Can you name the most common English words (5 letters or longer) with these uncommon 4-letter endings?

created by rockgolf

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All words are at least FIVE letters. In every case, these are the complete list of words with these endings among the 50,000 most commonly used words in the English language.
Source: List of all words
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Only words in the top 50,000 are capitalized. Other words from the list will appear all in lower-case as bonus answers.

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-MPLY

-SUME

-PICS

-IPER

-IPLE

-ZZLE

-EMPT

-EECH

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The End of the 'Word' Quiz

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Created Feb 16, 2013 in Language
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	mrsiriustab:	Mar 2nd, 2013 at 17:04 GMT		3 points
	Title response: It's the end of the word as we know it and I feel fine.

	Emerald_Fusion:	Mar 2nd, 2013 at 17:07 GMT		64 points
	What about: Razzle, Dazzle, Sizzle, Fizzle, Wiper. Those are all real words.

	Jeffhabfan:	Mar 2nd, 2013 at 17:09 GMT		36 points
	Dazzle is on this list (at least it was when I just did it) but I completely agree with the rest of that. I was so annoyed when sizzle and fizzle didn't work that I just quit playing. :p

	whisperloud:	Mar 2nd, 2013 at 17:10 GMT		7 points
	Also kempt

	Ubbiebubbie:	Mar 2nd, 2013 at 17:12 GMT		2 points
	"And that's the word with Perd. This is Perd Hapley."

	yearofglad:	Mar 2nd, 2013 at 17:15 GMT		17 points
	Yep, too many words that aren't on the lists. I read the instructions, how it's only including the top 50,000 words, but that's not interesting to me (or other commenters, apparently).

	WeaselKing1000:	Mar 2nd, 2013 at 17:17 GMT		4 points
	@Emerald_Fusion, Jeffhabfan, whisperloud: I was confused that words like 'subsume' and 'sizzle' weren't working for me, until I read the game description. It's clearly stated that they have to be 'common' English words, 'common' being defined here as any word that's in the 50,000 most-used list. Some of the words we all tried just don't make the cut.

	jajdude:	Mar 2nd, 2013 at 17:18 GMT		6 points
	thought the game just stopped working when I put sizzle and fizzle...wiper too

	Sanky:	Mar 2nd, 2013 at 17:24 GMT		4 points
	Wow, the IPLE ones were hard. That explains why three of them are at the very bottom. I kept thinking of IPPLE, so I was coming up with words like cripple and nipple.

	MRL:	Mar 2nd, 2013 at 17:35 GMT		9 points
	I wonder how much variations in the words are responsible for the discrepancy between what we think of as being common and what is in the top 50K, and how much is due to everyday speech vs. literature. For example, I'd bet dollars to doughnuts that "wipers" is used more often in everyday speech than "juniper", but it's actually quite plausible that "juniper" is used more than "wiper" (singular) in literature.

	object_holder:	Mar 2nd, 2013 at 17:35 GMT		19 points
	In retrospect, it should have been obvious that "shizzle" and "verklempt" aren't among the 50,000 most common English words.

	bigbill16:	Mar 2nd, 2013 at 17:36 GMT		1 point
	Clearly all the people complaining about words not being on here didn't care to read the directions. If it's not one of the 50,000 most commonly used words in the english language, then it didn't make the cut.

	matt01:	Mar 2nd, 2013 at 17:39 GMT		7 points
	Surprised wiper isn't common enough tbh seeing as most adults drive.

	Sam_Hattz:	Mar 2nd, 2013 at 17:48 GMT		6 points
	@Emerald_Fusion I tried most of those too. After checking the source, it seems the problem is that the quiz uses raw data from every single Google Books entry, which would knock words which are more modern and/or less literary/scientific out of the top 50,000.

	xolkan:	Mar 2nd, 2013 at 18:06 GMT		3 points
	I tried "Bedazzle" for -zzle

	Mutford:	Mar 2nd, 2013 at 18:06 GMT		6 points
	@Sam_Hattz: Agreed. I think for instance "sizzle" would be more common than, say "Beech" or "Caliper" based on its use in fast food commercials alone. Another word missing: "Limply" but I'm not sure if that's common. I doubt Viagra goes that route with its commercials.

	erictyhu:	Mar 2nd, 2013 at 18:10 GMT		2 points
	While the concerns about the source's methodology Sam brought up are correct and good to point out, I checking out the source (one Googlite named Peter Norvig) to be pretty fascinating... the dude's a researcher who has done all sorts of interesting things, including written some code for a computer to solve a sudoku puzzle ("uzzle" word alert)... all very interesting stuff to me... so thanks to rockgolf for broadening my horizons...

	rockgolf:	Mar 2nd, 2013 at 18:16 GMT		2 points
	To repeat a note from the archived comments: The full list of the source is 97,000 words long - anything that was found a minimum 100,000 times - and includes these additional words: Limply (#55123), Subsume (#54990), Subtopics (#81826), Subtropics (#81826), Riper (#50315 - so close!), Sandpiper (#53668), Wiper (#55448), Worshiper (#58555 - and I'd never seen that spelling either), Kuiper (#62004), Sizzle (#72987), Nonexempt (#82916), Creech (#63189) & Meech (#78174).

	thedpr:	Mar 2nd, 2013 at 18:20 GMT		4 points
	Isn't "Olympics" a proper noun only? Seems strange to count it.

	Lexistential:	Mar 2nd, 2013 at 18:25 GMT		2 points
	I was very surprised "riper" didn't work. Hard to believe "juniper" is more common, but cool quiz nonetheless!