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9-letter words with U as the 6th letter

A curated list of 9-letter words tailored to this exact pattern. Use this when U is fixed in the 6th slot; rotate high-frequency consonants elsewhere to prune fast. For example: absoluter, absolutes, abstruser.

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705 words

Word	Length	Syllables
absoluter	9	4
absolutes	9	4
abstruser	9	3
acellular	9	4
acervulus	9	4
aeroducts	9	3
alehouses	9	4
alfaquins	9	3
alleluias	9	3
altitudes	9	4
ambiguity	9	4
ambiguous	9	3
amorously	9	4
amygdules	9	4
anacruses	9	4
anacrusis	9	4
angeluses	9	4
annuluses	9	4
antiauxin	9	3
antihuman	9	4
antiquark	9	3
antiquary	9	4
antiquate	9	3
antiquers	9	3
antiquing	9	3
antiquity	9	4
antirusts	9	3
antitumor	9	4
anxiously	9	3
apertures	9	4
applauded	9	3
applauder	9	3
applauses	9	3
aptitudes	9	4
aqueducts	9	3
arbutuses	9	4
arcatures	9	4
archducal	9	3
archduchy	9	3
archdukes	9	3
arduously	9	3
arethusas	9	4
armatured	9	4
armatures	9	4
articular	9	4
assiduity	9	4
assiduous	9	3
attenuate	9	3
attitudes	9	4
auriculae	9	3
auricular	9	4
auriculas	9	4
autobuses	9	4
avascular	9	4
avifaunae	9	3
avifaunal	9	4
avifaunas	9	4
avuncular	9	4
babirusas	9	4
badmouths	9	2
baghouses	9	3
balefully	9	4
banefully	9	4
bankrupts	9	2
baroquely	9	4
bashfully	9	3
beclouded	9	3
beliquors	9	3
bellpulls	9	2
berceuses	9	3
bescoured	9	3
beshouted	9	3
bespoused	9	3
bespouses	9	3
bethought	9	2
bigmouths	9	2
biliously	9	3
bilirubin	9	4
binocular	9	4
bisexuals	9	3
blastulae	9	2
blastulas	9	3
blesbucks	9	2
blowtubes	9	3
bodyguard	9	3
bodysuits	9	3
bodysurfs	9	3
boletuses	9	4
bousoukia	9	3
bousoukis	9	3
bouzoukia	9	3
bouzoukis	9	3
boxhauled	9	3
bratwurst	9	2
brochures	9	3
brusquely	9	3
brusquest	9	2
bughouses	9	3
bulbously	9	3
burnouses	9	3
bushbucks	9	2
caciquism	9	3
caestuses	9	3
calctufas	9	3
calctuffs	9	2
calloused	9	3
callouses	9	3
callously	9	3
calyculus	9	4
canicular	9	4
capitular	9	4
capitulum	9	4
carefully	9	4
carnaubas	9	3
caroluses	9	4
carrousel	9	3
cartouche	9	2
cassoulet	9	3
catapults	9	3
cathouses	9	3
ceintures	9	3
centaurea	9	3
chibouque	9	2
chipmucks	9	2
chipmunks	9	2
chirruped	9	3
cinctured	9	3
cinctures	9	3
clamoured	9	3
clinquant	9	2
coadjutor	9	3
coassumed	9	3
coassumes	9	3
coendured	9	3
coendures	9	3
coiffured	9	3
coiffures	9	3
coinsured	9	3
coinsurer	9	3
coinsures	9	3
comatulae	9	3
compounds	9	2
concluded	9	3
concluder	9	3
concludes	9	3
concourse	9	2
confluent	9	2
confluxes	9	3
confounds	9	2
congruent	9	2
congruity	9	3
congruous	9	2
contoured	9	3
copiously	9	3
cornhusks	9	2
creatural	9	3
creatures	9	3
cubatures	9	4
cubiculum	9	4
curiouser	9	3
curiously	9	3
cuticulae	9	3
cuticular	9	4
cynosures	9	4
dandruffs	9	2
dandruffy	9	3
danseuses	9	3
deciduate	9	3
deciduous	9	3
defocused	9	4
defocuses	9	4
defrauded	9	3
defrauder	9	3
demilunes	9	4
denatured	9	4
denatures	9	4
destructs	9	2
devaluate	9	3
devaluing	9	3
deviously	9	3
diapaused	9	3
diapauses	9	3
direfully	9	4
disabused	9	4
disabuses	9	4
discounts	9	2
discourse	9	2
dismounts	9	2
displumed	9	3
displumes	9	3
distrusts	9	2
dogfought	9	2
doghouses	9	3
dolefully	9	4
doomfully	9	3
doublures	9	3
downburst	9	2
downturns	9	2
drawtubes	9	3
dubiously	9	3
dumfounds	9	2
duralumin	9	4
dutifully	9	4
dyestuffs	9	2
easefully	9	4
electuary	9	4
elkhounds	9	2
emulously	9	4
enamoured	9	4
enviously	9	3
epifaunae	9	3
epifaunal	9	4
epifaunas	9	4
epineuria	9	4
eventuate	9	3
exposures	9	4
extenuate	9	3
fatefully	9	4
fatiguing	9	3
fatuously	9	3
faubourgs	9	2
fauteuils	9	2
fearfully	9	3
filatures	9	4
finitudes	9	4
fireguard	9	3
flavoured	9	3
floccules	9	3
flocculus	9	3
fluctuant	9	2
fluctuate	9	2
fogfruits	9	2
forejudge	9	3
foxhounds	9	2
fractured	9	3
fractures	9	3
fretfully	9	3
fructuous	9	2
frustules	9	3
funicular	9	4
funiculus	9	4
furiously	9	3
furloughs	9	2
gainfully	9	3
gashouses	9	3
gastrulae	9	2
gastrular	9	3
gastrulas	9	3
geepounds	9	2
gemsbucks	9	2
genitures	9	4
glamoured	9	3
glandular	9	3
glandules	9	3
gleefully	9	3
grampuses	9	3
grossular	9	3
guitguits	9	2
gunfought	9	2
habituate	9	3
habitudes	9	4
halituses	9	4
handcuffs	9	2
harboured	9	3
harmfully	9	3
hatefully	9	4
headhunts	9	2
hebetudes	9	4
heedfully	9	3
heinously	9	3
helpfully	9	3
hematuria	9	4
henequens	9	3
henequins	9	3
henhouses	9	3
heniquens	9	3
hibakusha	9	4
hiccoughs	9	2
hideously	9	3
hifalutin	9	4
homebuilt	9	3
hopefully	9	4
hothouses	9	3
hugeously	9	3
hurtfully	9	3
hydraulic	9	3
icehouses	9	4
ichneumon	9	3
icteruses	9	4
immatures	9	4
impetuous	9	3
impetuses	9	4
impiously	9	3
inaugural	9	4
incisures	9	4
incubuses	9	4
infatuate	9	3
ingenuity	9	4
ingenuous	9	3
innocuous	9	3
insinuate	9	3
insoluble	9	3
insolubly	9	4
instructs	9	2
interunit	9	4
intituled	9	4
intitules	9	4
involucra	9	4
involucre	9	3
involuted	9	4
involutes	9	4
irregular	9	4
isthmuses	9	3
jacobuses	9	4
jealously	9	3
jointured	9	3
jointures	9	3
jumpsuits	9	2
junctural	9	3
junctures	9	3
kashruths	9	2
kerplunks	9	2
landaulet	9	3
langouste	9	2
latitudes	9	4
leprously	9	3
lifeguard	9	3
ligatured	9	4
ligatures	9	4
lodicules	9	4
lustfully	9	3
madhouses	9	3
malaguena	9	4
malamutes	9	4
malemutes	9	4
mamelukes	9	4
manicured	9	4
manicures	9	4
manipular	9	4
manoeuvre	9	2
marihuana	9	4
marijuana	9	4
masscults	9	2
masseuses	9	3
megabucks	9	3
methought	9	2
midcourse	9	2
mindfully	9	3
minibuses	9	4
miscounts	9	2
misdoubts	9	2
misgauged	9	3
misgauges	9	3
misrouted	9	3
misroutes	9	3
missounds	9	2
mistaught	9	2
mistrusts	9	2
mistruths	9	2
moistures	9	3
molecular	9	4
molecules	9	4
monocular	9	4
monofuels	9	3
monohulls	9	3
monovular	9	4
moondusts	9	2
moonquake	9	2
mucklucks	9	2
multiunit	9	3
multiuser	9	3
myoneural	9	3
navicular	9	4
needfully	9	3
nervously	9	3
nocuously	9	3
nonadults	9	3
noncausal	9	3
nonchurch	9	2
noncounty	9	3
nonequals	9	3
nonfluids	9	2
nonplused	9	3
nonpluses	9	3
nontruths	9	2
noseguard	9	3
noxiously	9	3
nucleuses	9	3
numskulls	9	2
nuthouses	9	3
obliquely	9	4
obliquing	9	3
obliquity	9	4
obloquies	9	3
obsequies	9	3
obstructs	9	2
obviously	9	3
octopuses	9	4
odorously	9	4
oestruses	9	3
oldsquaws	9	2
ololiuqui	9	4
ominously	9	4
omnibuses	9	4
onerously	9	4
onslaught	9	2
opercular	9	4
opercules	9	4
operculum	9	4
opuscules	9	4
opusculum	9	4
orangutan	9	4
orbicular	9	4
osnaburgs	9	3
ossicular	9	4
outbluffs	9	2
outbought	9	2
outcaught	9	2
outcounts	9	2
outfought	9	2
outhouses	9	3
outlaughs	9	2
outpoured	9	3
outstunts	9	2
outtrumps	9	2
outvaunts	9	2
ovalbumin	9	4
overbuild	9	3
overbuilt	9	3
overburns	9	3
overburnt	9	3
overcured	9	4
overcures	9	4
overfunds	9	3
overfussy	9	4
overhunts	9	3
overpumps	9	3
overruffs	9	3
overruled	9	4
overrules	9	4
overtured	9	4
overtures	9	4
overturns	9	3
pachoulis	9	3
painfully	9	3
pantsuits	9	2
papyruses	9	4
paraquats	9	3
paraquets	9	3
parlously	9	3
paroquets	9	3
pedicured	9	4
pedicures	9	4
peloruses	9	4
perilunes	9	4
petasuses	9	4
phalluses	9	3
phoebuses	9	3
picayunes	9	3
piecrusts	9	2
pipsqueak	9	2
pirarucus	9	4
piteously	9	3
pitifully	9	4
playfully	9	3
playsuits	9	2
pleasured	9	3
pleasures	9	3
polypuses	9	4
pompously	9	3
postludes	9	3
pothouses	9	3
potpourri	9	3
precluded	9	3
precludes	9	3
prefeudal	9	3
prelaunch	9	2
pressured	9	3
pressures	9	3
priapuses	9	3
profluent	9	2
profounds	9	2
pronounce	9	2
propounds	9	2
proteuses	9	3
protruded	9	3
protrudes	9	3
punctuate	9	2
punctured	9	3
punctures	9	3
pyloruses	9	4
quaaludes	9	3
quadruped	9	3
quadruple	9	2
quadruply	9	3
quidnuncs	9	2
quietudes	9	3
quietuses	9	3
quintuple	9	2
radicular	9	4
railbuses	9	3
ramequins	9	3
raucously	9	3
reaccused	9	3
reaccuses	9	3
reacquire	9	2
readjusts	9	2
rearguard	9	2
rearguing	9	2
rearousal	9	3
rearoused	9	3
rearouses	9	3
reassumed	9	3
reassumes	9	3
reassured	9	3
reassures	9	3
rechauffe	9	2
reedbucks	9	2
refigured	9	4
refigures	9	4
refocused	9	4
refocuses	9	4
regrouped	9	3
reguluses	9	4
reimburse	9	2
reinduced	9	3
reinduces	9	3
reinducts	9	2
reinfused	9	3
reinfuses	9	3
reinjured	9	3
reinjures	9	3
reinsured	9	3
reinsurer	9	3
reinsures	9	3
reissuers	9	2
reissuing	9	2
reliquary	9	4
reliquefy	9	4
reliquiae	9	2
renatured	9	4
renatures	9	4
resaluted	9	4
resalutes	9	4
resecured	9	4
resecures	9	4
residuals	9	3
residuary	9	4
residuums	9	3
resoluble	9	3
resoluter	9	4
resolutes	9	4
restfully	9	3
rethought	9	2
reticular	9	4
reticules	9	4
reticulum	9	4
retinulae	9	3
retinular	9	4
retinulas	9	4
retrousse	9	2
revaluate	9	3
revaluing	9	3
revenuers	9	3
rewrought	9	2
rhamnuses	9	3
rhombuses	9	3
ricinuses	9	4
ridiculed	9	4
ridiculer	9	4
ridicules	9	4
riotously	9	3
ruinously	9	3
runrounds	9	2
ruthfully	9	3
safeguard	9	3
sanctuary	9	3
sandburrs	9	2
sardiuses	9	3
scheduled	9	3
scheduler	9	3
schedules	9	3
schnauzer	9	2
scissures	9	3
scorbutic	9	3
scrofulas	9	3
seamounts	9	2
sederunts	9	3
semilunar	9	4
semirural	9	4
seriously	9	3
shantungs	9	2
shelducks	9	2
sideburns	9	3
siliculae	9	3
simarubas	9	4
sinecures	9	4
sinuously	9	3
slanguage	9	2
snowsuits	9	2
soliquids	9	3
solitudes	9	4
songfully	9	3
sonobuoys	9	3
soulfully	9	3
spherules	9	3
stardusts	9	2
strenuous	9	2
subadults	9	3
subcauses	9	3
subcounty	9	3
succoured	9	3
sulphured	9	3
sumptuary	9	3
sumptuous	9	2
surmounts	9	2
surpluses	9	3
surrounds	9	2
swimsuits	9	2
tabbouleh	9	3
tactfully	9	3
tambouras	9	3
tamboured	9	3
tambourer	9	3
taphouses	9	3
tarpaulin	9	3
teahouses	9	3
tearfully	9	3
tediously	9	3
tenaculum	9	4
tenuously	9	3
tetanuses	9	4
thalluses	9	3
thereunto	9	3
thereupon	9	3
thesaural	9	3
thesaurus	9	3
thingummy	9	3
timeously	9	3
tinctured	9	3
tinctures	9	3
toilfully	9	3
transuded	9	3
transudes	9	3
treasured	9	3
treasurer	9	3
treasures	9	3
tressures	9	3
trismuses	9	3
troiluses	9	3
tubulures	9	4
tumuluses	9	4
tunefully	9	4
unattuned	9	4
unbemused	9	4
unclouded	9	3
undeluded	9	4
underused	9	4
undiluted	9	4
unexcused	9	4
unfocused	9	4
ungrouped	9	3
uninjured	9	4
uninsured	9	4
unitrusts	9	3
unnatural	9	4
unpopular	9	4
unsecured	9	4
untenured	9	4
unthought	9	2
upthrusts	9	2
usufructs	9	3
utricular	9	4
utriculus	9	4
vacuously	9	3
variously	9	3
vehicular	9	4
vendeuses	9	3
vermouths	9	2
vesiculae	9	3
vesicular	9	4
viciously	9	3
viscounts	9	2
viscounty	9	3
viscously	9	3
vocabular	9	4
vomituses	9	4
wailfully	9	3
wakefully	9	4
warmouths	9	2
waveguide	9	3
wellcurbs	9	2
whereunto	9	3
whereupon	9	3
willfully	9	3
windburns	9	2
windburnt	9	2
windsurfs	9	2
wishfully	9	3
wistfully	9	3
woodruffs	9	2
yoghourts	9	2
yokozunas	9	4
zealously	9	3
zestfully	9	3

FAQs

How do I play around a fixed U in the 6th slot?
Try mixing common consonant clusters (ST, TR, CH) in other positions while keeping U locked.

Why are uncommon words included?
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