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5-letter words ending in RSE
There are 17 5-letter words ending in RSE in the standard word-game list. The most common are worse, horse, nurse, curse, purse, verse. 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 |
|---|---|---|
| worse | (comparative of ‘bad’) inferior to another in quality or condition or desirability | 8 |
| horse | solid-hoofed herbivorous quadruped domesticated since prehistoric times | 8 |
| nurse | one skilled in caring for young children or the sick (usually under the supervision of a physician) | 5 |
| curse | profane or obscene expression usually of surprise or anger | 7 |
| purse | a container used for carrying money and small personal items or accessories (especially by women) | 7 |
| verse | literature in metrical form | 8 |
| morse | a telegraph code in which letters and numbers are represented by strings of dots and dashes (short and long… | 7 |
| birse | Bristle | 7 |
| burse | A purse. | 7 |
| carse | Low, fertile land; a river valley. | 7 |
| corse | A (living) body. | 7 |
| gorse | very spiny and dense evergreen shrub with fragrant golden-yellow flowers; common throughout western Europe | 6 |
| parse | analyze syntactically by assigning a constituent structure to (a sentence) | 7 |
| perse | A dark blue-gray colour. | 7 |
| terse | brief and to the point; effectively cut short | 5 |
| torse | A twist of cloth or wreath underneath and forming part of a crest; an orle, a wreath. It is customarily… | 5 |