Words that End in "-aste"

Name these common words that end with "aste", with some exceptions. There are quite a few prefix/compound words in this one, so to make your life easier, they are tan instead just light blue.

Words under 0.000003% usage on Google Ngram are omitted.

Prefixes added to words on the list are only included if they are common and have become their own distinct words.

Words like "present" and "absent" would both be included, for instance.

One loanword is included. It's a nice dusty rose!

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Aftertaste

Baste

Caste

Chaste

Distaste

Haste

Lambaste

Namaste

Paste

Posthaste

Taste

Toothpaste

Waste

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4 Comments

Level 88

Jun 16, 2022

Distaste is much more common than foretaste and seems to have developed a meaning of its own.

Level 83

Jun 16, 2022

You are 100% right. I must have misread the spreadsheet with my data on it. I thought it was odd so I looked up both words and Merriam-Webster listed the first couple definitions of distaste as archaic, so I figured that “distasteful” must be the only modern usage of it. Turns out the common usage is listed as a secondary definition for some reason… weird.

Level 88

Jun 17, 2022

Dang I thought namaste might be there :)

Such an interesting and fun series. All the endings are all so well chosen. Thanks!

Level 83

Jun 17, 2022

Thanks for the kind words! Namaste… My word list didn’t even have that one! I am going to check that on Google Ngram because it’d be a neat word to include.