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There are 2,717 words ending in -ss in AltF Lexicon. Matched on how the word is spelled, not on grammar: any word whose last letters are “ss” is here, whether or not that ending is doing any grammatical work. The list is ordered by commonness — how often the word turns up in a large corpus of everyday English — then alphabetically, so the ones you already know come first.
Showing the 2,000 most common of 2,717 — ranked by how often each word appears in everyday English. The averages above describe those 2,000 words, not all 2,717.
Definitions come from Princeton's WordNet. Every word below the fold links to the same treatment — meaning, syllables, stress and pronunciation.
2,000 words, 200 to a page, most common first. The dots after each word are its commonness band.
Longer and shorter forms of the same tail, each with its own list.
Words and definitions come from Princeton University’s WordNet; commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.
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