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9-letter words with U as the 5th letter

A curated list of 9-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: accounted, accouters, accoutred.

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867 words

Word	Length	Syllables
accounted	9	3
accouters	9	3
accoutred	9	3
accoutres	9	3
accruable	9	2
aciculums	9	4
acidulate	9	4
acidulent	9	4
acidulous	9	4
acidurias	9	4
adjourned	9	3
affluence	9	2
affluency	9	3
affluents	9	2
airbursts	9	2
airbusses	9	3
alaruming	9	4
altruisms	9	2
altruists	9	2
anchusins	9	3
andouille	9	2
announced	9	3
announcer	9	3
announces	9	3
anthurium	9	3
antiulcer	9	3
antiunion	9	3
antiurban	9	3
apiculate	9	4
armourers	9	3
armouries	9	3
armouring	9	3
asexually	9	4
assaulted	9	3
assaulter	9	3
astounded	9	3
auteurist	9	3
avirulent	9	4
ayahuasca	9	3
azimuthal	9	4
azoturias	9	4
banqueted	9	3
banqueter	9	3
banquette	9	2
barguests	9	2
barouches	9	3
barquette	9	2
becrusted	9	3
bedaubing	9	3
bedquilts	9	2
bedrugged	9	3
befoulers	9	3
befouling	9	3
begrudged	9	3
begrudges	9	3
belauding	9	3
besmudged	9	3
besmudges	9	3
besmutted	9	3
bestudded	9	3
bethumped	9	3
bismuthic	9	3
bivouacks	9	2
briquette	9	2
bulrushes	9	3
cachuchas	9	3
calculate	9	3
calculous	9	3
callusing	9	3
campusing	9	3
capouches	9	3
capsuling	9	3
capsulize	9	3
capturers	9	3
capturing	9	3
carbuncle	9	2
carburets	9	3
carburise	9	3
carburize	9	3
carousals	9	3
carousels	9	3
carousers	9	3
carousing	9	3
cartulary	9	4
caucusing	9	3
caucussed	9	3
caucusses	9	3
cellulase	9	3
cellulite	9	3
celluloid	9	3
cellulose	9	3
censurers	9	3
censuring	9	3
censusing	9	3
centupled	9	3
centuples	9	3
centuries	9	3
centurion	9	3
chalutzim	9	3
chaquetas	9	3
chasubles	9	3
chequered	9	3
cherubims	9	3
chihuahua	9	3
chorusing	9	3
chorussed	9	3
chorusses	9	3
cingulate	9	3
cinquains	9	2
circuital	9	3
circuited	9	3
circuitry	9	3
circulars	9	3
circulate	9	3
claqueurs	9	2
cliquiest	9	2
closuring	9	3
cloturing	9	3
coagulant	9	3
coagulase	9	3
coagulate	9	3
coagulums	9	3
cocounsel	9	3
coequally	9	3
coequated	9	3
coequates	9	3
cofounded	9	3
cofounder	9	3
colluders	9	3
colluding	9	3
collusion	9	3
collusive	9	3
colluvial	9	3
colluvium	9	3
colourers	9	3
colouring	9	3
combusted	9	3
combustor	9	3
communard	9	3
communing	9	3
communion	9	3
communise	9	3
communism	9	3
communist	9	3
community	9	4
communize	9	3
commutate	9	3
commuters	9	3
commuting	9	3
computers	9	3
computing	9	3
concubine	9	3
concurred	9	3
concussed	9	3
concusses	9	3
conducers	9	3
conducing	9	3
conducive	9	3
conducted	9	3
conductor	9	3
confusing	9	3
confusion	9	3
confuters	9	3
confuting	9	3
conjugant	9	3
conjugate	9	3
conjuncts	9	2
conjurers	9	3
conjuring	9	3
conjurors	9	3
connubial	9	3
conquered	9	3
conqueror	9	3
conquests	9	2
conquians	9	2
consulate	9	3
consulted	9	3
consulter	9	3
consultor	9	3
consumers	9	3
consuming	9	3
contumacy	9	4
contumely	9	4
contusing	9	3
contusion	9	3
convulsed	9	3
convulses	9	3
corduroys	9	3
corpulent	9	3
corpuscle	9	2
corrugate	9	3
corrupted	9	3
corrupter	9	3
corruptly	9	3
corruptor	9	3
costumers	9	3
costumery	9	4
costumier	9	3
costuming	9	3
cothurnus	9	3
cotqueans	9	2
cotrustee	9	2
couturier	9	3
crapulous	9	3
credulity	9	4
credulous	9	3
crenulate	9	3
crepuscle	9	2
croqueted	9	3
croquette	9	2
culturati	9	4
culturing	9	3
curculios	9	3
custumals	9	3
cutpurses	9	3
daiquiris	9	3
debauched	9	3
debauchee	9	2
debaucher	9	3
debauches	9	3
debouched	9	3
debouches	9	3
debruised	9	3
debruises	9	3
decoupage	9	3
decoupled	9	3
decouples	9	3
defaulted	9	3
defaulter	9	3
degaussed	9	3
degausser	9	3
degausses	9	3
dejeuners	9	3
delousers	9	3
delousing	9	3
demiurges	9	3
demiurgic	9	3
demounted	9	3
denounced	9	3
denouncer	9	3
denounces	9	3
dentulous	9	3
denturist	9	3
depluming	9	3
detouring	9	3
detruding	9	3
devourers	9	3
devouring	9	3
devoutest	9	3
diffusely	9	4
diffusers	9	3
diffusing	9	3
diffusion	9	3
diffusive	9	3
diffusors	9	3
disbudded	9	3
disburden	9	3
disbursed	9	3
disburser	9	3
disburses	9	3
discussed	9	3
discusser	9	3
discusses	9	3
disguised	9	3
disguiser	9	3
disguises	9	3
disgusted	9	3
disjuncts	9	2
disputant	9	3
disputers	9	3
disputing	9	3
disquiets	9	2
disrupted	9	3
disrupter	9	3
dissuaded	9	3
dissuader	9	3
dissuades	9	3
disturbed	9	3
disturber	9	3
echiuroid	9	3
effluence	9	2
effluents	9	2
effluvium	9	3
effluxion	9	3
ejaculate	9	4
elocution	9	4
eloquence	9	3
embruting	9	3
emolument	9	4
encaustic	9	3
encounter	9	3
encourage	9	3
encrusted	9	3
englutted	9	3
ensouling	9	3
enthusing	9	3
entourage	9	3
entrusted	9	3
epicurean	9	4
epicurism	9	4
espousals	9	3
espousers	9	3
espousing	9	3
etiquette	9	3
euphuisms	9	2
euphuists	9	2
evacuants	9	3
evacuated	9	4
evacuates	9	4
evaluated	9	4
evaluates	9	4
evaluator	9	4
evolution	9	4
excluders	9	3
excluding	9	3
exclusion	9	3
exclusive	9	3
executant	9	4
executers	9	4
executing	9	4
execution	9	4
executive	9	4
executors	9	4
executory	9	5
executrix	9	4
exhausted	9	3
exhauster	9	3
expounded	9	3
expounder	9	3
extruders	9	3
extruding	9	3
extrusion	9	3
extrusive	9	3
factually	9	3
favourers	9	3
favouring	9	3
featuring	9	3
ferruling	9	3
fettucine	9	3
fettucini	9	4
fissuring	9	3
fistulous	9	3
flatulent	9	3
forjudged	9	3
forjudges	9	3
formulaic	9	3
formulary	9	4
formulate	9	3
formulize	9	3
fortunate	9	3
fortuning	9	3
foxhunted	9	3
foxhunter	9	3
frenulums	9	3
frequence	9	2
frequency	9	3
frequents	9	2
fulgurant	9	3
fulgurate	9	3
fulgurite	9	3
fulgurous	9	3
furfurals	9	3
furfurans	9	3
gambusias	9	3
garrulity	9	4
garrulous	9	3
gesturers	9	3
gesturing	9	3
globulins	9	3
gradually	9	3
graduands	9	2
graduated	9	3
graduates	9	3
graduator	9	3
granulate	9	3
granulite	9	3
granuloma	9	4
granulose	9	3
gratulate	9	3
gunrunner	9	3
gutbucket	9	3
gutturals	9	3
hachuring	9	3
hagbushes	9	3
hamburger	9	3
harquebus	9	3
harrumphs	9	2
herculean	9	3
hereunder	9	3
hiccuping	9	3
hiccupped	9	3
hirsutism	9	3
honourers	9	3
honouring	9	3
humbugged	9	3
humouring	9	3
imbruting	9	3
impounded	9	3
imprudent	9	3
inbounded	9	3
incaution	9	3
including	9	3
inclusion	9	3
inclusive	9	3
incrusted	9	3
influence	9	2
influents	9	2
influenza	9	3
inhaulers	9	3
inoculant	9	4
inoculate	9	4
inoculums	9	4
inpouring	9	3
insculped	9	3
insouling	9	3
intruders	9	3
intruding	9	3
intrusion	9	3
intrusive	9	3
intrusted	9	3
isobutane	9	4
jacquards	9	2
jacquerie	9	2
jalousies	9	3
jiujutsus	9	3
joyfuller	9	3
kerfuffle	9	2
keybutton	9	3
kibbutzim	9	3
kiddushes	9	3
labourers	9	3
labouring	9	3
lacquered	9	3
lacquerer	9	3
lacqueyed	9	2
languages	9	3
languidly	9	3
larrupers	9	3
larruping	9	3
leaguered	9	3
lecturers	9	3
lecturing	9	3
leisurely	9	4
limousine	9	3
lingually	9	3
linguines	9	3
linguinis	9	3
linguists	9	2
longueurs	9	2
macrurans	9	3
maneuvers	9	3
marauders	9	3
marauding	9	3
marquetry	9	3
marquises	9	3
marsupial	9	3
marsupium	9	3
masculine	9	3
maybushes	9	3
mazourkas	9	3
measurers	9	3
measuring	9	3
mercurate	9	3
mercurial	9	3
mercuries	9	3
mercurous	9	3
meshuggah	9	3
mesquites	9	3
messuages	9	3
mezquites	9	3
micturate	9	3
midsummer	9	3
misbuilds	9	2
misbutton	9	3
misguided	9	3
misguider	9	3
misguides	9	3
misjudged	9	3
misjudges	9	3
misquoted	9	3
misquotes	9	3
misruling	9	3
missuited	9	3
mistuning	9	3
mistutors	9	3
molluscan	9	3
molluskan	9	3
mosquitos	9	3
mudguards	9	2
mundungos	9	3
mundungus	9	3
murmurers	9	3
murmuring	9	3
murmurous	9	3
neptunium	9	3
nocturnal	9	3
nocturnes	9	3
nonauthor	9	3
nonbuying	9	2
nonguests	9	2
nonguilts	9	2
nonhunter	9	3
nonjuring	9	3
nonjurors	9	3
nonmusics	9	3
nonmutant	9	3
nonpublic	9	3
nonrubber	9	3
nonruling	9	3
nonsuches	9	3
nonsugars	9	3
nonsuited	9	3
nurturant	9	3
nurturers	9	3
nurturing	9	3
obscurant	9	3
obscurely	9	4
obscurest	9	3
obscuring	9	3
obscurity	9	4
obtruders	9	3
obtruding	9	3
obtrusion	9	3
obtrusive	9	3
occluding	9	3
occlusion	9	3
occlusive	9	3
oligurias	9	4
ophiuroid	9	3
outbuilds	9	2
outbulked	9	3
outburned	9	3
outbursts	9	2
outbuying	9	2
outcursed	9	3
outcurses	9	3
outcurves	9	3
outdueled	9	3
outfumble	9	2
outguided	9	3
outguides	9	3
outgunned	9	3
outgushes	9	3
outhumors	9	3
outhunted	9	3
outhustle	9	2
outjumped	9	3
outjutted	9	3
outmuscle	9	2
outnumber	9	3
outpulled	9	3
outpushed	9	3
outpushes	9	3
outputted	9	3
outquoted	9	3
outquotes	9	3
outrushed	9	3
outrushes	9	3
outsulked	9	3
overurged	9	4
overurges	9	4
overusing	9	4
oviductal	9	4
parbuckle	9	2
parqueted	9	3
parquetry	9	3
pasturage	9	3
pasturers	9	3
pasturing	9	3
pendulous	9	3
pendulums	9	3
percussed	9	3
percusses	9	3
perduring	9	3
perfumers	9	3
perfumery	9	4
perfuming	9	3
perfusate	9	3
perfusing	9	3
perfusion	9	3
perjurers	9	3
perjuries	9	3
perjuring	9	3
permuting	9	3
persuaded	9	3
persuader	9	3
persuades	9	3
perturbed	9	3
pertussis	9	3
picturing	9	3
picturize	9	3
pirouette	9	2
pollutant	9	3
polluters	9	3
polluting	9	3
pollution	9	3
pollutive	9	3
polyurias	9	3
porcupine	9	3
portulaca	9	4
postulant	9	3
postulate	9	3
posturers	9	3
posturing	9	3
pothunter	9	3
preaudits	9	2
precuring	9	3
precursor	9	3
prehumans	9	3
prejudged	9	3
prejudger	9	3
prejudges	9	3
prejudice	9	3
preluders	9	3
preluding	9	3
prelusion	9	3
prelusive	9	3
prenumber	9	3
preputial	9	3
presumers	9	3
presuming	9	3
presummit	9	3
procurals	9	3
procurers	9	3
procuring	9	3
producers	9	3
producing	9	3
profusely	9	4
profusion	9	3
prolusion	9	3
prolusory	9	4
promulged	9	3
promulges	9	3
pronuclei	9	3
pullulate	9	3
purpurins	9	3
pursuance	9	2
pustulant	9	3
querulous	9	3
ragouting	9	3
rambutans	9	3
rapturing	9	3
rapturous	9	3
rebounded	9	3
rebounder	9	3
reclusion	9	3
reclusive	9	3
recounted	9	3
recounter	9	3
recouping	9	3
recoupled	9	3
recouples	9	3
recourses	9	3
recruited	9	3
recruiter	9	3
redoubled	9	3
redoubles	9	3
redounded	9	3
reeducate	9	3
refluence	9	2
refluxing	9	3
refounded	9	3
regauging	9	3
rehousing	9	3
remounted	9	3
renounced	9	3
renouncer	9	3
renounces	9	3
replumbed	9	3
replunged	9	3
replunges	9	3
repouring	9	3
repousses	9	3
rerouting	9	3
rescuable	9	2
resculpts	9	2
reshuffle	9	2
resounded	9	3
resources	9	3
restudied	9	3
restudies	9	3
restuffed	9	3
retouched	9	3
retoucher	9	3
retouches	9	3
rigaudons	9	3
rumouring	9	3
rumrunner	9	3
rupturing	9	3
sacculate	9	3
sanguines	9	3
sapsucker	9	3
savourers	9	3
savourier	9	3
savouries	9	3
savouring	9	3
scapulars	9	3
schlumped	9	2
scrouging	9	2
scrounged	9	2
scrounger	9	2
scrounges	9	2
seaquakes	9	3
secluding	9	3
seclusion	9	3
seclusive	9	3
sensually	9	3
septupled	9	3
septuples	9	3
sextupled	9	3
sextuples	9	3
sextuplet	9	3
shogunate	9	3
shrouding	9	2
singulars	9	3
sodbuster	9	3
sojourned	9	3
sojourner	9	3
spatulate	9	3
speculate	9	3
speculums	9	3
spelunked	9	3
spelunker	9	3
spinulose	9	3
spleuchan	9	2
spodumene	9	3
sporulate	9	3
sprouting	9	2
statuette	9	2
statutory	9	4
stimulant	9	3
stimulate	9	3
stipulate	9	3
streusels	9	2
strouding	9	2
subducing	9	3
subducted	9	3
subduedly	9	3
subhumans	9	3
subjugate	9	3
sublunary	9	4
submucosa	9	4
subsuming	9	3
subtunics	9	3
succulent	9	3
succumbed	9	3
succussed	9	3
succusses	9	3
suffusing	9	3
suffusion	9	3
suffusive	9	3
sulfurets	9	3
sulfuring	9	3
sulfurize	9	3
sulfurous	9	3
sulfuryls	9	3
sunburned	9	3
sunbursts	9	2
suppurate	9	3
tabourers	9	3
tabourets	9	3
tabouring	9	3
tactually	9	3
talmudism	9	3
tarbushes	9	3
tartuffes	9	3
teacupful	9	3
telluride	9	3
tellurium	9	3
textually	9	3
texturing	9	3
texturize	9	3
thioureas	9	2
throughly	9	2
tilburies	9	3
tittuping	9	3
tittupped	9	3
tonguings	9	2
tonsuring	9	3
toreutics	9	3
torqueses	9	3
torturers	9	3
torturing	9	3
torturous	9	3
traducers	9	3
traducing	9	3
trapuntos	9	3
trebuchet	9	3
trebucket	9	3
tremulant	9	3
tremulous	9	3
tribulate	9	3
tribunals	9	3
tribunate	9	3
tributary	9	4
tricuspid	9	3
triturate	9	3
truculent	9	3
turbulent	9	3
turquoise	9	2
umlauting	9	3
unamusing	9	4
unbounded	9	3
unbruised	9	3
unbrushed	9	3
unclutter	9	3
uncounted	9	3
uncoupled	9	3
uncoupler	9	3
uncouples	9	3
uncouthly	9	3
uncrumple	9	2
undaunted	9	3
undoubled	9	3
undoubles	9	3
undoubted	9	3
unequaled	9	4
unequally	9	4
unfounded	9	3
unhousing	9	3
unmounted	9	3
unplugged	9	3
unplumbed	9	3
unrounded	9	3
unsounded	9	3
unsounder	9	3
unsoundly	9	3
unstudied	9	3
untouched	9	3
untrussed	9	3
untrusses	9	3
unusually	9	4
unwounded	9	3
upchucked	9	3
upcountry	9	3
uprousing	9	3
vacuuming	9	3
vanguards	9	2
vapourers	9	3
vapouring	9	3
vasculums	9	3
veinulets	9	3
venturers	9	3
venturing	9	3
venturous	9	3
verdurous	9	3
verjuices	9	3
verrucose	9	3
vesturing	9	3
victualed	9	3
victualer	9	3
vinculums	9	3
virtually	9	3
virtuosas	9	3
virtuosic	9	3
virtuosos	9	3
voyeurism	9	2
vulturine	9	3
vulturish	9	3
vulturous	9	3
whodunits	9	3
whodunnit	9	3
woefuller	9	3
yarmulkes	9	3
zarzuelas	9	3
ziggurats	9	3
zikkurats	9	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.