer	8	3
composes	8	3
composts	8	2
conciser	8	3
confused	8	3
confuses	8	3
congests	8	2
conioses	8	3
coniosis	8	3
consists	8	2
contests	8	2
contused	8	3
contuses	8	3
copyists	8	2
cornuses	8	3
cortisol	8	3
cosmisms	8	2
cosmists	8	2
cosmoses	8	3
coulises	8	3
coulisse	8	2
crevasse	8	2
crocuses	8	3
cullises	8	3
cultisms	8	2
cultists	8	2
cultuses	8	3
curassow	8	3
cuscuses	8	3
cutlases	8	3
cyanosed	8	3
cyanoses	8	3
cyanosis	8	3
cyclases	8	3
cyclists	8	2
cycloses	8	3
cyclosis	8	3
cypreses	8	3
cypruses	8	3
czarisms	8	2
czarists	8	2
dadaisms	8	2
dadaists	8	2
deceased	8	3
deceases	8	3
declasse	8	2
defensed	8	3
defenses	8	3
defrosts	8	2
degassed	8	3
degasser	8	3
degasses	8	3
deixises	8	3
deloused	8	3
delouser	8	3
delouses	8	3
demersal	8	3
dentists	8	2
dermises	8	3
derrises	8	3
despised	8	3
despiser	8	3
despises	8	3
detassel	8	3
diabases	8	3
diabasic	8	3
dialists	8	2
dialysed	8	3
dialyser	8	3
dialyses	8	3
dialysis	8	3
diapason	8	3
diarists	8	2
dichasia	8	3
diereses	8	3
dieresis	8	3
diffused	8	3
diffuser	8	3
diffuses	8	3
diffusor	8	3
dinguses	8	3
diocesan	8	3
dioceses	8	3
diphasic	8	3
diploses	8	3
diplosis	8	3
disbosom	8	3
discased	8	3
discases	8	3
discuses	8	3
diseased	8	3
diseases	8	3
diseuses	8	3
disgusts	8	2
dismasts	8	2
disposal	8	3
disposed	8	3
disposer	8	3
disposes	8	3
distaste	8	2
diureses	8	3
diuresis	8	3
dodoisms	8	2
doofuses	8	3
dualisms	8	2
dualists	8	2
duelists	8	2
duresses	8	3
durmasts	8	2
earnests	8	2
earthset	8	2
ebonised	8	4
ebonises	8	4
ecclesia	8	3
ecesises	8	4
echoisms	8	2
eclipsed	8	3
eclipses	8	3
eclipsis	8	3
egotisms	8	3
egotists	8	3
egressed	8	3
egresses	8	3
elegised	8	4
elegises	8	4
elegists	8	3
elitisms	8	3
elitists	8	3
ellipses	8	3
ellipsis	8	3
embossed	8	3
embosser	8	3
embosses	8	3
emphases	8	3
emphasis	8	3
empoison	8	3
emprises	8	3
enchased	8	3
enchaser	8	3
enchases	8	3
enclasps	8	2
enclosed	8	3
encloser	8	3
encloses	8	3
encrusts	8	2
endorsed	8	3
endorsee	8	2
endorser	8	3
endorses	8	3
endorsor	8	3
enolases	8	4
enosises	8	4
enthused	8	3
enthuses	8	3
entresol	8	3
entrusts	8	2
entwists	8	2
enuresis	8	4
epeeists	8	2
epimysia	8	4
epinasty	8	4
epitases	8	4
epitasis	8	4
erotisms	8	3
espousal	8	3
espoused	8	3
espouser	8	3
espouses	8	3
espresso	8	3
estheses	8	3
esthesia	8	3
esthesis	8	3
estruses	8	3
etatisms	8	3
ethnoses	8	3
euclases	8	3
eupepsia	8	3
evanesce	8	3
excessed	8	3
excesses	8	3
excursus	8	3
exegeses	8	4
exegesis	8	4
exhausts	8	2
exoduses	8	4
exotisms	8	3
expanses	8	3
expensed	8	3
expenses	8	3
expresso	8	3
expulsed	8	3
expulses	8	3
extensor	8	3
faddisms	8	2
faddists	8	2
famously	8	3
fantasia	8	3
fantasie	8	2
fantasms	8	2
fantasts	8	2
farnesol	8	3
fascisms	8	2
fascists	8	2
fauvisms	8	2
fauvists	8	2
feudists	8	2
fibroses	8	3
fibrosis	8	3
fideisms	8	2
fideists	8	2
finessed	8	3
finesses	8	3
flatuses	8	3
florists	8	2
flutists	8	2
flypasts	8	2
focussed	8	3
focusses	8	3
foetuses	8	3
fogyisms	8	2
forensic	8	3
fracases	8	3
fuguists	8	2
funguses	8	3
gabfests	8	2
gallused	8	3
galluses	8	3
gambeson	8	3
gambusia	8	3
garrison	8	3
geniuses	8	3
genoises	8	3
geodesic	8	3
gjetosts	8	2
glacises	8	3
glimpsed	8	2
glimpser	8	2
glimpses	8	2
glucoses	8	3
glucosic	8	3
glycosyl	8	3
gneisses	8	2
gneissic	8	2
gnomists	8	2
graduses	8	3
grandsir	8	2
grandson	8	2
guanases	8	3
guernsey	8	2
gummoses	8	3
gummosis	8	3
gymnasia	8	3
gymnasts	8	2
haggises	8	3
haploses	8	3
haplosis	8	3
harassed	8	3
harasser	8	3
harasses	8	3
harpists	8	2
harvests	8	2
heavyset	8	3
heliasts	8	2
heptoses	8	3
heroisms	8	2
hiatuses	8	3
hidroses	8	3
hidrosis	8	3
hoboisms	8	2
hocussed	8	3
hocusses	8	3
hognoses	8	3
hommoses	8	3
hornists	8	2
housesat	8	3
housesit	8	3
hubrises	8	3
hummuses	8	3
hybrises	8	3
hydrases	8	3
hydroski	8	3
hydrosol	8	3
hygeists	8	2
hymnists	8	2
hypnoses	8	3
hypnosis	8	3
iambuses	8	3
idlesses	8	3
idolised	8	4
idoliser	8	4
idolises	8	4
idolisms	8	3
idylists	8	3
imagisms	8	3
imagists	8	3
immenser	8	3
immersed	8	3
immerses	8	3
impasses	8	3
impresas	8	3
impreses	8	3
imprests	8	2
imprison	8	3
impulsed	8	3
impulses	8	3
inbursts	8	2
incensed	8	3
incenses	8	3
inclasps	8	2
inclosed	8	3
incloser	8	3
incloses	8	3
incrusts	8	2
indorsed	8	3
indorsee	8	2
indorser	8	3
indorses	8	3
indorsor	8	3
inquests	8	2
intarsia	8	3
intenser	8	3
intersex	8	3
intrusts	8	2
intwists	8	2
inulases	8	4
inverses	8	3
iodopsin	8	3
iritises	8	4
ironists	8	3
itemised	8	4
itemises	8	4
jalousie	8	2
jettison	8	3
joyously	8	2
judoists	8	2
jujitsus	8	3
jujuisms	8	2
jujuists	8	2
jujutsus	8	3
karosses	8	3
kavasses	8	3
kazatski	8	3
kazatsky	8	3
kermesse	8	2
kermises	8	3
kolbasis	8	3
kolbassi	8	3
kolinski	8	3
kolinsky	8	3
koumises	8	3
koumyses	8	3
kumisses	8	3
kurtosis	8	3
kyanised	8	3
kyanises	8	3
kyphoses	8	3
kyphosis	8	3
labrusca	8	3
lacrosse	8	2
lactases	8	3
lactoses	8	3
laicised	8	3
laicises	8	3
laicisms	8	2
lambaste	8	2
lambasts	8	2
lampases	8	3
largesse	8	2
leftisms	8	2
leftists	8	2
lemnisci	8	3
lentisks	8	2
leukoses	8	3
leukosis	8	3
lewisson	8	3
licensed	8	3
licensee	8	2
licenser	8	3
licenses	8	3
licensor	8	3
limbuses	8	3
lionised	8	3
lioniser	8	3
lionises	8	3
lithosol	8	3
litmuses	8	3
locoisms	8	2
lordoses	8	3
lordosis	8	3
machismo	8	3
madrases	8	3
magnesia	8	3
magnesic	8	3
malaises	8	3
malposed	8	3
maltases	8	3
maltoses	8	3
malvasia	8	3
mannoses	8	3
mantises	8	3
mantissa	8	3
marmoset	8	3
meatuses	8	3
megasses	8	3
mestesos	8	3
metisses	8	3
metrists	8	2
midmosts	8	2
misassay	8	3
miscasts	8	2
miseases	8	3
missises	8	3
missuses	8	3
moccasin	8	3
molasses	8	3
molluscs	8	2
mollusks	8	2
morasses	8	3
morrises	8	3
mortised	8	3
mortiser	8	3
mortises	8	3
mostests	8	2
narcisms	8	2
narcissi	8	3
narcists	8	2
narcoses	8	3
narcosis	8	3
nebbishy	8	3
necrosed	8	3
necroses	8	3
necrosis	8	3
neurosal	8	3
neuroses	8	3
neurosis	8	3
nigrosin	8	3
nimbused	8	3
nimbuses	8	3
nitrosyl	8	3
noblesse	8	2
noesises	8	3
nonbasic	8	3
nonissue	8	2
nonmusic	8	3
nonpasts	8	2
nutcases	8	3
obelised	8	4
obelises	8	4
obelisks	8	3
obelisms	8	3
obsessed	8	3
obsesses	8	3
obsessor	8	3
obverses	8	3
occlusal	8	3
oculists	8	3
odalisks	8	3
odiously	8	3
offcasts	8	2
offenses	8	3
ogreisms	8	2
ogresses	8	3
ologists	8	3
olorosos	8	4
onanisms	8	3
onanists	8	3
opalesce	8	3
oquassas	8	3
oralisms	8	3
oralists	8	3
orchises	8	3
orinasal	8	4
orthoses	8	3
orthosis	8	3
osteoses	8	3
osteosis	8	3
otocysts	8	3
outcaste	8	2
outcasts	8	2
outfasts	8	2
outlasts	8	2
outposts	8	2
outtasks	8	2
outwaste	8	2
overused	8	4
overuses	8	4
oviposit	8	4
oxalises	8	4
oxidases	8	4
oxidasic	8	4
oxidised	8	4
oxidiser	8	4
oxidises	8	4
ozonised	8	4
ozonises	8	4
pachisis	8	3
paduasoy	8	3
paleosol	8	3
palmists	8	2
papooses	8	3
partisan	8	3
parvises	8	3
passuses	8	3
pastises	8	3
pathoses	8	3
pectases	8	3
pelisses	8	3
peltasts	8	2
pelvises	8	3
pentosan	8	3
pentoses	8	3
peonisms	8	2
peploses	8	3
pepluses	8	3
perfused	8	3
perfuses	8	3
persists	8	2
petrosal	8	3
pharisee	8	2
pharoses	8	3
phimoses	8	3
phimosis	8	3
photoset	8	3
phthises	8	2
phthisic	8	2
phthisis	8	2
phyleses	8	3
phylesis	8	3
pianisms	8	2
pianists	8	2
pietisms	8	2
pietists	8	2
planosol	8	3
plenisms	8	2
plenists	8	2
plexuses	8	3
podcasts	8	2
poetised	8	3
poetiser	8	3
poetises	8	3
pollists	8	2
poloists	8	2
porously	8	3
potassic	8	3
praxises	8	3
prebasal	8	3
precasts	8	2
precised	8	3
preciser	8	3
precises	8	3
predusks	8	2
premised	8	3
premises	8	3
prepaste	8	2
pretaste	8	2
pretests	8	2
prevised	8	3
previses	8	3
previsor	8	3
primuses	8	3
promised	8	3
promisee	8	2
promiser	8	3
promises	8	3
promisor	8	3
proposal	8	3
proposed	8	3
proposer	8	3
proposes	8	3
protases	8	3
protasis	8	3
protests	8	2
protists	8	2
provisos	8	3
provosts	8	2
prunuses	8	3
psiloses	8	3
psilosis	8	3
purposed	8	3
purposes	8	3
pycnoses	8	3
pycnosis	8	3
pyknoses	8	3
pyknosis	8	3
querists	8	2
quickset	8	2
rachises	8	3
radiuses	8	3
radwaste	8	2
realised	8	3
realiser	8	3
realises	8	3
realisms	8	2
realists	8	2
recessed	8	3
recesses	8	3
rechosen	8	3
reclasps	8	2
recluses	8	3
rehoused	8	3
rehouses	8	3
relapsed	8	3
relapser	8	3
relapses	8	3
released	8	3
releaser	8	3
releases	8	3
remissly	8	3
remorses	8	3
rennases	8	3
repassed	8	3
repasses	8	3
repousse	8	2
reprisal	8	3
reprised	8	3
reprises	8	3
repulsed	8	3
repulser	8	3
repulses	8	3
repursue	8	2
requests	8	2
reraised	8	3
reraises	8	3
reseason	8	3
retwists	8	2
reversal	8	3
reversed	8	3
reverser	8	3
reverses	8	3
reversos	8	3
revuists	8	2
revulsed	8	3
rhesuses	8	3
rictuses	8	3
rubasses	8	3
rubbishy	8	3
ruckuses	8	3
rumpuses	8	3
sacrists	8	2
sacristy	8	3
sarcasms	8	2
sargasso	8	3
sawdusts	8	2
schussed	8	2
schusser	8	2
schusses	8	2
semioses	8	3
semiosis	8	3
shamosim	8	3
shamuses	8	3
shiatsus	8	2
shicksas	8	2
siameses	8	3
sightsaw	8	2
sightsee	8	1
slumisms	8	2
soloists	8	2
somerset	8	3
soothsay	8	2
sophisms	8	2
sophists	8	2
sorboses	8	3
soubises	8	3
speisses	8	2
squooshy	8	2
statisms	8	2
statists	8	2
statuses	8	3
steapsin	8	2
stenosed	8	3
stenoses	8	3
stenosis	8	3
sternson	8	2
stokesia	8	3
strasses	8	2
stressed	8	2
stresses	8	2
stressor	8	2
streusel	8	2
stylised	8	3
styliser	8	3
stylises	8	3
stylists	8	2
styluses	8	3
subbases	8	3
subbasin	8	3
subcaste	8	2
subnasal	8	3
subsists	8	2
subtasks	8	2
subtests	8	2
sucrases	8	3
sucroses	8	3
suffused	8	3
suffuses	8	3
suggests	8	2
sunrises	8	3
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supposed	8	3
supposer	8	3
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sweetsop	8	2
symposia	8	3
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syndesis	8	3
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synopsis	8	3
tabbises	8	3
tachisme	8	2
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tachists	8	2
taleysim	8	3
tallisim	8	3
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tempests	8	2
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teniasis	8	3
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tennists	8	2
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thickset	8	2
thymosin	8	3
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tourisms	8	2
tourists	8	2
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traipses	8	2
trapesed	8	3
trapeses	8	3
travesty	8	3
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triposes	8	3
tropisms	8	2
tsarisms	8	2
tsarists	8	2
tubaists	8	2
tussises	8	3
typhuses	8	3
tzarisms	8	2
tzarists	8	2
unabused	8	4
unamused	8	4
unbiased	8	3
uncaused	8	3
unchaste	8	2
unchosen	8	3
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unclosed	8	3
uncloses	8	3
uncursed	8	3
undersea	8	3
underset	8	3
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unhorsed	8	3
unhorses	8	3
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unkissed	8	3
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unloosed	8	3
unloosen	8	3
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unperson	8	3
unpoised	8	3
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unreason	8	3
unrinsed	8	3
unsonsie	8	2
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upraiser	8	3
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uraeuses	8	3
uranisms	8	3
uteruses	8	4
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valguses	8	3
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varnishy	8	3
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vibrissa	8	3
vinasses	8	3
vinously	8	3
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walruses	8	3
wammuses	8	3
wampuses	8	3
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whoreson	8	3
whosises	8	3
zoonoses	8	3
zoonosis	8	3

FAQs

How do I play around a fixed S in the 6th 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.