5-letter words containing ES
Embark on an exploration of 5-letter words that contain the letter ES. This segment uncovers the diverse range of words that incorporate ES within this specific length, revealing the versatility and richness of language. Ideal for vocabulary enthusiasts and word-game aficionados.
| Word | Points | Definition | Sentence example |
|---|---|---|---|
| these | 8 | - | - |
| guess | 6 | an estimate based on little or no information | - |
| times | 7 | an arithmetic operation that is the inverse of division; the product of two numbers is computed | four times three equals twelve |
| comes | 9 | - | - |
| jesus | 12 | a teacher and prophet born in Bethlehem and active in Nazareth; his life and sermons form the basis for Christianity (circa 4 BC - AD 29) | - |
| lives | 8 | - | - |
| dress | 6 | cultivate, tend, and cut back the growth of | dress the plants in the garden |
| miles | 7 | - | - |
| rules | 5 | - | - |
| shoes | 8 | a particular situation | - |
| press | 7 | a dense crowd of people | - |
| fresh | 11 | original and of a kind not seen before | - |
| names | 7 | verbal abuse; a crude substitute for argument | sticks and stones may break my bones but names can never hurt me |
| james | 14 | (New Testament) disciple of Jesus; brother of John; author of the Epistle of James in the New Testament | - |
| guest | 6 | a visitor to whom hospitality is extended | - |
| lines | 5 | - | - |
| bless | 7 | render holy by means of religious rites | - |
| chest | 10 | the front of the trunk from the neck to the abdomen | - |
| bones | 7 | (used in the plural) a percussion instrument consisting of a pair of hollow pieces of wood or bone (usually held between the thumb and fingers) that are made to click together (as by Spanish dancers) in rhythm with the dance | - |
| notes | 5 | - | - |
| flesh | 11 | alternative names for the body of a human being | the spirit is willing but the flesh is weak |
| waves | 11 | - | - |
| jones | 12 | United States golfer (1902-1971) | - |
| jesse | 12 | - | - |
| flies | 8 | (theater) the space over the stage (out of view of the audience) used to store scenery (drop curtains) | - |
| sales | 5 | income (at invoice values) received for goods and services over some given period of time | - |
| wives | 11 | - | - |
| asses | 5 | - | - |
| dates | 6 | - | - |
| gates | 6 | United States computer entrepreneur whose software company made him the youngest multi-billionaire in the history of the United States (born in 1955) | - |
| mates | 7 | a pair of people who live together | - |
| fries | 8 | strips of potato fried in deep fat | - |
| tales | 5 | - | - |
| chess | 10 | weedy annual native to Europe but widely distributed as a weed especially in wheat | - |
| messy | 10 | dirty and disorderly | a child's messy eating habits |
| moses | 7 | United States painter of colorful and primitive rural scenes (1860-1961) | - |
| blues | 7 | a state of depression | he had a bad case of the blues |
| quest | 14 | the act of searching for something | a quest for diamonds |
| races | 7 | - | - |
| buses | 7 | - | - |
| wages | 9 | a recompense for worthy acts or retribution for wrongdoing | the wages of sin is death |
| dares | 6 | - | - |
| rates | 5 | a local tax on property (usually used in the plural) | - |
| essay | 8 | make an effort or attempt | The infant had essayed a few wobbly steps |
| elves | 8 | an acronym for emissions of light and very low frequency perturbations due to electromagnetic pulse sources; extremely bright extremely short (less than a msec) electrical flashes forming a huge ring (up to 400 km diameter) in the ionosphere | - |
| tubes | 7 | - | - |
| acres | 7 | extensive landed property (especially in the country) retained by the owner for his own use | - |
| tesla | 5 | United States electrical engineer and inventor (born in Croatia but of Serbian descent) who discovered the principles of alternating currents and developed the first alternating-current induction motor and the Tesla coil and several forms of oscillators (1856-1943) | - |
| bases | 7 | - | - |
| piles | 7 | venous swelling external or internal to the anal sphincter | - |
| gases | 6 | - | - |
| reset | 5 | adjust again after an initial failure | - |
| bates | 7 | - | - |
| wales | 8 | one of the four countries that make up the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland; during Roman times the region was known as Cambria | - |
| cures | 7 | - | - |
| geese | 6 | - | - |
| fumes | 10 | gases ejected from an engine as waste products | - |
| hades | 9 | (religion) the world of the dead | - |
| crest | 7 | lie at the top of | - |
| fates | 8 | - | - |
| foxes | 15 | - | - |
| vibes | 10 | a percussion instrument similar to a xylophone but having metal bars and rotating disks in the resonators that produce a vibrato sound | - |
| dukes | 10 | - | - |
| fives | 11 | a game resembling handball; played on a court with a front wall and two side walls | - |
| feces | 10 | solid excretory product evacuated from the bowels | - |
| pubes | 9 | the lower part of the abdomen just above the external genital organs | - |
| obese | 7 | excessively fat | - |
| pines | 7 | - | - |
| dives | 9 | - | - |
| hives | 11 | an itchy skin eruption characterized by weals with pale interiors and well-defined red margins; usually the result of an allergic response to insect bites or food or drugs | - |
| mores | 7 | (sociology) the conventions that embody the fundamental values of a group | - |
| resin | 5 | any of a class of solid or semisolid viscous substances obtained either as exudations from certain plants or prepared by polymerization of simple molecules | - |
| coles | 7 | - | - |
| bakes | 11 | - | - |
| pesky | 14 | causing irritation or annoyance | a pesky mosquito |
| vespa | 10 | type genus of the Vespidae: various hornets and yellow jackets | - |
| hoses | 8 | - | - |
| pesto | 7 | a sauce typically served with pasta; contains crushed basil leaves and garlic and pine nuts and Parmesan cheese in olive oil | - |
| testy | 8 | easily irritated or annoyed | - |
| limes | 7 | - | - |
| aides | 6 | (Greek mythology) the god of the underworld in ancient mythology; brother of Zeus and husband of Persephone | - |
| ester | 5 | organic compound formed by reaction between an acid and an alcohol with elimination of water | - |
| eaves | 8 | the overhang at the lower edge of a roof | - |
| pales | 7 | - | - |
| wares | 8 | - | - |
| beset | 7 | decorate or cover lavishly (as with gems) | - |
| heres | 8 | - | - |
| mopes | 9 | an informal expression for a mildly depressed state | have the mopes |
| doest | 6 | - | - |
| tress | 5 | a hairdo formed by braiding or twisting the hair | - |
| manes | 7 | a Persian prophet who founded Manichaeism (216-276) | - |
| cates | 7 | - | - |
| vesta | 8 | (Roman mythology) goddess of the hearth and its fire whose flame was tended by vestal virgins; counterpart of Greek Hestia | - |
| benes | 7 | - | - |
| wrest | 8 | obtain by seizing forcibly or violently, also metaphorically | wrest the knife from his hands |
| arles | 5 | money given by a buyer to a seller to bind a contract | - |
| paves | 10 | - | - |
| zesty | 17 | marked by spirited enjoyment | - |
| cress | 7 | any of various plants of the family Cruciferae with edible leaves that have a pungent taste | - |
| jakes | 16 | a small outbuilding with a bench having holes through which a user can defecate | - |
| aesir | 5 | (Norse mythology) the chief of gods living at Asgard | - |
| goest | 6 | - | - |
| dales | 6 | - | - |
| resit | 5 | - | - |
| blest | 7 | highly favored or fortunate (as e.g. by divine grace) | - |
| testa | 5 | protective outer layer of seeds of flowering plants | - |
| vives | 11 | - | - |
| fetes | 8 | - | - |
| lames | 7 | - | - |
| ceres | 7 | (Roman mythology) goddess of agriculture; counterpart of Greek Demeter | - |
| aedes | 6 | yellow-fever mosquitos | - |
| plies | 7 | - | - |
| festa | 8 | - | - |
| pedes | 8 | - | - |
| gules | 6 | - | - |
| mures | 7 | - | - |
| nones | 5 | the fifth of the seven canonical hours; about 3 p.m. | - |
| fides | 9 | - | - |
| escar | 7 | - | - |
| estro | 5 | - | - |
| estop | 7 | - | - |
| estoc | 7 | - | - |
| escot | 7 | - | - |
| esile | 5 | - | - |
| eskar | 9 | - | - |
| esker | 9 | (geology) a long winding ridge of post glacial gravel and other sediment; deposited by meltwater from glaciers or ice sheets | - |
| esnes | 5 | - | - |
| esses | 5 | - | - |
| epees | 7 | - | - |
| erses | 5 | - | - |
| ernes | 5 | - | - |
| fades | 9 | - | - |
| faces | 10 | - | - |
| fames | 10 | - | - |
| fakes | 12 | - | - |
| fanes | 8 | - | - |
| exies | 12 | - | - |
| ewest | 8 | - | - |
| eyres | 8 | - | - |
| egest | 6 | eliminate from the body | - |
| edges | 7 | - | - |
| dynes | 9 | - | - |
| eales | 5 | - | - |
| eases | 5 | - | - |
| eches | 10 | - | - |
| fixes | 15 | - | - |
| files | 8 | - | - |
| fires | 8 | - | - |
| fines | 8 | - | - |
| flues | 8 | - | - |
| flees | 8 | - | - |
| floes | 8 | - | - |
| fikes | 12 | - | - |
| fazes | 17 | - | - |
| faves | 11 | - | - |
| faxes | 15 | - | - |
| feese | 8 | - | - |
| fares | 8 | - | - |
| fices | 10 | - | - |
| fezes | 17 | - | - |
| fiest | 8 | - | - |
| fifes | 11 | - | - |
| femes | 10 | - | - |
| feres | 8 | - | - |
| festy | 11 | - | - |
| fests | 8 | - | - |
| fesse | 8 | (heraldry) an ordinary consisting of a broad horizontal band across a shield | - |
| gales | 6 | - | - |
| gages | 7 | - | - |
| games | 8 | - | - |
| fuses | 8 | - | - |
| gades | 7 | - | - |
| fyles | 11 | - | - |
| fykes | 15 | - | - |
| fuzes | 17 | - | - |
| fyces | 13 | - | - |
| gazes | 15 | - | - |
| geest | 6 | - | - |
| gapes | 8 | - | - |
| fomes | 10 | genus of bracket fungi forming corky or woody perennial shelflike sporophores often of large size; includes some that cause destructive heartrot in trees | - |
| fores | 8 | - | - |
| frees | 8 | - | - |
| froes | 8 | - | - |
| goles | 6 | - | - |
| glues | 6 | - | - |
| grese | 6 | - | - |
| grees | 6 | - | - |
| gores | 6 | - | - |
| goxes | 13 | - | - |
| gibes | 8 | - | - |
| ghees | 9 | - | - |
| ghest | 9 | - | - |
| genes | 6 | - | - |
| gesse | 6 | - | - |
| gesso | 6 | gypsum or plaster of Paris spread on a surface to make it suitable for painting or gilding (or a surface so prepared) | - |
| geste | 6 | - | - |
| gests | 6 | - | - |
| geres | 6 | - | - |
| glees | 6 | - | - |
| gites | 6 | - | - |
| gives | 9 | - | - |
| hares | 8 | - | - |
| hates | 8 | - | - |
| hakes | 12 | - | - |
| hales | 8 | - | - |
| hajes | 15 | - | - |
| hames | 10 | - | - |
| hebes | 10 | - | - |
| hemes | 10 | - | - |
| heles | 8 | - | - |
| haves | 11 | - | - |
| hazes | 17 | - | - |
| grues | 6 | - | - |
| gudes | 7 | - | - |
| gyres | 9 | - | - |
| gytes | 9 | - | - |
| gyves | 12 | - | - |
| gybes | 11 | - | - |
| hoxes | 15 | - | - |
| hules | 8 | - | - |
| hoves | 11 | - | - |
| howes | 11 | - | - |
| idees | 6 | - | - |
| idles | 6 | - | - |
| iches | 10 | - | - |
| hykes | 15 | - | - |
| hypes | 13 | - | - |
| hyles | 11 | - | - |
| hides | 9 | - | - |
| hikes | 12 | - | - |
| hires | 8 | - | - |
| hexes | 15 | - | - |
| hesps | 10 | - | - |
| hests | 8 | - | - |
| hetes | 8 | - | - |
| hones | 8 | - | - |
| homes | 10 | - | - |
| hopes | 10 | - | - |
| holes | 8 | - | - |
| hokes | 12 | - | - |
| jives | 15 | - | - |
| jobes | 14 | - | - |
| joles | 12 | - | - |
| jokes | 16 | - | - |
| jefes | 15 | - | - |
| jests | 12 | - | - |
| jetes | 12 | - | - |
| jibes | 14 | - | - |
| jupes | 14 | - | - |
| kades | 10 | - | - |
| juves | 15 | - | - |
| jutes | 12 | - | - |
| kales | 9 | - | - |
| kames | 11 | - | - |
| kaies | 9 | - | - |
| jubes | 14 | - | - |
| jukes | 16 | - | - |
| janes | 12 | - | - |
| japes | 14 | - | - |
| isles | 5 | - | - |
| ishes | 8 | - | - |
| ivies | 8 | - | - |
| jades | 13 | - | - |
| kites | 9 | - | - |
| knees | 9 | - | - |
| kyles | 12 | - | - |
| laces | 7 | - | - |
| kypes | 14 | - | - |
| kytes | 12 | - | - |
| kores | 9 | - | - |
| koses | 9 | - | - |
| kanes | 9 | - | - |
| kibes | 11 | - | - |
| kikes | 13 | - | - |
| kipes | 11 | - | - |
| kines | 9 | - | - |
| kesar | 9 | - | - |
| kests | 9 | - | - |
| kexes | 16 | - | - |
| lezes | 14 | - | - |
| likes | 9 | - | - |
| lifes | 8 | - | - |
| lenes | 5 | - | - |
| lemes | 7 | - | - |
| leres | 5 | - | - |
| lesbo | 7 | - | - |
| leses | 5 | - | - |
| lests | 5 | - | - |
| lexes | 12 | - | - |
| lites | 5 | - | - |
| lares | 5 | - | - |
| lanes | 5 | - | - |
| lases | 5 | - | - |
| lades | 6 | - | - |
| lakes | 9 | - | - |
| leges | 6 | - | - |
| leese | 5 | - | - |
| laves | 8 | - | - |
| lazes | 14 | - | - |
| laxes | 12 | - | - |
| mabes | 9 | - | - |
| maces | 9 | - | - |
| mages | 8 | - | - |
| lutes | 5 | - | - |
| luxes | 12 | - | - |
| lytes | 8 | - | - |
| lyses | 8 | - | - |
| lymes | 10 | - | - |
| lynes | 8 | - | - |
| lyres | 8 | - | - |
| mares | 7 | - | - |
| males | 7 | - | - |
| makes | 11 | - | - |
| lopes | 7 | - | - |
| loses | 5 | - | - |
| lotes | 5 | - | - |
| lores | 5 | - | - |
| lodes | 6 | - | - |
| loess | 5 | a fine-grained unstratified accumulation of clay and silt deposited by the wind | - |
| loges | 6 | - | - |
| lobes | 7 | - | - |
| lomes | 7 | - | - |
| lokes | 9 | - | - |
| luces | 7 | - | - |
| luges | 6 | - | - |
| ludes | 6 | - | - |
| lures | 5 | - | - |
| lunes | 5 | - | - |
| loves | 8 | - | - |
| loxes | 12 | - | - |
| lowes | 8 | - | - |
| lubes | 7 | - | - |
| mines | 7 | - | - |
| mimes | 9 | - | - |
| mises | 7 | - | - |
| mires | 7 | - | - |
| mikes | 11 | - | - |
| moles | 7 | - | - |
| mokes | 11 | - | - |
| momes | 9 | - | - |
| mixes | 14 | - | - |
| mites | 7 | - | - |
| modes | 8 | - | - |
| mobes | 9 | - | - |
| mazes | 16 | - | - |
| maxes | 14 | - | - |
| mases | 7 | - | - |
| mesic | 9 | of or pertaining to a meson | the radii of the mesic orbits |
| mesne | 7 | - | - |
| meson | 7 | an elementary particle responsible for the forces in the atomic nucleus; a hadron with a baryon number of 0 | - |
| mesto | 7 | - | - |
| meshy | 13 | - | - |
| meses | 7 | - | - |
| mesal | 7 | - | - |
| mesas | 7 | - | - |
| mesel | 7 | - | - |
| metes | 7 | - | - |
| mezes | 16 | - | - |
| meves | 10 | - | - |
| memes | 9 | - | - |
| menes | 7 | - | - |
| meres | 7 | - | - |
| nabes | 7 | - | - |
| mutes | 7 | - | - |
| muxes | 14 | - | - |
| mzees | 16 | - | - |
| neese | 5 | - | - |
| nests | 5 | - | - |
| nenes | 5 | - | - |
| netes | 5 | - | - |
| nares | 5 | - | - |
| napes | 7 | - | - |
| nazes | 14 | - | - |
| naves | 8 | - | - |
| nates | 5 | the fleshy part of the human body that you sit on | - |
| motes | 7 | - | - |
| moues | 7 | - | - |
| moves | 10 | - | - |
| muses | 7 | - | - |
| mules | 7 | - | - |
| mozes | 16 | - | - |
| desex | 13 | make infertile | - |
| deshi | 9 | - | - |
| desks | 10 | - | - |
| desse | 6 | - | - |
| deres | 6 | - | - |
| dexes | 13 | - | - |
| deles | 6 | - | - |
| dekes | 10 | - | - |
| demes | 8 | - | - |
| denes | 6 | - | - |
| dites | 6 | - | - |
| dices | 8 | - | - |
| dimes | 8 | - | - |
| dikes | 10 | - | - |
| dines | 6 | - | - |
| dames | 8 | - | - |
| cymes | 12 | - | - |
| cytes | 10 | - | - |
| daces | 8 | - | - |
| debes | 8 | - | - |
| dazes | 15 | - | - |
| duces | 8 | - | - |
| drees | 6 | - | - |
| drest | 6 | - | - |
| dries | 6 | - | - |
| dures | 6 | - | - |
| duxes | 13 | - | - |
| dykes | 13 | - | - |
| dudes | 7 | - | - |
| dules | 6 | - | - |
| dunes | 6 | - | - |
| dupes | 8 | - | - |
| domes | 8 | - | - |
| doles | 6 | - | - |
| doges | 7 | - | - |
| doves | 9 | - | - |
| dozes | 15 | - | - |
| dopes | 8 | - | - |
| doses | 6 | - | - |
| dotes | 6 | - | - |
| boxes | 14 | - | - |
| braes | 7 | - | - |
| bowes | 10 | - | - |
| brees | 7 | - | - |
| bries | 7 | - | - |
| bodes | 8 | - | - |
| blees | 7 | - | - |
| bores | 7 | - | - |
| bokes | 11 | - | - |
| boles | 7 | - | - |
| capes | 9 | - | - |
| cares | 7 | - | - |
| cakes | 11 | - | - |
| canes | 7 | - | - |
| cames | 9 | - | - |
| cedes | 8 | - | - |
| cesse | 7 | - | - |
| cesta | 7 | - | - |
| cesti | 7 | - | - |
| cepes | 9 | - | - |
| cetes | 7 | - | - |
| cases | 7 | - | - |
| caves | 10 | - | - |
| bukes | 11 | - | - |
| byres | 10 | - | - |
| bytes | 10 | - | - |
| cafes | 10 | - | - |
| cages | 8 | - | - |
| caese | 7 | - | - |
| cades | 8 | - | - |
| bykes | 14 | - | - |
| bydes | 11 | - | - |
| butes | 7 | - | - |
| clies | 7 | - | - |
| claes | 7 | - | - |
| cites | 7 | - | - |
| cives | 10 | - | - |
| codes | 8 | - | - |
| cokes | 11 | - | - |
| clues | 7 | - | - |
| cides | 8 | - | - |
| cires | 7 | - | - |
| cines | 7 | - | - |
| crues | 7 | - | - |
| cries | 7 | - | - |
| crees | 7 | - | - |
| cutes | 7 | - | - |
| cubes | 9 | - | - |
| cukes | 11 | - | - |
| copes | 9 | - | - |
| cones | 7 | - | - |
| coves | 10 | - | - |
| coxes | 14 | - | - |
| cozes | 16 | - | - |
| cores | 7 | - | - |
| coses | 7 | - | - |
| cotes | 7 | - | - |
| axles | 12 | - | - |
| ayres | 8 | - | - |
| aures | 5 | - | - |
| aunes | 5 | - | - |
| bales | 7 | - | - |
| banes | 7 | - | - |
| babes | 9 | - | - |
| apses | 7 | - | - |
| apres | 7 | - | - |
| arses | 5 | - | - |
| ashes | 8 | - | - |
| bices | 9 | - | - |
| bides | 8 | - | - |
| bikes | 11 | - | - |
| besat | 7 | - | - |
| besaw | 10 | - | - |
| besee | 7 | - | - |
| beses | 7 | - | - |
| besit | 7 | - | - |
| beres | 7 | - | - |
| besom | 9 | a broom made of twigs tied together on a long handle | - |
| besot | 7 | make dull or stupid or muddle with drunkenness or infatuation | - |
