5 letter words ending in U
There are 156 5 letter words ending in u in this list, most common first. Filter by letters.
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The most-used 5 letter words ending in u, and what they mean
These are the 12 that come up most often in written English, so they are the ones worth knowing first.
- hindu
- adjectiveOf, or relating to Hinduism, or to Hindus and their culture.
- nehru
- nounJawaharlal Nehru, first Prime Minister of India.
- bantu
- noun(uncountable) The largest African language family of the Niger-Congo group, spoken in much of Sub-Saharan Africa.
- jammu
- nounA major city in Jammu district, Jammu and Kashmir, India, located on the banks of Tawi river, and which serves as the winter capital of Jammu and Kashmir.
- adieu
- nounA farewell, a goodbye; especially a fond farewell, or a lasting or permanent farewell.
- bayou
- nounA swamp; a marshy (stagnant) body of water.
- anjou
- noun(historical) A former county, duchy and province in the northwest of modern-day France.
- haiku
- nounA three-line poem in any language, with five syllables in the first and last lines and seven syllables in the second, usually with an emphasis on the season or a…
- elihu
- nounVarious male characters in the Bible; see Wikipedia.
- corfu
- nounAn island of Greece, one of the Ionian Islands. The ancient name is Corcyra (Κόρκῡρα (Kórkūra), more often Κέρκῡρα (Kérkūra)), in Modern Greek Kérkira (Κέρκυρα…
- sensu
- a Latin word meaning "in the sense of".
- macau
- noun(historical) a former Portuguese colony in modern southern China between 1557 and 1999.
Nouns, verbs and adjectives
Of the 156 words in this list, 138 can be used as a noun, including hindu, nehru, bantu, jammu, visnu. Plenty of words do more than one job: state is a noun, a verb and an adjective depending on how you use it, which is why these numbers add up to more than the list itself.
Using this for Wordle
Puzzle answers lean heavily on everyday words rather than obscure ones, and this list is sorted by exactly that: how often each word actually turns up in written English. So start at the top. On this list that means hindu, nehru, bantu, jammu, visnu, adieu.
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How this list is built
The words come from the Datamuse language API, then get cleaned up, because the raw output is not much use on its own. Each word is checked against an English dictionary, with a frequency floor for anything not in it, so ordinary inflections survive while noise does not. Roman numerals, fragments and vowel-less abbreviations are stripped out.
What is left is ranked by how often each word actually appears in written English. That ordering is the point: it puts the words you might actually want at the top. The full method is on how we build these.
Common questions
How many 5 letter words ending in u are there?
This list holds 156, filtered to real dictionary words and ranked by how common they are. English has more if you count obscure and archaic ones, but they are little use to anybody.
Can a 5 letter word ending in U be a noun?
Yes. 138 of the 156 words on this list can be used as a noun. The breakdown above shows how many work as verbs, adjectives and adverbs too.
How are the words ordered?
By how often each word appears in written English, most common first, so the useful ones are at the top rather than buried under rarities. See how we build these.
Can I search inside the list?
Yes. The filter box narrows the list as you type, and where a list mixes lengths there are buttons to show only words of a given length.