5 letter words with U in position 3

There are 681 five-letter words in English with U in position 3. 210 of them appear on the curated Wordle answer list, so they are the most likely candidates if you hit this pattern in today's puzzle. U is one of the most common letters in English, so almost every Wordle answer contains it somewhere.

Common words (210)

Words from the curated Wordle answer list — the most likely candidates for today’s solution.

  • gaudy
  • amuse
  • gauzy
  • stunt
  • truck
  • bouts
  • thumb
  • scull
  • rough
  • sauce
  • caulk
  • shuns
  • flues
  • adult
  • moult
  • blunt
  • hauls
  • flute
  • gauge
  • slung
  • boule
  • cruel
  • fours
  • south
  • plugs
  • clues
  • jaunt
  • clued
  • gaunt
  • blurt
  • studs
  • coups
  • louse
  • yours
  • snuck
  • saute
  • deuce
  • gouty
  • drums
  • routs
  • spurt
  • study
  • drugs
  • feuds
  • skulk
  • lousy
  • stuck
  • bound
  • snuff
  • tours
  • slush
  • sound
  • fruit
  • gauze
  • haute
  • squaw
  • crust
  • count
  • joust
  • squad
  • swung
  • slurp
  • crumb
  • gruff
  • skull
  • blues
  • fauns
  • round
  • pouty
  • fluid
  • inure
  • found
  • pluck
  • stump
  • slunk
  • usurp
  • prune
  • brunt
  • shuts
  • saucy
  • shunt
  • touch
  • bough
  • flung
  • glued
  • pause
  • vault
  • sough
  • stuff
  • flush
  • equal
  • trunk
  • souse
  • crump
  • drunk
  • bluer
  • prude
  • mound
  • rouge
  • churl
  • equip
  • slump
  • clung
  • druid
  • route
  • squib
  • plush
  • grubs
  • taunt
  • mouse
  • abuse
  • exult
  • shuck
  • chump
  • gourd
  • chums
  • court
  • plunk
  • stunk
  • cluck
  • clump
  • truer
  • flunk
  • truly
  • plume
  • stung
  • bruin
  • truth
  • tough
  • mauve
  • laugh
  • usual
  • pouch
  • vaunt
  • crush
  • flume
  • haunt
  • dough
  • bluff
  • chute
  • plums
  • cause
  • fault
  • youth
  • erupt
  • trust
  • trump
  • scuba
  • wound
  • house
  • daubs
  • plumb
  • fluke
  • mount
  • daunt
  • squat
  • would
  • mouth
  • brush
  • fount
  • acute
  • mourn
  • rouse
  • coupe
  • slugs
  • spurn
  • plump
  • skunk
  • hound
  • squid
  • fluff
  • spurs
  • cough
  • fauna
  • usury
  • couch
  • hours
  • doubt
  • crude
  • grunt
  • blurb
  • thump
  • slums
  • sauna
  • pours
  • reuse
  • wrung
  • chunk
  • could
  • vouch
  • young
  • elude
  • pound
  • azure
  • truss
  • etude
  • brute
  • clubs
  • truce
  • spunk

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Other valid words (471)

Five-letter words from the broader English dictionary the game accepts as guesses, but which rarely show up as answers.

  • abuna
  • abune
  • abuts
  • abuzz
  • acura
  • aduki
  • adunc
  • adust
  • agued
  • agues
  • aguna
  • aguti
  • ahull
  • ahuru
  • ajuga
  • alula
  • alums
  • alure
  • amuck
  • anura
  • aquae
  • aquas
  • aruba
  • aruhe
  • arums
  • asura
  • atuas
  • azuki
  • azurn
  • azury
  • bauds
  • bauer
  • bauks
  • baulk
  • baurs
  • bhuna
  • bhuts
  • blubs
  • blude
  • bluds
  • bludy
  • blued
  • bluet
  • bluey
  • bluid
  • blume
  • blunk
  • blurs
  • bouge
  • bouks
  • boult
  • bouns
  • bourd
  • bourg
  • bourn
  • bouse
  • bousy
  • bruce
  • brugh
  • bruit
  • brule
  • brume
  • brung
  • bruno
  • brusk
  • brust
  • bruts
  • cauda
  • cauks
  • cauld
  • cauls
  • caums
  • caups
  • cauri
  • causa
  • chubs
  • chufa
  • chuff
  • chugs
  • chung
  • churr
  • chuse
  • chuts
  • cluey
  • clunk
  • coude
  • courb
  • courd
  • coure
  • cours
  • couta
  • couth
  • cruck
  • crudo
  • cruds
  • crudy
  • crues
  • cruet
  • cruft
  • crunk
  • cruor
  • crura
  • cruse
  • crusy
  • cruve
  • daube
  • dauby
  • dauds
  • dault
  • daurs
  • dauts
  • dhuti
  • douar
  • douce
  • doucs
  • douks
  • doula
  • douma
  • doums
  • doups
  • doura
  • douse
  • douts
  • drubs
  • drupe
  • druse
  • drusy
  • druxy
  • educe
  • educt
  • elute
  • emule
  • emure
  • enure
  • enurn
  • eques
  • equid
  • eruct
  • erugo
  • eruvs
  • etuis
  • exude
  • exuls
  • exurb
  • faugh
  • fauld
  • faurd
  • fauts
  • fauve
  • feuar
  • feued
  • flubs
  • flued
  • fluey
  • fluky
  • flump
  • fluor
  • flurr
  • fluty
  • fluyt
  • fouat
  • fouds
  • fouer
  • fouet
  • foule
  • fouls
  • fouth
  • frugs
  • frump
  • frush
  • frust
  • gauch
  • gaucy
  • gauds
  • gauje
  • gault
  • gaums
  • gaumy
  • gaups
  • gaurs
  • gauss
  • geums
  • giust
  • gluer
  • glues
  • gluey
  • glugs
  • glume
  • glums
  • gluon
  • glute
  • gluts
  • gouch
  • gouks
  • gould
  • goura
  • gouts
  • grued
  • grues
  • grufe

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Most likely letters by position

For each slot, the letters that appear most often in these words. Color intensity reflects frequency.

Pos. 1
s19%
c10%
b8%
g7%
f6%
Pos. 2
o25%
a18%
l13%
r13%
h7%
Pos. 3
u100%
Pos. 4
r12%
n11%
l10%
t8%
s8%
Pos. 5
s27%
e16%
t9%
h7%
d6%

Most frequent letters overall

Useful for picking your next guess — frequent letters give you more information per try.

u
s
l
r
a
o
e
t
c
d

Vowels per word

How many vowels (A, E, I, O, U) these five-letter words contain.

1 vowel
182 (27%)
2 vowels
358 (53%)
3 vowels
138 (20%)
4 vowels
3 (0%)

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