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6-letter words with U as the 3rd letter

A curated list of 6-letter words tailored to this exact pattern. Use this when U is fixed in the 3rd slot; rotate high-frequency consonants elsewhere to prune fast. For example: abulia, abulic, abused.

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698 words

Word	Length	Syllables
abulia	6	3
abulic	6	3
abused	6	3
abuser	6	3
abuses	6	3
acuate	6	2
acuity	6	3
aculei	6	3
acumen	6	3
acuter	6	3
acutes	6	3
adults	6	2
aguish	6	2
ajugas	6	3
aludel	6	3
alulae	6	2
alular	6	3
alumin	6	3
alumna	6	3
alumni	6	3
amucks	6	2
amulet	6	3
amused	6	3
amuser	6	3
amuses	6	3
amusia	6	3
anural	6	3
anuran	6	3
anuria	6	3
anuric	6	3
anuses	6	3
aoudad	6	2
avulse	6	2
azures	6	3
baubee	6	1
bauble	6	1
baulks	6	1
baulky	6	2
bluely	6	2
bluest	6	1
bluesy	6	2
bluets	6	1
blueys	6	1
bluffs	6	1
bluing	6	1
bluish	6	1
blumed	6	2
blumes	6	2
blunge	6	1
blunts	6	1
blurbs	6	1
blurry	6	2
blurts	6	1
boubou	6	2
boucle	6	1
bouffe	6	1
boughs	6	1
bought	6	1
bougie	6	1
boules	6	2
boulle	6	1
bounce	6	1
bouncy	6	2
bounds	6	1
bounty	6	2
bourgs	6	1
bourne	6	1
bourns	6	1
bourse	6	1
boused	6	2
bouses	6	2
bouton	6	2
brucin	6	2
brughs	6	1
bruins	6	1
bruise	6	1
bruits	6	1
brulot	6	2
brumal	6	2
brumby	6	2
brumes	6	2
brunch	6	1
brunet	6	2
brunts	6	1
brushy	6	2
brutal	6	2
bruted	6	2
brutes	6	2
bruxed	6	2
caucus	6	2
caudad	6	2
caudal	6	2
caudex	6	2
caudle	6	1
caught	6	1
caulds	6	1
caules	6	2
caulis	6	2
caulks	6	1
causal	6	2
caused	6	2
causer	6	2
causes	6	2
causey	6	2
chubby	6	2
chucks	6	1
chucky	6	2
chufas	6	2
chuffs	6	1
chuffy	6	2
chukar	6	2
chukka	6	2
chummy	6	2
chumps	6	1
chunks	6	1
chunky	6	2
church	6	1
churls	6	1
churns	6	1
churro	6	2
churrs	6	1
chuted	6	2
chutes	6	2
clubby	6	2
clucks	6	1
cluing	6	1
clumps	6	1
clumpy	6	2
clumsy	6	2
clunks	6	1
clunky	6	2
clutch	6	1
cougar	6	2
coughs	6	1
coulee	6	1
coulis	6	2
counts	6	1
county	6	2
couped	6	2
coupes	6	2
couple	6	1
coupon	6	2
course	6	1
courts	6	1
cousin	6	2
couter	6	2
couths	6	1
cruces	6	2
crucks	6	1
cruddy	6	2
cruder	6	2
crudes	6	2
cruets	6	1
cruise	6	1
crumbs	6	1
crumby	6	2
crummy	6	2
crumps	6	1
crunch	6	1
cruors	6	1
crural	6	2
cruses	6	2
cruset	6	2
crusts	6	1
crusty	6	2
crutch	6	1
cruxes	6	2
daubed	6	2
dauber	6	2
daubes	6	2
daubry	6	2
daunts	6	1
dauted	6	2
dautie	6	1
deuced	6	2
deuces	6	2
dhurna	6	2
dhutis	6	2
diuron	6	2
double	6	1
doubly	6	2
doubts	6	1
douche	6	1
doughs	6	1
dought	6	1
doughy	6	2
doumas	6	2
dourah	6	2
douras	6	2
dourer	6	2
dourly	6	2
doused	6	2
douser	6	2
douses	6	2
drudge	6	1
druggy	6	2
druids	6	1
drumly	6	2
drunks	6	1
drupes	6	2
druses	6	2
educed	6	3
educes	6	3
educts	6	2
ekuele	6	2
eluant	6	2
eluate	6	2
eluded	6	3
eluder	6	3
eludes	6	3
eluent	6	2
eluted	6	3
elutes	6	3
eluvia	6	3
enured	6	3
enures	6	3
equals	6	2
equate	6	2
equids	6	2
equine	6	2
equips	6	2
equipt	6	2
equity	6	3
eructs	6	2
erugos	6	3
erupts	6	2
etudes	6	3
exuded	6	3
exudes	6	3
exults	6	2
exurbs	6	2
exuvia	6	3
faucal	6	2
fauces	6	2
faucet	6	2
faulds	6	1
faults	6	1
faulty	6	2
faunae	6	1
faunal	6	2
faunas	6	2
fauves	6	2
feuars	6	1
feudal	6	2
feuded	6	2
feuing	6	1
fluent	6	1
fluffs	6	1
fluffy	6	2
fluids	6	1
fluked	6	2
flukes	6	2
flukey	6	2
flumed	6	2
flumes	6	2
flumps	6	1
flunks	6	1
flunky	6	2
fluors	6	1
flurry	6	2
fluted	6	2
fluter	6	2
flutes	6	2
flutey	6	2
fluxed	6	2
fluxes	6	2
fluyts	6	1
fought	6	1
fouled	6	2
fouler	6	2
foully	6	2
founds	6	1
founts	6	1
fourth	6	1
frugal	6	2
fruits	6	1
fruity	6	2
frumps	6	1
frumpy	6	2
frusta	6	2
gauche	6	1
gaucho	6	2
gauged	6	2
gauger	6	2
gauges	6	2
gaults	6	1
gaumed	6	2
gauzes	6	2
glucan	6	2
gluers	6	1
gluier	6	1
gluily	6	2
gluing	6	1
glumes	6	2
glumly	6	2
glumpy	6	2
glunch	6	1
gluons	6	1
glutei	6	2
gluten	6	2
gouged	6	2
gouger	6	2
gouges	6	2
gourde	6	1
gourds	6	1
grubby	6	2
grudge	6	1
gruels	6	1
gruffs	6	1
gruffy	6	2
grugru	6	2
grumes	6	2
grumps	6	1
grumpy	6	2
grunge	6	1
grungy	6	2
grunts	6	1
grutch	6	1
haughs	6	1
hauled	6	2
hauler	6	2
haulms	6	1
haulmy	6	2
haunch	6	1
haunts	6	1
hausen	6	2
heuchs	6	1
heughs	6	1
houdah	6	2
hounds	6	1
houris	6	2
hourly	6	2
housed	6	2
housel	6	2
houser	6	2
houses	6	2
iguana	6	3
inulin	6	3
inured	6	3
inures	6	3
inurns	6	2
jauked	6	2
jaunce	6	1
jaunts	6	1
jaunty	6	2
jauped	6	2
jouals	6	1
jouked	6	2
joules	6	2
jounce	6	1
jouncy	6	2
journo	6	2
jousts	6	1
kauris	6	2
kludge	6	1
kluges	6	2
klutzy	6	2
knubby	6	2
knurls	6	1
knurly	6	2
koumis	6	2
koumys	6	2
kouroi	6	2
kouros	6	2
kousso	6	2
krubis	6	2
krubut	6	2
lauans	6	1
lauded	6	2
lauder	6	2
laughs	6	1
launce	6	1
launch	6	1
laurae	6	1
lauras	6	2
laurel	6	2
leucin	6	2
leudes	6	2
leukon	6	2
louche	6	1
louden	6	2
louder	6	2
loudly	6	2
loughs	6	1
louies	6	1
lounge	6	1
loungy	6	2
louped	6	2
loupen	6	2
loupes	6	2
loured	6	2
loused	6	2
louses	6	2
louted	6	2
louver	6	2
louvre	6	1
mauger	6	2
maugre	6	1
mauled	6	2
mauler	6	2
maumet	6	2
maunds	6	1
maundy	6	2
mauves	6	2
moujik	6	2
moulds	6	1
mouldy	6	2
moulin	6	2
moults	6	1
mounds	6	1
mounts	6	1
mourns	6	1
moused	6	2
mouser	6	2
mouses	6	2
mousey	6	2
mousse	6	1
mouths	6	1
mouthy	6	2
mouton	6	2
muumuu	6	2
naught	6	1
nausea	6	2
nautch	6	1
neumes	6	2
neumic	6	2
neural	6	2
neuron	6	2
neuter	6	2
nougat	6	2
nought	6	1
nounal	6	2
nouses	6	2
ocular	6	3
oculus	6	3
oeuvre	6	1
onuses	6	3
opuses	6	3
ovular	6	3
ovules	6	3
paulin	6	2
paunch	6	1
pauper	6	2
pausal	6	2
paused	6	2
pauser	6	2
pauses	6	2
plucks	6	1
plucky	6	2
plumbs	6	1
plumed	6	2
plumes	6	2
plummy	6	2
plumps	6	1
plunge	6	1
plunks	6	1
plural	6	2
pluses	6	2
plushy	6	2
plutei	6	2
pluton	6	2
pouchy	6	2
poufed	6	2
pouffe	6	1
pouffs	6	1
poults	6	1
pounce	6	1
pounds	6	1
poured	6	2
pourer	6	2
pouted	6	2
pouter	6	2
prudes	6	2
pruned	6	2
pruner	6	2
prunes	6	2
prunus	6	2
prutah	6	2
prutot	6	2
pyuria	6	2
raunch	6	1
reused	6	2
reuses	6	2
rhumba	6	2
rhumbs	6	1
rhuses	6	2
rouble	6	1
rouche	6	1
rouens	6	1
rouged	6	2
rouges	6	2
roughs	6	1
roughy	6	2
rounds	6	1
rouped	6	2
roupet	6	2
roused	6	2
rouser	6	2
rouses	6	2
rousts	6	1
routed	6	2
router	6	2
routes	6	2
rouths	6	1
sauced	6	2
saucer	6	2
sauces	6	2
sauchs	6	1
sauger	6	2
saughs	6	1
saughy	6	2
saults	6	1
saunas	6	2
saurel	6	2
sauted	6	2
sautes	6	2
scubas	6	2
scuffs	6	1
sculks	6	1
sculls	6	1
sculps	6	1
sculpt	6	1
scummy	6	2
scurfs	6	1
scurfy	6	2
scurry	6	2
scurvy	6	2
scutch	6	1
scutes	6	2
scutum	6	2
scuzzy	6	2
shucks	6	1
shunts	6	1
shuted	6	2
shutes	6	2
skulks	6	1
skulls	6	1
skunks	6	1
sludge	6	1
sludgy	6	2
sluffs	6	1
sluice	6	1
sluicy	6	2
sluing	6	1
slummy	6	2
slumps	6	1
slurbs	6	1
slurps	6	1
slurry	6	2
slushy	6	2
smudge	6	1
smudgy	6	2
smugly	6	2
smutch	6	1
smutty	6	2
snubby	6	2
snuffs	6	1
snuffy	6	2
snugly	6	2
souari	6	2
soucar	6	2
soudan	6	2
soughs	6	1
sought	6	1
souled	6	2
sounds	6	1
souped	6	2
source	6	1
soured	6	2
sourer	6	2
sourly	6	2
soused	6	2
souses	6	2
souter	6	2
souths	6	1
spuing	6	1
spumed	6	2
spumes	6	2
spunks	6	1
spunky	6	2
spurge	6	1
spurns	6	1
spurry	6	2
spurts	6	1
sputum	6	2
squabs	6	1
squads	6	1
squall	6	1
squama	6	2
square	6	1
squash	6	1
squats	6	1
squawk	6	1
squaws	6	1
squeak	6	1
squeal	6	1
squegs	6	1
squibs	6	1
squids	6	1
squill	6	1
squint	6	1
squire	6	1
squirm	6	1
squirt	6	1
squish	6	1
squush	6	1
stubby	6	2
stucco	6	2
studio	6	2
studly	6	2
stuffs	6	1
stuffy	6	2
stulls	6	1
stumps	6	1
stumpy	6	2
stunts	6	1
stupas	6	2
stupes	6	2
stupid	6	2
stupor	6	2
sturdy	6	2
sturts	6	1
taught	6	1
taunts	6	1
taupes	6	2
tauted	6	2
tauten	6	2
tauter	6	2
tautly	6	2
tautog	6	2
thujas	6	2
thulia	6	2
thumbs	6	1
thumps	6	1
thunks	6	1
thurls	6	1
thusly	6	2
thuyas	6	1
toucan	6	2
touche	6	1
touchy	6	2
toughs	6	1
toughy	6	2
toupee	6	1
toured	6	2
tourer	6	2
toused	6	2
touses	6	2
tousle	6	1
touted	6	2
touter	6	2
touzle	6	1
truant	6	1
truced	6	2
truces	6	2
trucks	6	1
trudge	6	1
truest	6	1
truffe	6	1
truing	6	1
truism	6	1
trulls	6	1
trumps	6	1
trunks	6	1
trusts	6	1
trusty	6	2
truths	6	1
tsuris	6	2
tzuris	6	2
unused	6	3
uruses	6	3
usuals	6	2
usurer	6	3
usurps	6	2
uvulae	6	2
uvular	6	3
uvulas	6	3
vaults	6	1
vaulty	6	2
vaunts	6	1
vaunty	6	2
waucht	6	1
waught	6	1
wauked	6	2
wauled	6	2
whumps	6	1
wounds	6	1
yauped	6	2
yauper	6	2
yaupon	6	2
yautia	6	2
yeuked	6	2
youngs	6	1
youpon	6	2
youths	6	1
zeugma	6	2
zouave	6	1
zounds	6	1

FAQs

How do I play around a fixed U in the 3rd slot?
Try mixing common consonant clusters (ST, TR, CH) in other positions while keeping U locked.

Why are uncommon words included?
We compile from a broad English list. Skim the top rows for more common picks.