Words Ending In BE

Last updated: October 1, 2026

103 of the 172,434 ENABLE words shown on this site are words that end in BE (about 0.060%). They run from BE at the short end to CLAUSTROPHOBE, COMPUTERPHOBE and MISTRANSCRIBE at the long end. By common tile values the top scorer is COMPUTERPHOBE (26 points); board bonuses aren't counted. 41 have no repeated letter at all. Different games use different dictionaries, so check your game's rules before relying on a word.

At a glance

Fact	Value
Words in this list	103
Share of the ENABLE list shown on this site	0.060%
Longest	`CLAUSTROPHOBE`, `COMPUTERPHOBE` and `MISTRANSCRIBE` and 2 more (13 letters)
Shortest	`BE` (2 letters)
Highest base score (common values)	`COMPUTERPHOBE`, 26
No repeated letters	41

Most common letter before BE

Letter	Words
O	35
I	27
U	13
M	8
E	6

What stands out

None of these words is a palindrome (the same backward and forward).
20 leave another word when the final BE is taken off, for example ABBE, ADOBE, AEROBE, BABE and BARBE → AB, ADO, AERO, BA and BAR.
The most common number of vowels (A, E, I, O, U) is 2, found in 38 of these words.
The average length is 7.0 letters.
Before BE, the letter O appears most often (35 words).

All -BE words

2 letters 1

3 letters 1

obe

4 letters 18

abbe babe cube gibe gybe jibe jube kibe lobe lube mabe nabe robe rube sabe tube unbe vibe

5 letters 18

adobe barbe bombe bribe combe daube gambe glebe globe grebe jambe kibbe maybe plebe probe rebbe thebe tribe

6 letters 13

aerobe caribe coombe crambe enrobe ephebe flambe imbibe jujube phoebe scribe strobe unrobe

7 letters 7

ascribe astilbe disrobe earlobe microbe reprobe saprobe

8 letters 14

anaerobe bathrobe blowtube buncombe conglobe describe diatribe drawtube geoprobe inscribe outbribe subtribe wardrobe zoophobe

9 letters 14

acrophobe astrolabe conscribe cryoprobe flashcube flashtube garderobe homophobe hypercube phototube prescribe proscribe subscribe xenophobe

10 letters 6

agoraphobe chifforobe microprobe negrophobe redescribe transcribe

11 letters 5

ailurophobe chromophobe misdescribe superscribe technophobe

12 letters 1

circumscribe

13 letters 5

claustrophobe computerphobe mistranscribe overprescribe oversubscribe

Using these words

To find words ending in BE from your own letters, use the Word Unscrambler with BE in Ends with, or try a pattern such as ???BE in the Crossword Solver. Words come from the open ENABLE word list. Different games use different dictionaries, so always check the rules of your game.