Sense

5 lettersnouncommon

Updated June 2026

Definition

Any of the faculties of sight, smell, hearing, taste, and touch.

“Her sense of smell helped her detect the gas leak.”

Pronunciation

IPA

/sɛns/

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Synonyms

feeling perception awareness

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Wordle

S bookends with ENS middle; silent E ending.

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Scrabble

Worth 5 points; versatile for parallel plays with the E's.

Words Related to Sense

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cense dense lense mense pense seise sence sensa senso sensu tense

Words you can make from Sense

Shorter words formed from the letters in “sense”.

ense eses esne esse seen sees

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6-letter words you can spell by adding one letter to “sense”.

lenses scenes

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