5-Letter Words Matching _ _ U _ H

72 valid 5-letter words match the pattern _ _ U _ H, 21 of which are common words. 2 green letters locked in.

21 common words72 valid words

Common Words (21)

Words most likely to be the answer.

blush
vouch
youth
bough
tough
couch
plush
laugh
cough
dough
pouch
touch
south
slush
shush
brush
rough
crush
truth
mouth
flush

Other Valid 5-Letter Words (51)

Valid as guesses, but unlikely to be the answer.

abush
agush
ahush
bauch
baugh
bouch
bruch
brugh
cauch
chuah
chuch
couth
cruth
fauch
faugh
fouth
frush
gough
grush
haugh
heuch
heugh
hough
jauch
jough
kauch
knuth
leuch
louch
lough
louth
maugh
mouch
nauch
paugh
pruth
rauch
routh
sauch
saugh
seugh
smush
sough
teuch
teugh
trush
wauch
waugh
whush
wouch
wough

What These Words Have in Common

Letter patterns across all 72 matches.

Most common letters

u72
h72
c27
o26
g25
a21
s20
t16
r13
b9

Vowel distribution

  • 0 with no vowels
  • 19 with 1 unique vowel
  • 53 with 2 unique vowels
  • 0 with 3+ unique vowels

Most common endings

  • -gh · 23 words
  • -ch · 22 words
  • -sh · 15 words
  • -th · 11 words
  • -ah · 1 words

Strategy

21 answers fit. Look at the most common remaining letters above and choose a guess that probes the unknown positions.

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