510 words

5-Letter Words With S as the Third Letter

All verified five-letter words with S fixed in the third position. In this positional slice, the most common letters immediately before and after it are A (121), U (90), and E (84) and E (133), T (108), and S (54). Use Word Finder to apply more filters.

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All 510 Words

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Page Snapshot

Share of dataset
4.1%

510 of 12,478 verified words

Five unique letters
42.9%

219 words without repeats

Average vowel count
1.7

Most common bucket: 2 vowels

Average Scrabble score
8.0

Calculated from standard English tile values

Reading Position 3 Constraints

Position pages are more precise than start-or-end pages because they preserve the full five-letter structure. The letters most often seen immediately before S in this slot are A (121), U (90), and E (84), while the letters most often seen immediately after it are E (133), T (108), and S (54).

This page represents 4.1% of the verified dataset. If you know a second confirmed slot or banned letters, the best move is to combine this position lock with another filter rather than scanning the full list manually.

Example Words From This List

APSES

a domed or vaulted recess or projection on a building especially the east end of a church

2 vowels | Has repeat | Scrabble 7
BASIL

any of several old world tropical aromatic annual or perennial herbs of the genus ocimum

2 vowels | No repeats | Scrabble 7
BISON

any of several large humped bovids having shaggy manes and large heads and short horns

2 vowels | No repeats | Scrabble 7
BOSON

any particle that obeys bose-einstein statistics but not the pauli exclusion principle

2 vowels | Has repeat | Scrabble 7
LISPS

a speech defect that involves pronouncing `s' like voiceless `th' and `z' like voiced `th'

1 vowels | Has repeat | Scrabble 7
VESTA

(roman mythology) goddess of the hearth and its fire whose flame was tended by vestal virgins

2 vowels | No repeats | Scrabble 8
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