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8-letter words with U as the 5th letter

A curated list of 8-letter words tailored to this exact pattern. Use this when U is fixed in the 5th slot; rotate high-frequency consonants elsewhere to prune fast. For example: abacuses, accounts, accouter.

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987 words

Word	Length	Syllables
abacuses	8	4
accounts	8	2
accouter	8	3
accoutre	8	2
accruals	8	2
accruing	8	2
acequias	8	3
aciculae	8	3
acicular	8	4
aciculas	8	4
aciculum	8	4
aciduria	8	4
adequacy	8	4
adequate	8	3
adjourns	8	2
affluent	8	2
affluxes	8	3
aimfully	8	3
airburst	8	2
airbuses	8	3
alarumed	8	4
aliquant	8	3
aliquots	8	3
altruism	8	2
altruist	8	2
ampoules	8	3
anchusas	8	3
anchusin	8	3
animuses	8	4
announce	8	2
anovular	8	4
apiculus	8	4
apolunes	8	4
arboured	8	3
armoured	8	3
armourer	8	3
artfully	8	3
arugulas	8	4
assaults	8	2
astounds	8	2
avicular	8	4
azimuths	8	3
azoturia	8	4
ballutes	8	3
banausic	8	3
banquets	8	2
barbules	8	3
barguest	8	2
barouche	8	2
bascules	8	3
becrusts	8	2
bedaubed	8	3
bedouins	8	2
bedquilt	8	2
befouled	8	3
befouler	8	3
begrudge	8	2
belauded	8	3
bermudas	8	3
berouged	8	3
besmudge	8	2
besought	8	2
bethumps	8	2
bicaudal	8	3
bihourly	8	3
binaural	8	3
biovular	8	3
biscuits	8	2
bismuths	8	2
bivouacs	8	2
bordures	8	3
boroughs	8	2
bosquets	8	2
bouquets	8	2
bravuras	8	3
briquets	8	2
broguery	8	3
broguish	8	2
burgundy	8	3
byssuses	8	3
cachucha	8	3
cactuses	8	3
caesurae	8	2
caesural	8	3
caesuras	8	3
caesuric	8	3
calculus	8	3
callused	8	3
calluses	8	3
calquing	8	2
campused	8	3
campuses	8	3
cannulae	8	2
cannular	8	3
cannulas	8	3
capsular	8	3
capsuled	8	3
capsules	8	3
captured	8	3
capturer	8	3
captures	8	3
carburet	8	3
carousal	8	3
caroused	8	3
carousel	8	3
carouser	8	3
carouses	8	3
caucused	8	3
caucuses	8	3
cellular	8	3
cellules	8	3
censured	8	3
censurer	8	3
censures	8	3
censused	8	3
censuses	8	3
centuple	8	2
cereuses	8	3
cernuous	8	2
cestuses	8	3
chaqueta	8	3
chasuble	8	2
chemurgy	8	3
chequers	8	2
cherubic	8	3
cherubim	8	3
chiauses	8	2
chorused	8	3
choruses	8	3
ciboules	8	3
cingulum	8	3
cinquain	8	2
circuits	8	2
circuity	8	3
circular	8	3
circuses	8	3
cislunar	8	3
cistuses	8	3
citruses	8	3
claquers	8	2
claqueur	8	2
cliquier	8	2
cliquing	8	2
cliquish	8	2
clonuses	8	3
closured	8	3
closures	8	3
clotured	8	3
clotures	8	3
coagulum	8	3
coenures	8	3
coenurus	8	3
coequals	8	2
coequate	8	2
cofounds	8	2
coituses	8	3
coleuses	8	3
colluded	8	3
colluder	8	3
colludes	8	3
colluvia	8	3
coloured	8	3
colourer	8	3
combusts	8	2
communal	8	3
communed	8	3
communes	8	3
commuted	8	3
commuter	8	3
commutes	8	3
computed	8	3
computer	8	3
computes	8	3
conduced	8	3
conducer	8	3
conduces	8	3
conducts	8	2
conduits	8	2
confused	8	3
confuses	8	3
confuted	8	3
confuter	8	3
confutes	8	3
conjugal	8	3
conjunct	8	2
conjured	8	3
conjurer	8	3
conjures	8	3
conjuror	8	3
conquers	8	2
conquest	8	2
conquian	8	2
consular	8	3
consults	8	2
consumed	8	3
consumer	8	3
consumes	8	3
contused	8	3
contuses	8	3
convulse	8	2
corduroy	8	3
cornuses	8	3
cornuted	8	3
cornutos	8	3
corrupts	8	2
costumed	8	3
costumer	8	3
costumes	8	3
costumey	8	3
cothurni	8	3
cothurns	8	2
cotquean	8	2
coutures	8	3
crocuses	8	3
croquets	8	2
cultural	8	3
cultured	8	3
cultures	8	3
cultuses	8	3
cumquats	8	2
curculio	8	3
curcumas	8	3
cuscuses	8	3
custumal	8	3
cutpurse	8	2
cypruses	8	3
daiquiri	8	3
dasyures	8	3
debouche	8	2
debruise	8	2
decouple	8	2
defaults	8	2
dejeuner	8	3
deloused	8	3
delouser	8	3
delouses	8	3
demiurge	8	2
demounts	8	2
denounce	8	2
dentural	8	3
dentures	8	3
deplumed	8	3
deplumes	8	3
detoured	8	3
detruded	8	3
detrudes	8	3
devoured	8	3
devourer	8	3
devouter	8	3
devoutly	8	3
dibbukim	8	3
diffused	8	3
diffuser	8	3
diffuses	8	3
diffusor	8	3
dinguses	8	3
disburse	8	2
discuses	8	3
diseuses	8	3
disguise	8	2
disgusts	8	2
disjunct	8	2
disputed	8	3
disputer	8	3
disputes	8	3
disquiet	8	2
disrupts	8	2
dissuade	8	2
disturbs	8	2
doofuses	8	3
ductules	8	3
dybbukim	8	3
earmuffs	8	2
effluent	8	2
effluvia	8	3
effluxes	8	3
eloquent	8	3
embruing	8	2
embruted	8	3
embrutes	8	3
encrusts	8	2
ensouled	8	3
enthused	8	3
enthuses	8	3
entrusts	8	2
epicures	8	4
epidural	8	4
erasures	8	4
eremurus	8	4
espousal	8	3
espoused	8	3
espouser	8	3
espouses	8	3
estruses	8	3
euphuism	8	2
euphuist	8	2
evacuant	8	3
evacuate	8	3
evacuees	8	3
evaluate	8	3
evolutes	8	4
excluded	8	3
excluder	8	3
excludes	8	3
executed	8	4
executer	8	4
executes	8	4
executor	8	4
exequial	8	3
exequies	8	3
exhausts	8	2
exiguity	8	4
exiguous	8	3
exoduses	8	4
exonumia	8	4
expounds	8	2
extruded	8	3
extruder	8	3
extrudes	8	3
factures	8	3
failures	8	3
famously	8	3
farouche	8	2
fastuous	8	2
favoured	8	3
favourer	8	3
featured	8	3
features	8	3
ferruled	8	3
ferrules	8	3
fissured	8	3
fissures	8	3
fistulae	8	2
fistular	8	3
fistulas	8	3
fitfully	8	3
fixtures	8	3
flatuses	8	3
flexuose	8	2
flexuous	8	2
flexural	8	3
flexures	8	3
floruits	8	2
foetuses	8	3
forjudge	8	2
formulae	8	2
formulas	8	3
fortuity	8	3
fortuned	8	3
fortunes	8	3
foxhunts	8	2
frenulum	8	3
frequent	8	2
funguses	8	3
furculae	8	2
furcular	8	3
furculum	8	3
furfural	8	3
furfuran	8	3
furfures	8	3
gallused	8	3
galluses	8	3
gambusia	8	3
gemmules	8	3
geniuses	8	3
geoducks	8	2
gestural	8	3
gestured	8	3
gesturer	8	3
gestures	8	3
globular	8	3
globules	8	3
globulin	8	3
goldurns	8	2
graduals	8	2
graduand	8	2
graduate	8	2
graduses	8	3
granular	8	3
granules	8	3
gratuity	8	3
gravures	8	3
guayules	8	2
guipures	8	3
guttural	8	3
gweducks	8	2
gyplures	8	3
hachured	8	3
hachures	8	3
halluces	8	3
hamburgs	8	2
harrumph	8	2
hercules	8	3
hereunto	8	3
hereupon	8	3
hiatuses	8	3
hiccuped	8	3
homburgs	8	2
honoured	8	3
honourer	8	3
hummuses	8	3
humoured	8	3
iambuses	8	3
imbruing	8	2
imbruted	8	3
imbrutes	8	3
impounds	8	2
inbounds	8	2
included	8	3
includes	8	3
incrusts	8	2
inequity	8	4
infaunae	8	2
infaunal	8	3
infaunas	8	3
influent	8	2
influxes	8	3
infought	8	2
infrugal	8	3
inhauler	8	3
iniquity	8	4
inoculum	8	4
inpoured	8	3
insculps	8	2
insouled	8	3
intruded	8	3
intruder	8	3
intrudes	8	3
intrusts	8	2
irefully	8	4
jacquard	8	2
jalousie	8	2
jiujutsu	8	3
jonquils	8	2
joyfully	8	3
joyously	8	2
jumbucks	8	2
kebbucks	8	2
keypunch	8	2
kumquats	8	2
laboured	8	3
labourer	8	3
labrusca	8	3
lacquers	8	2
lacqueys	8	2
language	8	2
languets	8	2
languish	8	2
languors	8	2
larruped	8	3
larruper	8	3
lawfully	8	3
lawsuits	8	2
leaguers	8	2
leaguing	8	2
lectured	8	3
lecturer	8	3
lectures	8	3
leisured	8	3
leisures	8	3
lettuces	8	3
limbuses	8	3
linguals	8	2
linguine	8	2
linguini	8	3
linguist	8	2
litmuses	8	3
longueur	8	2
macrural	8	3
macruran	8	3
maieutic	8	2
maneuver	8	3
manfully	8	3
manhunts	8	2
marauded	8	3
marauder	8	3
marquees	8	2
marquess	8	2
marquise	8	2
marsupia	8	3
masquers	8	2
mazourka	8	3
measured	8	3
measurer	8	3
measures	8	3
meatuses	8	3
mensural	8	3
mercuric	8	3
meshugah	8	3
meshugga	8	3
meshugge	8	2
mesquite	8	2
mesquits	8	2
messuage	8	2
mezquite	8	2
mezquits	8	2
miaouing	8	1
micrurgy	8	3
midcults	8	2
misbuild	8	2
misbuilt	8	2
miscuing	8	2
misguess	8	2
misguide	8	2
misjudge	8	2
misquote	8	2
misruled	8	3
misrules	8	3
missuits	8	2
missuses	8	3
mistuned	8	3
mistunes	8	3
mistutor	8	3
mixtures	8	3
molluscs	8	2
mollusks	8	2
monaural	8	3
mortuary	8	3
mosquito	8	3
mudguard	8	2
mudpuppy	8	3
mugwumps	8	2
multures	8	3
mundungo	8	3
murmured	8	3
murmurer	8	3
muscular	8	3
musquash	8	2
nervules	8	3
nervures	8	3
netsukes	8	3
neurulae	8	2
neurulas	8	3
nimbused	8	3
nimbuses	8	3
noctuids	8	2
noctules	8	3
noctuoid	8	2
nocturne	8	2
nocturns	8	2
nonguest	8	2
nonguilt	8	2
nonhuman	8	3
nonjuror	8	3
nonmusic	8	3
nonquota	8	3
nonrural	8	3
nonsugar	8	3
nonsuits	8	2
notturni	8	3
notturno	8	3
nummular	8	3
nurtural	8	3
nurtured	8	3
nurturer	8	3
nurtures	8	3
obituary	8	4
obscured	8	3
obscurer	8	3
obscures	8	3
obtruded	8	3
obtruder	8	3
obtrudes	8	3
occluded	8	3
occludes	8	3
occlusal	8	3
odiously	8	3
oliguria	8	4
opaquely	8	4
opaquest	8	3
opaquing	8	3
oracular	8	4
outbuild	8	2
outbuilt	8	2
outbulks	8	2
outbully	8	3
outburns	8	2
outburnt	8	2
outburst	8	2
outcurse	8	2
outcurve	8	2
outduels	8	2
outguess	8	2
outguide	8	2
outhumor	8	3
outhunts	8	2
outjumps	8	2
outpulls	8	2
outpunch	8	2
outquote	8	2
outsulks	8	2
outturns	8	2
overurge	8	3
overused	8	4
overuses	8	4
oviducal	8	4
oviducts	8	3
pachucos	8	3
panduras	8	3
panhuman	8	3
parquets	8	2
pasquils	8	2
passuses	8	3
pastural	8	3
pastured	8	3
pasturer	8	3
pastures	8	3
pellucid	8	3
pendular	8	3
pendulum	8	3
penguins	8	2
peplumed	8	3
pepluses	8	3
perdured	8	3
perdures	8	3
perfumed	8	3
perfumer	8	3
perfumes	8	3
perfused	8	3
perfuses	8	3
perjured	8	3
perjurer	8	3
perjures	8	3
permuted	8	3
permutes	8	3
persuade	8	2
perturbs	8	2
piacular	8	3
picquets	8	2
pictured	8	3
pictures	8	3
pinnulae	8	2
pinnular	8	3
pinnules	8	3
plaguers	8	2
plaguily	8	3
plaguing	8	2
planulae	8	2
planular	8	3
plexuses	8	3
plugugly	8	3
plumular	8	3
plumules	8	3
polluted	8	3
polluter	8	3
pollutes	8	3
polyuria	8	3
polyuric	8	3
porously	8	3
postural	8	3
postured	8	3
posturer	8	3
postures	8	3
potlucks	8	2
preaudit	8	2
precured	8	3
precures	8	3
predusks	8	2
prehuman	8	3
prejudge	8	2
preluded	8	3
preluder	8	3
preludes	8	3
prelunch	8	2
prepuces	8	3
prepunch	8	2
prepupal	8	3
prequels	8	2
presumed	8	3
presumer	8	3
presumes	8	3
prevuing	8	2
primulas	8	3
primuses	8	3
procural	8	3
procured	8	3
procurer	8	3
procures	8	3
produced	8	3
producer	8	3
produces	8	3
products	8	2
promulge	8	2
prunuses	8	3
purpuras	8	3
purpures	8	3
purpuric	8	3
purpurin	8	3
pursuant	8	2
pursuers	8	2
pursuing	8	2
pursuits	8	2
pustular	8	3
pustuled	8	3
pustules	8	3
racquets	8	2
radiuses	8	3
ragouted	8	3
rambutan	8	3
raptured	8	3
raptures	8	3
rebought	8	2
rebounds	8	2
recluses	8	3
recounts	8	2
recouped	8	3
recouple	8	2
recourse	8	2
recruits	8	2
redouble	8	2
redoubts	8	2
redounds	8	2
reequips	8	2
refluent	8	2
refluxed	8	3
refluxes	8	3
refought	8	2
refounds	8	2
regauged	8	3
regauges	8	3
regluing	8	2
rehoused	8	3
rehouses	8	3
relaunch	8	2
remounts	8	2
renounce	8	2
replumbs	8	2
replunge	8	2
repoured	8	3
repousse	8	2
rerouted	8	3
reroutes	8	3
rescuers	8	2
rescuing	8	2
resculpt	8	2
resought	8	2
resounds	8	2
resource	8	2
restuffs	8	2
retaught	8	2
rhesuses	8	3
rictuses	8	3
rigaudon	8	3
roebucks	8	2
romaunts	8	2
rondures	8	3
rorquals	8	2
ruckuses	8	3
ruefully	8	3
rumoured	8	3
rumpuses	8	3
ruptured	8	3
ruptures	8	3
saccular	8	3
saccules	8	3
sacculus	8	3
sambucas	8	3
sambukes	8	3
sanguine	8	2
satsumas	8	3
savoured	8	3
savourer	8	3
sawbucks	8	2
sawdusts	8	2
saxtubas	8	3
scapulae	8	2
scapular	8	3
scapulas	8	3
schlumps	8	1
schmucks	8	1
scopulae	8	2
scopulas	8	3
scrouged	8	2
scrouges	8	2
scrounge	8	1
scroungy	8	2
seagulls	8	2
seaquake	8	2
secluded	8	3
secludes	8	3
seisures	8	3
seizures	8	3
sensuous	8	2
seppukus	8	3
septuple	8	2
sevrugas	8	3
sextuple	8	2
sextuply	8	3
shamuses	8	3
shogunal	8	3
shrouded	8	2
siddurim	8	3
sinfully	8	3
singular	8	3
snafuing	8	2
soilures	8	3
sojourns	8	2
spatular	8	3
spatulas	8	3
specular	8	3
speculum	8	3
spelunks	8	2
spiculae	8	2
spicular	8	3
spicules	8	3
spiculum	8	3
spinulae	8	2
spinules	8	3
spirulae	8	2
spirulas	8	3
sporular	8	3
sporules	8	3
sprouted	8	2
statuary	8	3
statures	8	3
statuses	8	3
statutes	8	3
stimulus	8	3
stipular	8	3
stipuled	8	3
stipules	8	3
streusel	8	2
styluses	8	3
subcults	8	2
subcutes	8	3
subcutis	8	3
subduals	8	2
subduced	8	3
subduces	8	3
subducts	8	2
subduers	8	2
subduing	8	2
subdural	8	3
subhuman	8	3
subhumid	8	3
sublunar	8	3
subpubic	8	3
subrules	8	3
subsumed	8	3
subsumes	8	3
subtunic	8	3
succubae	8	2
succubus	8	3
succumbs	8	2
suffused	8	3
suffuses	8	3
sulfured	8	3
sulfuret	8	3
sulfuric	8	3
sulfuryl	8	3
sunburns	8	2
sunburnt	8	2
sunburst	8	2
sunsuits	8	2
synfuels	8	2
taboulis	8	3
taboured	8	3
tabourer	8	3
tabouret	8	3
talmudic	8	3
tamburas	8	3
tartufes	8	3
tartuffe	8	2
tatouays	8	2
telluric	8	3
tempuras	8	3
testudos	8	3
textuary	8	3
textural	8	3
textured	8	3
textures	8	3
thiourea	8	2
thymuses	8	3
tissuing	8	2
tissular	8	3
tittuped	8	3
tittuppy	8	3
tonguing	8	2
tonsured	8	3
tonsures	8	3
toreutic	8	3
torquate	8	2
torquers	8	2
torquing	8	2
tortuous	8	2
tortured	8	3
torturer	8	3
tortures	8	3
traduced	8	3
traducer	8	3
traduces	8	3
trapunto	8	3
tribunal	8	3
tribunes	8	3
tributes	8	3
triduums	8	2
turquois	8	2
tussucks	8	2
typhuses	8	3
ubiquity	8	4
umlauted	8	3
unabused	8	4
unamused	8	4
unbought	8	2
unbouncy	8	3
uncaught	8	2
uncaused	8	3
unchurch	8	2
uncouple	8	2
unctuous	8	2
undouble	8	2
unequals	8	3
unfought	8	2
ungluing	8	2
unhoused	8	3
unhouses	8	3
uniquely	8	4
uniquest	8	3
unpruned	8	3
unrounds	8	2
unsought	8	2
unsoured	8	3
unstuffy	8	3
untaught	8	2
untruest	8	2
untrusty	8	3
untruths	8	2
upchucks	8	2
uproused	8	3
uprouses	8	3
uraeuses	8	3
usefully	8	4
uteruses	8	4
vacuumed	8	3
valguses	8	3
valvulae	8	2
valvular	8	3
valvules	8	3
vanguard	8	2
vanquish	8	2
vapoured	8	3
vapourer	8	3
vascular	8	3
vasculum	8	3
veinules	8	3
veinulet	8	3
veloutes	8	3
venously	8	3
ventured	8	3
venturer	8	3
ventures	8	3
venturis	8	3
verdured	8	3
verdures	8	3
verjuice	8	2
vermuths	8	2
verrucae	8	2
vestural	8	3
vestured	8	3
vestures	8	3
viaducts	8	2
victuals	8	2
vinculum	8	3
vinously	8	3
virgules	8	3
virtuosa	8	3
virtuose	8	2
virtuosi	8	3
virtuoso	8	3
virtuous	8	2
volvulus	8	3
vulguses	8	3
vultures	8	3
waesucks	8	2
waftures	8	3
walruses	8	3
wammuses	8	3
wampuses	8	3
wetsuits	8	2
whodunit	8	3
wilfully	8	3
woefully	8	3
yarmulke	8	2
yoghurts	8	2
zarzuela	8	3
ziggurat	8	3
zikkurat	8	3

FAQs

How do I play around a fixed U in the 5th 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.