5-Letter Words Ending in U
There are 25 five-letter words ending in U in our dictionary; 9 of them are common words.
Type your own letters to find only the 5-letter words you can make, or leave it empty to open this list in the word finder.
All 25 words
- bayou10 points
- snafu8 points
- kudzu19 points
- haiku12 points
- adieu6 points
- bijou14 points
- coypu12 points
- sadhu9 points
- fichu13 points
- hokku16 points
- quipu16 points
- perdu8 points
- vertu8 points
- virtu8 points
- cornu7 points
- pareu7 points
- poilu7 points
- sajou12 points
- shoyu11 points
- poyou10 points
- prahu10 points
- fondu9 points
- battu7 points
- miaou7 points
- pilau7 points
Quick facts
- Total words: 25
- By usage: 1 very common, 8 common, 16 rare
Highest scoring (classic tiles)
- kudzu 19
- hokku 16
- quipu 16
- bijou 14
- fichu 13
- coypu 12
- haiku 12
- sajou 12
- shoyu 11
- bayou 10
Most common
- bayou
- snafu
- kudzu
- haiku
- adieu
- bijou
- coypu
- sadhu
- fichu
- hokku
Definitions
- bayou (noun)
- A swampy arm or slow-moving outlet of a lake (term used mainly in Mississippi and Louisiana).
- snafu (adjective)
- Snarled or stalled in complete confusion.
- kudzu (noun)
- Fast-growing vine from eastern Asia having tuberous starchy roots and hairy trifoliate leaves and racemes of purple flowers followed by long hairy pods containing many seeds; grown for fodder and forage and root starch; widespread in the southern United States.
- haiku (noun)
- An epigrammatic Japanese verse form of three short lines.
There are 25 five-letter words ending in U, and 9 of them are words you would expect to see in everyday writing. The rest are technical terms, plurals, variant spellings and the odd loanword, all of which are legal in most tile games. The highest-scoring entry is KUDZU at 19 points. Scan the common words first, then dip into the rare ones when the board leaves you no other option.
How to use this page
Read the list from the top if you want the everyday words, or jump to the quick facts for the highest scorers. Click any word with a link to see every shorter word hidden inside it. When you have a specific rack, the search box at the top filters the list down to the words you can play right now.
Tips
A balanced rack has roughly three vowels and four consonants, and a lopsided rack is the most common reason players get stuck. If you are drowning in vowels, look for the words on this page with the most vowels and use them to reset. If you have too many consonants, a word with a single vowel will do the same job. When you cannot find a decent play, it is often better to swap tiles or play a short word that dumps the surplus than to force a poor score and keep the bad rack.
Questions
How many five-letter words ending in U are there?
Our dictionary has 25 five-letter words ending in U, of which 9 are common English words. The count comes from the public-domain ENABLE list, so it can differ slightly from the dictionary a particular game uses.
What is the highest-scoring word among the five-letter words ending in U?
KUDZU scores 19 points with classic tile values, ignoring board multipliers. The full top ten is in the quick facts above; switch the tile set on the search tool if you play with different letter values.