5-Letter Words With C and U
There are 270 five-letter words with C and U in them. The list below ranks them by real-world frequency, so everyday words like MUSIC, COULD, COURT appear before the obscurities.
Every entry comes from the tournament word lists, the kind of list used in Wordle, Scrabble, and Words With Friends, so each one is a genuine dictionary word.
Most common
- music9
- could8
- court7
- quick20
- cause7
- focus10
- count7
- touch10
- clubs9
- truck11
- occur9
- lunch10
- dutch11
- lucky14
- cloud8
- acute7
- curve10
- juice14
- sauce7
- bunch12
All 270 words (the small number on each word is its Scrabble point value)
- chuck 16
- stuck 11
- uncle 7
- punch 12
- scuba 9
- scout 7
- bucks 13
- cubic 11
- crude 8
- coupe 9
- couch 12
- cruel 7
- curry 10
- pouch 12
- curse 7
- uncut 7
- juicy 17
- ducks 12
- crush 10
- cough 11
- cutie 7
- ounce 7
- fucks 14
- locus 7
- clues 7
- chunk 14
- scrub 9
- crust 7
- curly 10
- incur 7
- cured 8
- cubes 9
- cures 7
- cuffs 13
- hutch 13
- ulcer 7
- cunts 7
- butch 12
- lucid 8
- cupid 10
- deuce 8
- pubic 11
- ducts 8
- truce 7
- pluck 13
- mucho 12
- chute 10
- mulch 12
- yucca 12
- cults 7
- tunic 7
- curls 7
- munch 12
- churn 10
- crumb 11
- gulch 11
- clout 7
- curie 7
- cumin 9
- mucus 9
- sucre 7
- curio 7
- quack 20
- curbs 9
- saucy 10
- ducky 15
- cubed 10
- scrum 9
- scour 7
- conus 7
- vouch 13
- recur 7
- clung 8
- curvy 13
- clump 11
- duchy 14
- crump 11
- hunch 13
- ficus 10
- culpa 9
- snuck 11
- locum 9
- chump 14
- tucks 11
- caulk 11
- coups 9
- scuff 13
- cruse 7
- chums 12
- cubby 14
- cuddy 12
- lurch 10
- curia 7
- sucky 14
- pucks 13
- runic 7
- sumac 9
- scull 7
- chubs 12
- hocus 10
- cuvee 10
- humic 12
- cuppa 11
- yucky 17
- douce 8
- cuter 7
- croup 9
- cushy 13
- recut 7
- duces 8
- ducal 8
- cluck 13
- cutty 10
- cubit 9
- arcus 7
- clued 8
- mucin 9
- cully 10
- shuck 14
- dunce 8
- mucky 16
- junco 14
- mutch 12
- caput 9
- culex 14
- curds 8
- cruet 7
- scaup 9
- lucre 7
- cusps 9
- auric 7
- cecum 11
- amuck 13
- clunk 11
- cutey 10
- culls 7
- vacua 10
- bunco 9
- casus 7
- fucus 10
- cutis 7
- luces 7
- pucka 13
- bucko 13
- cornu 7
- puces 9
- culms 9
- ducat 8
- scuds 8
- lucks 11
- incus 7
- rucks 11
- ascus 7
- musca 9
- oculi 7
- schul 10
- chugs 11
- centu 7
- duroc 8
- mucks 13
- sculp 9
- chiru 10
- culti 7
- coude 8
- ludic 8
- cuing 8
- mucor 9
- sulci 7
- scums 9
- ictus 7
- churl 10
- cuber 9
- curfs 10
- culet 7
- scute 7
- scudo 8
- hucks 14
- chuff 16
- scurf 10
- curst 7
- adunc 8
- aulic 7
- cauld 8
- cauls 7
- chufa 13
- churr 10
- clour 7
- couth 10
- coypu 12
- cruck 13
- cruds 8
- cruor 7
- crura 7
- cubeb 11
- cuifs 10
- cuish 10
- cukes 11
- culch 12
- cupel 9
- cuppy 14
- curch 12
- curdy 11
- curer 7
- curet 7
- curns 7
- currs 7
- cusec 9
- cusks 11
- cusso 7
- cutch 12
- cutes 7
- cutin 7
- cutup 9
- dunch 11
- ecrus 7
- educe 8
- educt 8
- eruct 7
- fichu 13
- guaco 8
- gucks 12
- heuch 13
- jucos 14
- mouch 12
- mucid 10
- mucro 9
- mulct 9
- nucha 10
- picul 9
- pudic 10
- ruche 10
- sauch 10
- scaur 7
- scudi 8
- sculk 11
- scups 9
- scuta 7
- scuts 7
- scuzz 25
- teuch 10
- umiac 9
- uncap 9
- uncia 7
- uncos 7
- uncoy 10
- uncus 7
- ureic 7
- yucas 10
- yucch 15
- yucks 14
Points use Scrabble US letter values
Frequently asked questions
How many five-letter words are there with C and U in them?
There are 270 five-letter words with C and U in them in the tournament word lists. The most common are MUSIC, COULD, COURT.
What are common five-letter words with C and U in them?
MUSIC, COULD, COURT, QUICK, CAUSE are the most frequently used. The full list of 270 words on this page is sorted by everyday frequency, so the common ones come first.
Why are the words in this order?
Words are ranked by how often they appear in a trillion-word corpus of written English, most common first. That surfaces likely puzzle answers instead of hiding them mid-alphabet. Use the sort control to switch to alphabetical or points order.