5-Letter Words Matching _ _ U C _

59 valid 5-letter words match the pattern _ _ U C _, 15 of which are common words. 2 green letters locked in.

15 common words59 valid words

Common Words (15)

Words most likely to be the answer.

cluck
pluck
vouch
stuck
couch
snuck
truce
pouch
touch
chuck
shuck
saucy
sauce
deuce
truck

Other Valid 5-Letter Words (44)

Valid as guesses, but unlikely to be the answer.

aluco
amuck
bauch
bouch
boucl
bruce
bruch
cauca
cauch
chuch
cruce
cruck
douce
druce
druci
drucy
educe
educt
eruca
eruct
fauch
gaucy
gluck
hauck
heuch
houck
jauch
kauch
kluck
leuce
leuch
leuco
louch
mouch
nauch
pouce
poucy
rauch
sauch
teuch
urucu
wauch
wouch
yauco

What These Words Have in Common

Letter patterns across all 59 matches.

Most common letters

u59
c59
h26
a18
e17
o16
k14
r13
l10
d7

Vowel distribution

  • 0 with no vowels
  • 14 with 1 unique vowel
  • 38 with 2 unique vowels
  • 7 with 3+ unique vowels

Most common endings

  • -ch · 22 words
  • -ck · 13 words
  • -ce · 10 words
  • -cy · 4 words
  • -co · 3 words

Strategy

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

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