Words Ending In BES

Last updated: October 1, 2026

Counting only the ENABLE word list, 101 entries are words that end in BES. That is about 0.059% of the list. The longest are CLAUSTROPHOBES, COMPUTERPHOBES and MISTRANSCRIBES; the shortest is OBES. Using commonly used tile values, COMPUTERPHOBES (27 points) scores the most. 32 have no repeated letter at all. This is a general word list, not any game's official one; always check the rules of your game.

At a glance

Fact	Value
Words in this list	101
Share of the ENABLE list shown on this site	0.059%
Longest	`CLAUSTROPHOBES`, `COMPUTERPHOBES` and `MISTRANSCRIBES` and 2 more (14 letters)
Shortest	`OBES` (4 letters)
Highest base score (common values)	`COMPUTERPHOBES`, 27
No repeated letters	32

Most common letter before BES

Letter	Words
O	34
I	28
U	13
M	8
A	6

Patterns in this list

None of these words is a palindrome (the same backward and forward).
19 leave another word when the final BES is taken off, for example ABBES, ADOBES, AEROBES, BABES and BARBES → 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 8.0 letters.
Before BES, the letter O appears most often (34 words).

All -BES words

4 letters 1

obes

5 letters 19

abbes babes cubes gibes gybes jibes jubes kibes lobes lubes mabes nabes ribes robes rubes sabes tabes tubes vibes

6 letters 17

adobes barbes bombes bribes combes daubes gambes glebes globes grebes jambes kibbes maybes plebes probes rebbes tribes

7 letters 13

aerobes caribes coombes crambes enrobes ephebes flambes imbibes jujubes phoebes scribes strobes unrobes

8 letters 7

ascribes astilbes disrobes earlobes microbes reprobes saprobes

9 letters 14

anaerobes bathrobes blowtubes buncombes conglobes describes diatribes drawtubes geoprobes inscribes outbribes subtribes wardrobes zoophobes

10 letters 14

acrophobes astrolabes conscribes cryoprobes flashcubes flashtubes garderobes homophobes hypercubes phototubes prescribes proscribes subscribes xenophobes

11 letters 6

agoraphobes chifforobes microprobes negrophobes redescribes transcribes

12 letters 4

ailurophobes misdescribes superscribes technophobes

13 letters 1

circumscribes

14 letters 5

claustrophobes computerphobes mistranscribes overprescribes oversubscribes

Using these words

To find words ending in BES from your own letters, use the Word Unscrambler with BES in Ends with, or try a pattern such as ???BES 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.