5-Letter Words With U as the Third Letter
Looking for five-letter words with U as the third letter? There are 455 of them in the tournament word lists, and every one is on this page. The most common, like WOULD, COULD, SOUTH, sit right at the top.
Unlike alphabetical lists that bury likely answers in the middle, this list is sorted by how often each word appears in everyday English. Scan the first rows for probable answers; dig deeper for rare, high-scoring plays.
Most common
- would9
- could8
- south8
- found9
- house8
- hours8
- study9
- young9
- court7
- sound6
- adult6
- stuff11
- cause7
- round6
- trust5
- youth11
- count7
- drugs7
- louis5
- tours5
All 455 words (the small number on each word is its Scrabble point value)
- touch 10
- mount 7
- abuse 7
- truth 8
- clubs 9
- equal 14
- mouse 7
- truck 11
- route 5
- blues 7
- mouth 10
- fruit 8
- bound 8
- truly 8
- yours 8
- doubt 8
- usual 5
- laura 5
- pound 8
- tough 9
- fault 8
- fluid 9
- rough 9
- acute 7
- trunk 9
- sauce 7
- drunk 10
- brush 10
- gauge 7
- laugh 9
- chuck 16
- stuck 11
- squad 15
- drums 8
- sluts 5
- thumb 12
- scuba 9
- rouge 6
- wound 9
- flush 11
- souls 5
- vault 8
- crude 8
- coupe 9
- plush 10
- pause 7
- couch 12
- skull 9
- plugs 8
- sauna 5
- cruel 7
- blunt 7
- flute 8
- equip 16
- pouch 12
- reuse 5
- bluff 13
- squid 15
- crush 10
- cough 11
- plump 11
- studs 6
- dough 10
- clues 7
- trump 9
- chunk 14
- fauna 8
- spurs 7
- crust 7
- mound 8
- hound 9
- soups 7
- haute 8
- stunt 5
- blush 10
- truss 5
- mould 8
- stump 9
- thugs 9
- plume 9
- louie 5
- brute 7
- fluke 12
- druid 7
- lousy 8
- stubs 7
- azure 14
- haunt 8
- glued 7
- shuts 8
- deuce 8
- skunk 13
- nouns 5
- squat 14
- sault 5
- truce 7
- waugh 12
- pluck 13
- slump 9
- swung 9
- snuff 11
- flung 9
- chute 10
- fouls 8
- fluff 14
- rouse 5
- gauss 6
- mourn 7
- blurb 9
- churn 10
- prune 7
- crumb 11
- taupe 7
- plumb 11
- grunt 6
- shunt 8
- mauve 10
- fours 8
- gauze 15
- amuse 7
- saute 5
- pours 7
- bough 11
- gourd 7
- plums 9
- slurp 7
- brunt 7
- saucy 10
- touts 5
- slums 7
- squaw 17
- bouts 7
- thump 12
- bruin 7
- slugs 6
- rouen 5
- glues 6
- blume 9
- stung 6
- gluon 6
- slush 8
- lough 9
- vouch 13
- clung 8
- clump 11
- etude 6
- gaunt 6
- crump 11
- fluor 8
- spurt 7
- erupt 7
- taunt 5
- sturt 5
- snuck 11
- alums 7
- chump 14
- blurs 7
- truer 5
- slung 6
- gaudy 10
- caulk 11
- joule 12
- gouge 7
- gruff 12
- coups 9
- thunk 12
- stull 5
- scuff 13
- cruse 7
- chums 12
- slurs 5
- doula 6
- bourg 8
- elude 6
- gault 6
- usury 8
- klutz 18
- lauds 6
- shute 8
- jaunt 12
- louse 5
- scull 7
- flume 10
- usurp 7
- chubs 12
- loupe 7
- stuns 5
- joust 12
- feuds 9
- grubs 8
- hauls 8
- douce 8
- exult 12
- exude 13
- fount 8
- cluck 13
- kauri 9
- kluge 10
- clued 8
- wrung 9
- inure 5
- stupa 7
- boule 7
- shuck 14
- thuja 15
- squib 16
- plunk 11
- abuts 7
- routh 8
- youse 8
- abuzz 25
- spuds 8
- cruet 7
- soupy 10
- prude 8
- snubs 7
- blued 8
- blurt 7
- shuns 8
- smuts 7
- douse 6
- gruel 6
- bouse 7
- bluer 7
- flunk 12
- sours 5
- spurn 7
- flues 8
- grump 10
- stunk 9
- fauns 8
- bluey 10
- moult 7
- bourn 7
- amuck 13
- bruit 7
- pouty 10
- haugh 12
- clunk 11
- routs 5
- shush 11
- gouty 9
- glume 8
- flubs 10
- sauls 5
- touse 5
- squab 16
- uvula 8
- mousy 10
- ovule 8
- mauls 7
- gauzy 18
- slunk 9
- tsuba 7
- elute 5
- scuds 8
- bluet 7
- pouts 7
- daunt 6
- aquae 14
- smush 10
- louts 5
- trull 5
- souks 9
- douma 8
- oculi 7
- wauls 8
- chugs 11
- maund 8
- poult 7
- ajuga 13
- baulk 11
- brung 8
- loups 7
- sculp 9
- skuas 9
- coude 8
- whump 15
- fauve 11
- roups 7
- skulk 13
- druse 6
- thuds 9
- roues 5
- loury 8
- scums 9
- churl 10
- glute 6
- rhumb 12
- daube 8
- trues 5
- whups 13
- scute 7
- thuya 11
- frugs 9
- vaunt 8
- frump 12
- scudo 8
- thurl 8
- drubs 8
- sough 9
- brume 9
- trued 6
- brugh 11
- chuff 16
- alula 5
- scurf 10
- azuki 18
- gluey 9
- drupe 8
- adunc 8
- adust 6
- agues 6
- ahull 8
- aquas 14
- arums 7
- bauds 8
- bhuts 10
- blubs 9
- bousy 10
- brusk 11
- bruts 7
- cauld 8
- cauls 7
- chufa 13
- churr 10
- couth 10
- cruck 13
- cruds 8
- cruor 7
- crura 7
- daubs 8
- dauby 11
- dauts 6
- dhuti 9
- doums 8
- doura 6
- educe 8
- educt 8
- enure 5
- equid 15
- eruct 7
- erugo 6
- etuis 5
- exurb 14
- faugh 12
- fauld 9
- feuar 8
- feued 9
- flued 9
- fluky 15
- flump 12
- fluty 11
- fluyt 11
- gauds 7
- gaums 8
- gaurs 6
- geums 8
- gluer 6
- glugs 7
- glums 8
- gluts 6
- gouts 6
- grues 6
- grume 8
- haulm 10
- heuch 13
- heugh 12
- houri 8
- inurn 5
- jauks 16
- jaups 14
- joual 12
- jouks 16
- kaury 12
- knurl 9
- knurs 9
- krubi 11
- lauan 5
- leuds 6
- louma 7
- lours 5
- mauds 8
- mauts 7
- mouch 12
- moues 7
- neuks 9
- neume 7
- neums 7
- phuts 10
- plumy 12
- pouff 13
- poufs 10
- pruta 7
- roupy 10
- roust 5
- sauch 10
- saugh 9
- saury 8
- scudi 8
- sculk 11
- scups 9
- scuta 7
- scuts 7
- scuzz 25
- shuln 8
- shuls 8
- slubs 7
- slued 6
- slues 5
- sluff 11
- slurb 7
- snugs 6
- souse 5
- spued 8
- spues 7
- spume 9
- spumy 12
- sputa 7
- squeg 15
- stums 7
- stupe 7
- tauon 5
- tauts 5
- teuch 10
- teugh 9
- trugs 6
- wauks 12
- yauds 9
- yauld 9
- yaups 10
- yeuks 12
- yeuky 15
- yourn 8
- zouks 18
Points use Scrabble US letter values
Frequently asked questions
How many five-letter words are there with U as the third letter?
There are 455 five-letter words with U as the third letter in the tournament word lists. The most common are WOULD, COULD, SOUTH.
What are common five-letter words with U as the third letter?
WOULD, COULD, SOUTH, FOUND, HOUSE are the most frequently used. The full list of 455 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.