- Average remaining
- 1.0
- Worst branch
- 1
- Information
- 2.58 bits
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Five-letter words ending in ESS
Our Wordle guess list has 9 five-letter words that end in ESS.
9 matching words
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This list has 9 Wordle guesses; 6 are possible answers. The calculator compared 14,786 Wordle guesses against those 6 answers. Possible-answer status helps narrow a puzzle, but does not predict which word Wordle will choose.
Past Wordle answers: GUESS (December 11, 2025); PRESS (September 19, 2024).
COURD does not fit this page's clues. CRESS keeps every clue shown here and leaves an average remainder of 1.67 (2 in its worst branch). Check any additional yellow-position clues in the full Solver.
Tight family:
_RESS
CRESS, DRESS, PRESS differ only in the first position. Trying them one at a time can use several turns; COURD tests the family more efficiently.
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Where these letters usually land
The ESS suffix fixes these letters in positions 3, 4 and 5; the figures below show whether extra copies appear elsewhere.
- E most often the 3rd letter (100% of these words).
- S most often the 4th letter (100% of these words), also 5th (100%).
Word notes
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BLESS
To make something holy by religious rite, sanctify.
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Not found among the past answers in this archive.
CHESS
A board game for two players, each beginning with sixteen chess pieces moving according to fixed rules across a chessboard with the objective to checkmate the opposing king.
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Not found among the past answers in this archive.
CRESS
A plant of various species, chiefly cruciferous. The leaves have a moderately pungent taste, and are used as a salad and antiscorbutic.
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Not found among the past answers in this archive.
DRESS
To put clothes (or, formerly, armour) on (oneself or someone, a doll, a mannequin, etc.); to clothe.
“He was dressed in the latest fashions.”
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Not found among the past answers in this archive.
GUESS
To reach a partly (or totally) unconfirmed conclusion; to engage in conjecture; to speculate.
“We can only guess at what was going through her mind.”
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Past Wordle answer: December 11, 2025.
PRESS
An instance of applying pressure; an instance of pressing.
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Past Wordle answer: September 19, 2024.
LOESS
Any sediment, dominated by silt, of eolian (wind-blown) origin.
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Not found among the past answers in this archive.
NIESS
Not found among the past answers in this archive.
TRESS
A braid, knot, or curl, of hair; a ringlet.
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Not found among the past answers in this archive.
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