Daily word games to challenge your mind
A curated list of 9-letter words tailored to this exact pattern. Endings like ORE often mark word families—helpful to confirm tense or morphology. For example: ascospore, bookstore, carnivore.
| Word | Definition | Length | Syllables |
|---|---|---|---|
| ascospore | 9 | 3 | |
| bookstore | 9 | 2 | |
| carnivore | 9 | 3 | |
| commodore | 9 | 3 | |
| drugstore | 9 | 2 | |
| dulcimore | 9 | 3 | |
| endospore | 9 | 3 | |
| extempore | 9 | 3 | |
| foreshore | 9 | 3 | |
| foreswore | 9 | 3 | |
| fourscore | 9 | 2 | |
| frugivore | 9 | 3 | |
| gonophore | 9 | 3 | |
| gynophore | 9 | 3 | |
| hackamore | 9 | 3 | |
| heartsore | 9 | 2 | |
| hellebore | 9 | 3 | |
| herbivore | 9 | 3 | |
| ionophore | 9 | 3 | |
| lakeshore | 9 | 3 | |
| madrepore | 9 | 3 | |
| manticore | 9 | 3 | |
| megaspore | 9 | 3 | |
| micropore | 9 | 3 | |
| nearshore | 9 | 2 | |
| nevermore | 9 | 3 | |
| phosphore | 9 | 2 | |
| reexplore | 9 | 2 | |
| semaphore | 9 | 3 | |
| sophomore | 9 | 3 | |
| stevedore | 9 | 3 | |
| therefore | 9 | 3 | |
| wherefore | 9 | 3 | |
| zygospore | 9 | 3 |
What’s typical about ORE-ending words?
ORE often marks suffix families; think about derivatives when guessing.
Do you include UK/US spellings?
Where they exist, both may appear.