Used after a non-“short” vowel or a consonant, except in plurals.

blouse

braise

browse

bruise

cause

cheese

choose

clause

cleanse

cruise

dowse

drowse

ease

grease

house

lose

noise

pause

please

poise

praise

raise

rouse

tease

advertise

appease

applause

appraise

because

disease

displease

espouse

malaise

mayonnaise

menopause

turquoise

 

8 responses to “se as in please”

  1. Good Morning! Mashallah! The words are so useful. It would be useful and helpful if added a few more words so that we don’t have to search more.

    • alison says:

      Hi Safia, yes, I will be reviewing my lists in the coming fortnight and seeing how I can improve them, and adding morpheme-based lists so that my site is more helpful re word-building.

  2. Jessica says:

    Hi Alison! I’m Moira’s sister, Jessica. Love your work! (Just PRAISE)

  3. Kaley Nore says:

    Why is house up there?

  4. vihaan.srivatsa says:

    What about loose?

  5. anna says:

    Really wish there was a good video for teaching about se/ze endings. they’re all really dry. I guess people stop making cute songs once spelling gets this tricky?!

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