5-Letter Words Matching _ U _ C _

72 valid 5-letter words match the pattern _ U _ C _, 17 of which are common words. 2 green letters locked in.

17 common words72 valid words

Common Words (17)

Words most likely to be the answer.

dutch
butch
hutch
gulch
mulch
lunch
quick
lurch
juicy
dunce
quack
hunch
ounce
juice
munch
bunch
punch

Other Valid 5-Letter Words (55)

Valid as guesses, but unlikely to be the answer.

bucca
bucco
buick
bunce
bunco
burch
burck
busch
cueca
culch
curch
cusco
cutch
cuzco
dulce
dulci
dulcy
dunch
funch
furca
fusco
guaco
huaca
huaco
hulch
husch
junco
kusch
kutch
lucca
mulct
muncy
musca
musci
mutch
nunce
nunch
nunci
punce
punct
quica
ruach
runch
runck
rutch
subch
succi
sulci
tunca
turco
yucca
yucch
yunca
zucco
zulch

What These Words Have in Common

Letter patterns across all 72 matches.

Most common letters

u72
c72
h32
n22
a14
l13
b11
o11
t11
i10

Vowel distribution

  • 0 with no vowels
  • 35 with 1 unique vowel
  • 31 with 2 unique vowels
  • 6 with 3+ unique vowels

Most common endings

  • -ch · 30 words
  • -ca · 10 words
  • -co · 10 words
  • -ce · 7 words
  • -ck · 5 words

Strategy

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

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