5-letter words with U as the second letter
There are 1,140 five-letter words with U as the second letter in Unscrambly's open word list; the highest scoring are FUZZY and HUZZY, tied at 29 points. B is the most common first letter among them (116), and the average score is 9.7 points.
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Pinning a letter to an exact slot is the core of Wordle strategy: a green U in the second position leaves these 1,140 words as candidates. Every word below is exactly five letters with U in slot 2, shown with its Scrabble score, and examples include FUZZY, HUZZY, MUZZY, BUZZY and HUZZA. Feed the letters you already know into the Wordle helper to narrow a puzzle with a U in slot 2 further.
For Wordle, NURSE is a strong guess from this list: of the familiar words with five different letters, it uses the letters found in the most of these 1,140 words.
5-letter words with U as the second letter in numbers
- Words
- 1,140
- Highest scoring
- FUZZY 29 pts
- Average score
- 9.7 pts
- With a definition
- 608 (53%)
- A25
- B116
- C76
- D80
- E5
- F59
- G69
- H48
- J36
- K23
- L61
- M93
- N24
- O25
- P92
- Q69
- R66
- S71
- T60
- V7
- W7
- Y23
- Z5
Highest-scoring 5-letter words with u as the second letter
5-letter words with U as the second letter (1,140)
These 300 of the 1,140 are a spread sample: the 50 highest scoring first, then words taken in turn from every first letter; within each, words with a dictionary definition come first. The solver above searches all of them for your tiles, and the free JSON API has the full word lists.
Frequently asked questions
How many 5 letter words have U as the second letter?
Unscrambly's list has 1,140 five-letter words with U in the second position, 9.1% of all five-letter words.
How do I use this list for Wordle?
If your second tile turned green as U, these 1,140 words are your candidates. Cross off any word that uses a letter you have already ruled out, and prefer a guess that tests new letters, such as NURSE.
What is the highest scoring 5 letter word with U as the second letter?
FUZZY and HUZZY tie at 29 points in Scrabble. Next come BUZZY (28), MUZZY (28) and HUZZA (26). The average is 9.7 points.