5-Letter Words With L and U
There are 394 five-letter words with L and U in them. The list below ranks them by real-world frequency, so everyday words like WOULD, COULD, VALUE 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
- would9
- could8
- value8
- until5
- rules5
- adult6
- album9
- build8
- built7
- fully11
- louis5
- clubs9
- equal14
- rural5
- blues7
- ultra5
- truly8
- lunch10
- pulse7
- usual5
All 394 words (the small number on each word is its Scrabble point value)
- lucky 14
- laura 5
- fault 8
- fluid 9
- cloud 8
- laugh 9
- lotus 5
- sluts 5
- uncle 7
- guild 7
- flush 11
- ruled 6
- souls 5
- vault 8
- awful 11
- quilt 14
- flour 8
- bulbs 9
- plush 10
- fuels 8
- skull 9
- plugs 8
- cruel 7
- pupil 9
- blunt 7
- flute 8
- bluff 13
- pulls 7
- aloud 6
- guilt 6
- lunar 5
- bulls 7
- plump 11
- locus 7
- clues 7
- lungs 6
- ruler 5
- tulip 7
- curly 10
- blush 10
- layup 10
- lupus 7
- bully 10
- mould 8
- mural 7
- ulcer 7
- quail 14
- plume 9
- louie 5
- bulky 14
- fluke 12
- lures 5
- lucid 8
- lousy 8
- guile 6
- glued 7
- mules 7
- sault 5
- pluck 13
- bulge 8
- slump 9
- flung 9
- mulch 12
- fouls 8
- fluff 14
- gully 9
- cults 7
- quill 14
- blurb 9
- butyl 10
- mogul 8
- aural 5
- curls 7
- lumen 7
- lusty 8
- gulch 11
- lumps 9
- clout 7
- plumb 11
- bugle 8
- tubal 7
- lupin 7
- lubes 7
- plums 9
- slurp 7
- gulls 6
- lured 6
- slums 7
- sully 8
- slugs 6
- glues 6
- hulls 8
- blume 9
- gluon 6
- slush 8
- lough 9
- surly 8
- clung 8
- clump 11
- tulle 5
- fluor 8
- lumpy 12
- quell 14
- lemur 7
- utile 5
- culpa 9
- bolus 7
- locum 9
- alums 7
- blurs 7
- lurks 9
- ruble 7
- gulag 7
- duals 6
- slung 6
- burly 10
- lusts 5
- ghoul 9
- caulk 11
- joule 12
- shaul 8
- stull 5
- luger 6
- lurid 6
- mulls 7
- slurs 5
- doula 6
- elude 6
- gault 6
- duels 6
- gules 6
- lurch 10
- lunge 6
- klutz 18
- lauds 6
- solus 5
- nulls 5
- louse 5
- ileum 7
- rubel 7
- scull 7
- flume 10
- loupe 7
- lunes 5
- dural 6
- afoul 8
- sulky 12
- talus 5
- lurex 12
- hauls 8
- lunas 5
- exult 12
- annul 5
- ducal 8
- ulnar 5
- cluck 13
- kluge 10
- pulps 9
- clued 8
- cully 10
- bulla 7
- boule 7
- quale 14
- plunk 11
- lutes 5
- culex 14
- kugel 10
- ilium 7
- unlit 5
- lutea 5
- julep 14
- blued 8
- lucre 7
- blurt 7
- solum 7
- gruel 6
- ulama 7
- sulfa 8
- bluer 7
- flunk 12
- flues 8
- hullo 8
- lubed 8
- bluey 10
- moult 7
- flout 8
- mulla 7
- pupal 9
- clunk 11
- dully 9
- oleum 7
- hurls 8
- culls 7
- ulema 7
- lulls 5
- glume 8
- gulps 8
- taluk 9
- ileus 5
- flubs 10
- muhly 13
- sauls 5
- gulfs 9
- luces 7
- bulks 11
- pilus 7
- uvula 8
- ovule 8
- hulks 12
- hurly 11
- mauls 7
- linum 7
- culms 9
- luaus 5
- pulpy 12
- slunk 9
- elute 5
- bluet 7
- lucks 11
- uveal 8
- purls 7
- dulls 6
- louts 5
- gular 6
- trull 5
- qualm 16
- oculi 7
- kulak 13
- schul 10
- dulse 6
- sural 5
- wauls 8
- poilu 7
- poult 7
- baulk 11
- fugal 9
- loups 7
- duple 8
- sculp 9
- burls 7
- culti 7
- ludic 8
- ludes 6
- ulpan 7
- sulks 9
- skulk 13
- quoll 14
- fulls 8
- lehua 8
- babul 9
- loury 8
- tules 5
- velum 10
- sulci 7
- algum 8
- churl 10
- jugal 13
- luffa 11
- yulan 8
- glute 6
- lungi 6
- hilum 10
- muley 10
- culet 7
- pilau 7
- sulfo 8
- thurl 8
- ouzel 14
- pulis 7
- umbel 9
- alula 5
- fusil 8
- gluey 9
- ahull 8
- almud 8
- almug 8
- ampul 9
- aulic 7
- blubs 9
- bubal 9
- buhls 10
- bulgy 11
- butle 7
- cauld 8
- cauls 7
- clour 7
- culch 12
- cupel 9
- dulia 6
- fauld 9
- filum 10
- flued 9
- fluky 15
- flump 12
- fluty 11
- fluyt 11
- fugle 9
- furls 8
- fusel 8
- fuzil 17
- glout 6
- gluer 6
- glugs 7
- glums 8
- gluts 6
- gulfy 12
- gulpy 11
- haulm 10
- hilus 8
- hulas 8
- hulky 15
- iglus 6
- joual 12
- jural 12
- jurel 12
- knurl 9
- larum 7
- lauan 5
- letup 7
- leuds 6
- lieus 5
- louma 7
- lours 5
- luffs 11
- luged 7
- luges 6
- lulus 5
- lumas 7
- lunet 5
- lunks 9
- lunts 5
- lurer 5
- lusus 5
- luted 6
- luxes 12
- miaul 7
- mulct 9
- muled 8
- nurls 5
- ousel 5
- picul 9
- plumy 12
- puled 8
- puler 7
- pules 7
- pulik 11
- rugal 6
- sculk 11
- shlub 10
- shuln 8
- shuls 8
- slubs 7
- slued 6
- slues 5
- sluff 11
- slurb 7
- sulus 5
- tolus 5
- uhlan 8
- ulans 5
- ulnad 6
- ulnae 5
- ulnas 5
- ulvas 8
- unlay 8
- unled 6
- unlet 5
- uplit 7
- ureal 5
- urial 5
- vulgo 9
- woful 11
- yauld 9
- yules 8
Points use Scrabble US letter values
Frequently asked questions
How many five-letter words are there with L and U in them?
There are 394 five-letter words with L and U in them in the tournament word lists. The most common are WOULD, COULD, VALUE.
What are common five-letter words with L and U in them?
WOULD, COULD, VALUE, UNTIL, RULES are the most frequently used. The full list of 394 words on this page is sorted by everyday frequency, so the common ones come first.
Are these valid Wordle words?
Nearly all of them. Wordle draws its answers from a curated list of common five-letter words, but it accepts almost any dictionary word as a guess, including the words on this page.