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5-letter words ending in LUS
There are 9 5-letter words ending in LUS in the standard word-game list. The most common are bolus, hilus, pilus, solus, talus. 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 |
|---|---|---|
| bolus | a small round soft mass (as of chewed food) | 7 |
| hilus | (anatomy) a depression or fissure where vessels or nerves or ducts enter a bodily organ | 8 |
| pilus | any of the cylindrical filaments characteristically growing from the epidermis of a mammal | 7 |
| solus | Alone, unaccompanied (as a stage direction) | 5 |
| talus | a sloping mass of loose rocks at the base of a cliff | 5 |