5 letter words ending with U

25 words

There are 25 5-letter words ending with U in the ENABLE dictionary — under 1% of all 8,636 words at this length. U is a one-point tile and the bag holds a lot of them, so these words are less about scoring than about shape: they are what clears a vowel-heavy rack, and in a daily guessing game they are how you test a vowel you have not placed yet.

The list divides into 11 groups by first letter, the largest being the 6 words with p…u. Scanning the right group is faster than reading the whole list, which is why it is broken up below rather than run alphabetically.

If you know more than one letter, this page stops being the fast way to find it. Enter what you have in the unscrambler — the Contains, Starts with and Ends with filters combine, and setting both length fields to 5 narrows this list to the handful your letters actually allow.

All 25 words, by first letter

A…U (1)

adieu

B…U (3)

battu bayou bijou

C…U (2)

cornu coypu

F…U (2)

fichu fondu

H…U (2)

haiku hokku

K…U (1)

kudzu

M…U (1)

miaou

P…U (6)

pareu perdu pilau poilu poyou prahu

Q…U (1)

quipu

S…U (4)

sadhu sajou shoyu snafu

V…U (2)

vertu virtu