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5-letter words ending in ESS
There are 8 5-letter words ending in ESS in the standard word-game list. The most common are guess, dress, press, bless, chess, cress. Every five-letter word here is a valid Wordle guess, and the commonest ones are the likeliest answers.
Most common, with meanings
| Word | Meaning | Points |
|---|---|---|
| guess | a message expressing an opinion based on incomplete evidence | 6 |
| dress | suitable for formal occasions | 6 |
| press | the state of demanding notice or attention | 7 |
| bless | give a benediction to | 7 |
| chess | weedy annual native to Europe but widely distributed as a weed especially in wheat | 10 |
| cress | any of various plants of the family Cruciferae with edible leaves that have a pungent taste | 7 |
| loess | a fine-grained unstratified accumulation of clay and silt deposited by the wind | 5 |
| tress | a hairdo formed by braiding or twisting the hair | 5 |