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5 Letter Words With H and U
This list does three jobs: narrowing down a guess in a Wordle-style game, filling in a crossword, and checking whether a word is real. It has 193 five-letter words with H and U, with the 59 common ones (house, south, human, truth) first.
H and U sit side by side in 79 of these words (41%), most often as HU. On average a word here has 1.5 vowels, and the most frequent other vowel is O (in 37 words). 18% repeat a letter, like truth. The most common first letter is H (53 words).
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Common 5-letter words with H and U (59)
Everyday words, most common first. Only these can be the answer in our daily puzzle.
- house
- south
- human
- truth
- touch
- mouth
- tough
- youth
- laugh
- lunch
- bunch
- rough
- ought
- punch
- brush
- humor
- chuck
- couch
- crush
- hurry
- shout
- thumb
- cough
- dough
- flush
- chunk
- blush
- haunt
- usher
- humid
- hound
- pouch
- plush
- shrug
- husky
- chute
- shrub
- vouch
- haiku
- munch
- churn
- hunch
- hutch
- duchy
- pushy
- slush
- bushy
- thump
- mushy
- chump
- mulch
- ghoul
- shunt
- lurch
- gulch
- quash
- shush
- bough
- cushy
Tip: try crush as your next guess. It tests 5 different letters that are common in this group. Since 18% of these words repeat a letter, try a double when nothing else fits.
All 5-letter words with H and U (193)
From A to Z, including plurals and other forms that count as guesses.
ahull aught bhuts blush bough brugh brush buhls buhrs bumph bunch burgh bushy butch chubs chuck chufa chuff chugs chump chums chunk churl churn churr chute couch cough couth crush cuish culch curch cushy cutch dhuti dough duchy dunch dutch faugh fichu flush ghaut ghoul gulch gursh gushy habus haiku hakus haugh haulm hauls haunt haute heuch heugh hilum hilus hocus hokku hokum hough hound houri hours house hubby hucks huffs huffy huger hulas hulks hulky hullo hulls human humic humid humor humph humps humpy humus hunch hunks hunky hunts hurds hurls hurly hurry hurst hurts husks husky hussy hutch huzza jehus khoum laugh lehua lough lunch lurch lushy mohur mouch mouth muhly mulch munch mushy musth mutch nucha nudzh ought ouphe ouphs phuts plush pouch prahu pujah punch pushy quash quoth qursh rheum rhumb rough routh ruche rushy ruths sadhu sauch saugh schul shaul shout shoyu shrub shrug shtum shuck shuln shuls shuns shunt shush shute shuts slush sough south subah sughs surah sushi teuch teugh thous thrum thuds thugs thuja thumb thump thunk thurl thuya touch tough truth tushy uhlan unhat unhip usher vouch vughs waugh whaup whump whups youth yucch
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Frequently asked questions
How many five-letter words have both H and U?
Our dictionary has 193, which is 2.1% of all five-letter words. 59 of them are common words that can be the daily answer; the rest are valid guesses.
What is the most common five-letter word with both H and U?
Going by how often words appear in everyday English, house, followed by hours and south.
What is a good guess from this list?
Try crush. It has 5 different letters, all common in this group, so one guess tells you a lot. 18% of these words repeat a letter, so keep doubles in mind later.