Yes, Binkie. I agree with Linda. Another example of words just ending in "s" is iris -- which plural would be irises. And cries went through on my game, as did tries. Maybe you went too fast and might have reversed two letters, and intented to do cries, but it might have come out creis, or something like that. I know, often, my hit rate goes down because I get going so fast, I don't really see exactly what I've written, even though I thought I wrote the right one.
I'm stumped on the common words this time. Just one away from the standard puzzle.
Cheers,
3-B