Verified pattern list
5 Letter Words With U
This verified list contains 938 CORE words with U, plus 313 entries in the broader extended tier.
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12 deterministic CORE selections
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What the U list contains
Where U appears
Vowels per word
- 1 vowel331 words
- 2 vowels477 words
- 3 vowels127 words
- 4 vowels3 words
Repeated letters
28%
263 of 938 CORE words repeat at least one letter.
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5 Letter Words With Two-Letter Patterns
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5 Letter Words With adjacent AU42 CORE · 20 extendedaudio, audit, aunts, aural5 Letter Words With adjacent BU63 CORE · 22 extendedabuse, album, bucks, buddy5 Letter Words With adjacent CU51 CORE · 33 extendedacute, cubed, cubes, cubic5 Letter Words With adjacent DU39 CORE · 20 extendedadult, ducks, ducts, duded5 Letter Words With adjacent EU9 CORE · 9 extendedfeuds, queue, reuse, adieu5 Letter Words With adjacent FU28 CORE · 9 extendedawful, fudge, fuels, fulls5 Letter Words With adjacent GU44 CORE · 14 extendedargue, begun, bogus, guard5 Letter Words With adjacent HU45 CORE · 15 extendedchuck, chugs, chums, chunk5 Letter Words With adjacent IU3 CORE · 0 extendedopium, odium, ilium5 Letter Words With adjacent JU14 CORE · 11 extendedjudge, juice, juicy, jumbo5 Letter Words With adjacent KU9 CORE · 9 extendedkudos, skulk, skull, skunk5 Letter Words With adjacent LU90 CORE · 26 extendedblued, bluer, blues, bluff5 Letter Words With adjacent MU40 CORE · 15 extendedamuse, gamut, mucks, mucus5 Letter Words With adjacent NU26 CORE · 5 extendedannul, bonus, donut, genus5 Letter Words With adjacent OU105 CORE · 19 extendedabout, aloud, bayou, bough5 Letter Words With adjacent PU47 CORE · 13 extendedinput, pucks, pudgy, puffs5 Letter Words With adjacent QU52 CORE · 10 extendedequal, equip, pique, quack5 Letter Words With adjacent RU90 CORE · 22 extendedbrunt, brush, brute, crude5 Letter Words With adjacent SU30 CORE · 14 extendedensue, issue, suave, sucks5 Letter Words With adjacent TU51 CORE · 14 extendeddatum, fetus, letup, lotus5 Letter Words With adjacent UA26 CORE · 9 extendedequal, guard, quack, quail5 Letter Words With adjacent UB34 CORE · 12 extendedclubs, cubed, cubes, cubic5 Letter Words With adjacent UC37 CORE · 14 extendedbucks, chuck, cluck, couch5 Letter Words With adjacent UD36 CORE · 11 extendedaloud, audio, audit, buddy5 Letter Words With adjacent UE50 CORE · 10 extendedargue, blued, bluer, blues5 Letter Words With adjacent UF20 CORE · 8 extendedbluff, buffs, cuffs, fluff5 Letter Words With adjacent UG35 CORE · 9 extendedbough, buggy, bugle, chugs5 Letter Words With adjacent UH0 CORE · 3 extended5 Letter Words With adjacent UI39 CORE · 3 extendedbuild, built, cuing, equip5 Letter Words With adjacent UJ1 CORE · 2 extendedjujus5 Letter Words With adjacent UK13 CORE · 3 extendeddukes, fluke, puked, pukes5 Letter Words With adjacent UL75 CORE · 35 extendedadult, annul, awful, bulbs5 Letter Words With adjacent UM88 CORE · 29 extendedalbum, bumps, bumpy, chums5 Letter Words With adjacent UN130 CORE · 23 extendedaunts, begun, blunt, bound5 Letter Words With adjacent UO7 CORE · 4 extendedbuoys, quota, quote, quoit5 Letter Words With adjacent UP42 CORE · 10 extendedcoups, duped, dupes, erupt5 Letter Words With adjacent UQ1 CORE · 0 extendedtuque5 Letter Words With adjacent UR112 CORE · 49 extendedaural, auras, azure, blurb5 Letter Words With adjacent US110 CORE · 43 extendedabuse, amuse, blush, bogus5 Letter Words With adjacent UT77 CORE · 24 extendedabout, acute, autos, bouts5 Letter Words With adjacent UV3 CORE · 2 extendedduvet, mauve, uvula5 Letter Words With adjacent UX3 CORE · 3 extendedbuxom, tuxes, auxin5 Letter Words With adjacent UY2 CORE · 2 extendedbuyer, guyed5 Letter Words With adjacent UZ8 CORE · 2 extendedfuzzy, gauze, abuzz, gauzy5 Letter Words With adjacent VU5 CORE · 1 extendedrevue, ovule, uvula, vulva5 Letter Words With adjacent WU3 CORE · 0 extendedswung, wurst, wussy5 Letter Words With adjacent XU4 CORE · 0 extendedexude, exult, nexus, exurb5 Letter Words With adjacent YU6 CORE · 2 extendedyucky, yummy, yucca, layup5 Letter Words With adjacent ZU2 CORE · 1 extendedazure, kudzu
Five-letter search guide
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U may appear in any of the five positions, so its position distribution is more useful here than treating it as a prefix or suffix. This page currently contains 938 CORE and 313 extended matches.
Where U appears is led by POSITION 1 with 58 CORE matches. Once U has a known position, switch to the matching position tile and use Contains only for the remaining required letters.
The largest vowel group has 2 vowels in 477 CORE words; 28% of the CORE cohort repeats at least one letter. Use those figures as filters, not as claims that one word is the intended answer.
Continue with 5-letter words with A–Z, return to the complete 5-letter word list, or compare words containing u across lengths 2–15.
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How many 5-letter words contain U?
This verified set contains 938 CORE words and 313 extended words, for 1251 total matches.
What is the average Scrabble score for this U group?
The 938 CORE words average 9.2 base Scrabble points. Board multipliers are not included.
Do these U words often repeat letters?
263 of 938 CORE words repeat at least one letter.