5-Letter Words Containing U and W
There are 47 five-letter words containing U and W, including 6 common puzzle answers. These are the words with the letters U and W anywhere in the word, in any order. A handy list for Wordle and other five-letter word games.
Popular 5-Letter Puzzle Words Containing U and W
Common puzzle answers are everyday words of the kind word puzzles choose as solutions, most common first. Plurals and rare words are valid guesses but rarely answers, so they're listed separately below.
- WOULD Used to indicate a conditional or hypothetical action or state
- AWFUL Very bad or unpleasant
- WOUND An injury to living tissue, especially involving a cut or break in the skin
- SWUNG Past tense of swing, to move back and forth or in a curve
- UNWED Not married
- WRUNG Twisted and squeezed something to extract liquid
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Useful Pattern Information
- Most common first letter: W (57%), U (21%), S (6%)
- Most common last letter: S (23%), W (15%), D (6%)
- Most common additional vowel: A, in 45% of these words
- U is most often the third letter (28%)
- W is most often the first letter (57%)
- Letters that most often appear alongside: A, S, N, O, L
- Most have 2 vowels (77%)
- 23% contain a repeated letter
- 6 of the 47 are common puzzle answers (13%)
Other Valid Words
41 additional dictionary words contain both U and W — valid guesses, though rarely answers. Most common first.
- WAUGH
- SQUAW
- WAGYU
- WURST
- WUSHU
- WUSSY
- WUXIA
- UNOWN
- VROUW
- WHUMP
- WAMUS
- WAURS
- WAULS
- WHAUR
- SWOUN
- WHUPS
- WOJUS
- QUAWS
- WUSES
- WAUKS
- WOFUL
- WAULK
- WHAUP
- WAUFF
- WUNGA
- WULLS
- UNSEW
- UNWIT
- FULWA
- DWAUM
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- UNSAW
- UNWON
- UNWET
- WUDUS
- QUAWK
- UNLAW
- WUFFS
- WUDDY
- KAWAU
- UNMEW
- UPBOW
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Generated from the TurnWord word database, the dictionary behind the Word Solver and Word Bot. Common puzzle answers are our curated answer list, the everyday words word puzzles tend to use as answers — not the official answer list of any game; every other word is a valid guess. Counts and statistics are computed from this list. Word database updated September 19, 2026.