Words containing SS

There are 9,482 words containing SS in our word list. 390 of them are common everyday words, such as BUSINESS, ACCESS, ACROSS and ASSOCIATION. They range from 3 to 15 letters, and 10-letter words are the biggest group, with 1,338.

Words: 9,482
Common words: 390
Longest: ANTIDEPRESSANTS; 15 letters
Top score: JAZZINESSES; 36 points

A double S usually follows a short vowel or sits in the middle of the word, as in BUSINESS, ACCESS and ACROSS.

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3-letter words (1)

4-letter words (36)

less
loss
miss
pass
boss
kiss
mass
mess
bass
piss
fuss
jess
moss
ness
toss
diss
hiss
joss
lass
puss
buss
cuss
doss
fess
foss
psst
sass
tass
cess
coss
koss
muss
suss
wuss
ossa
wiss

5-letter words (76)

class
cross
guess
issue
press
dress
glass
asset
bless
brass
essay
grass
gross
jesse
swiss
bliss
chess
messy
abyss
assay
floss
fussy
gloss
massa
masse
missy
posse
sassy
sissy
truss
amass
amiss
bossy
crass
fossa
gauss
lasso
mossy
passe
bassi
basso
cissy
cress
dross
fosse
gassy
hissy
hussy
issei
kissy
loess

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6-letter words (210)

access
across
issues
assets
assume
issued
missed
passed
stress
unless
assess
assist
assure
essays
excess
lesser
lesson
losses
messed
passes
pissed
tissue
vessel
assert
assign
badass
bosses
bypass
classy
fossil
gossip
hassle
kissed
kisses
masses
misses
recess
tossed
assent
duress
gassed
glossy
grassy
harass
issuer
lessen
messes
passer
pisses
abbess
assays

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7-letter words (553)

message
missing
process
success
address
classes
classic
discuss
express
massive
mission
passing
session
witness
actress
assault
assists
assumed
assured
blessed
crossed
dressed
dresses
embassy
endless
essence
fitness
glasses
goddess
illness
lessons
massage
missile
passage
passion
passive
possess
pressed
useless
vessels
assumes
blossom
burgess
chassis
compass
confess
crosses
dessert
dismiss
dissent
duchess

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8-letter words (1,010)

business
possible
pressure
assembly
congress
messages
possibly
princess
progress
assigned
assisted
assuming
blessing
crossing
darkness
dressing
goodness
homeless
kindness
missions
obsessed
passport
password
pressing
sessions
stressed
weakness
wireless
accessed
assassin
assemble
asserted
assessed
careless
classics
clueless
countess
distress
emission
fairness
fearless
flawless
fortress
guessing
harassed
harmless
helpless
hopeless
massacre
mattress
missiles

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9-letter words (1,150)

assistant
essential
expressed
necessary
professor
addressed
addresses
admission
associate
awareness
classical
classroom
depressed
discussed
dismissed
emissions
excessive
happiness
impressed
passenger
processes
witnessed
witnesses
accessory
assaulted
assembled
assertion
assessing
assisting
assurance
blessings
confessed
countless
crossover
discusses
dismissal
dissolved
expresses
greatness
illnesses
massively
messaging
messenger
necessity
obsession
oppressed
passports
passwords
pointless
possessed
possesses

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10-letter words (1,338)

assistance
associated
businesses
commission
depression
discussion
expression
impossible
permission
successful
accessible
addressing
aggressive
ambassador
assessment
assignment
associates
assumption
classified
discussing
harassment
impression
impressive
passengers
passionate
possession
processing
profession
regardless
submission
admissions
aggression
assistants
brightness
classmates
classrooms
compassion
compressed
concession
concussion
confession
depressing
distressed
essentials
expressing
loneliness
missionary
oppression
possessing
procession
processors

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11-letter words (1,285)

association
possibility
discussions
embarrassed
essentially
necessarily
nonetheless
progressive
unnecessary
accessories
ambassadors
assessments
assignments
assumptions
businessman
businessmen
commissions
compression
concessions
confessions
congressman
dissolution
expressions
forgiveness
impressions
meaningless
possessions
predecessor
professions
progressing
progression
renaissance
seriousness
submissions
suppression
willingness
assassinate
assimilated
associating
awkwardness
cleanliness
congressmen
correctness
defenseless
disseminate
distressing
encompasses
excessively
foolishness
grasshopper
hairdresser

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12-letter words (1,220)

professional
associations
commissioner
embarrassing
nevertheless
successfully
transmission
aggressively
commissioned
dissertation
missionaries
predecessors
unsuccessful
assassinated
assimilation
completeness
confessional
dissatisfied
disseminated
effortlessly
encompassing
faithfulness
homelessness
inaccessible
intermission
narcissistic
passionately
preparedness
progressives
relentlessly
successively
agribusiness
carelessness
compressions
connoisseurs
declassified
disassembled
dispossessed
dissociation
dissociative
eyewitnesses
friendliness
grasshoppers
hairdressers
hairdressing
headmistress
helplessness
hopelessness
impressively
inadmissible
indebtedness

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13-letter words (1,046)

congressional
consciousness
effectiveness
possibilities
professionals
accessibility
assassination
commissioners
compassionate
embarrassment
commissioning
dissemination
impossibility
progressively
repercussions
righteousness
transmissions
unnecessarily
unwillingness
assassinating
assertiveness
businesswoman
congresswoman
connectedness
decompression
dispassionate
disseminating
dissertations
expressionism
expressionist
forgetfulness
impressionism
impressionist
inclusiveness
inventiveness
irrepressible
necessitating
powerlessness
professorship
progressivism
transgression
admissibility
agreeableness
airworthiness
ambassadorial
arbitrariness
assemblywoman
attentiveness
businesswomen
concessionary
confessionals

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14-letter words (890)

classification
professionally
attractiveness
quintessential
reconnaissance
responsiveness
unprofessional
unsuccessfully
aggressiveness
antidepressant
arrondissement
assassinations
businesspeople
decommissioned
embarrassingly
impressionable
microprocessor
reasonableness
ridiculousness
thoughtfulness
transgressions
unpleasantness
ambassadorship
breathlessness
businessperson
concessionaire
disassociation
embarrassments
expressionless
expressiveness
impressionists
incompleteness
incompressible
indecisiveness
meaningfulness
multiprocessor
possessiveness
pressurization
professorships
rebelliousness
retransmission
vindictiveness
weightlessness
agribusinesses
assistantships
bremsstrahlung
capriciousness
classificatory
colorblindness
congresspeople
congressperson

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15-letter words (667)

antidepressants
classifications
competitiveness
dissatisfaction
professionalism
appropriateness
decommissioning
microprocessors
resourcefulness
trustworthiness
unconsciousness
compassionately
compressibility
congressionally
destructiveness
dispassionately
distinctiveness
impossibilities
impressionistic
inaccessibility
ineffectiveness
meaninglessness
unrighteousness
adventurousness
ambassadorships
arrondissements
assimilationist
concessionaires
connoisseurship
consciousnesses
crashworthiness
dissimilarities
expressionistic
inadmissibility
inattentiveness
industriousness
inquisitiveness
intussusception
multiprocessing
nearsightedness
nonprofessional
pessimistically
pretentiousness
professionalize
progressiveness
thoughtlessness
unprepossessing
acquisitiveness
bittersweetness
blameworthiness
businesspersons

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Darker borders mark common everyday words. Rarer words follow in each group.

Questions

How many words containing SS are there?

Our word list has 9,482 words containing SS. 390 of them are common everyday words.

What is the longest word containing SS?

The longest have 15 letters, for example ANTIDEPRESSANTS, CLASSIFICATIONS and COMPETITIVENESS.

Which word containing SS scores the most points?

Using standard letter tile values, JAZZINESSES scores 36 points, the most of any word containing SS in our list.