5 Letter Words Ending with E

This article contains a curated list of 5 letter words ending with ‘E’. Go through them and use them wherever appropriate in your speech and writing.

Table of Contents

• List of 150+ 5 Letter Words Ending with E
• The Silent ‘E’
  • Five Main Functions of the Silent ‘E’
• Frequently Asked Questions on Words Ending with E

List of 150+ 5 Letter Words Ending with E

The Silent ‘E’

The silent ‘E’ refers to the letter ‘E’ found at the end of some words. You might be wondering what its role is if it is silent and not pronounced. Well, there are some notable functions for the silent letter ‘E’ at the end of words. Let us look at each of them and understand how it works.

Five Main Functions of the Silent ‘E’

The silent ‘E’

• Forms a new word which has a meaning totally different from the word that does not have the ‘E’. For example, ‘can’ and ‘cane’.
• Changes the pronunciation of the word by making the vowel before the final consonant a long vowel. The long vowel is pronounced just like the name of the letter. For example, the ‘O’ in ‘note’ and ‘A’ in ‘plane’.
• Do not let the letters like ‘I’, ‘U’ and ‘V’ become the last letter of the word. For example, ‘glue’, ‘due’, ‘tie’, ‘die’, ‘have’ and ‘alive’.
• Softens letters such as ‘C’ and ‘G’ as in ‘ice’, ‘rice’, ‘cage’ and ‘rage’
• Makes the phoneme /θ/ (th) voiced. For example, the sound of the letters ’th’ in ‘think’ is different from ‘th’ in ‘these’.

Now, take a look at the following sets of words to learn how the words differ from each other when the letter ‘E’ is added at the end. Carefully, observe the phonetic transcription to comprehend the change in pronunciation.

Frequently Asked Questions on Words Ending with E

1. List 10 five-letter words ending with ‘E’.

• Eagle
• Blame
• Ankle
• Genre
• Glide
• Plate
• Grate
• Shine
• Twine
• Prune

1. List some 5 letter verbs ending with ‘E’.

• Glare
• Stare
• Flare
• Serve
• Mince
• Snore
• Glide
• Leave
• Quote
• Issue

1. List five 5 letter adjectives ending with ‘E’.

• Whole
• White
• Large
• Loose
• Close

1. What is the silent ‘E’?

The silent ‘E’ refers to the letter ‘E’ that follows the final consonant preceded by a vowel. In such words, the letter ‘e’ is not pronounced; instead, it changes the pronunciation of the whole word, by making the previous vowel a long vowel. The silent ‘E’ rule is also referred to as the vowel-consonant-e pattern of words.