5-Letter Words with AU in Them
AU hides in plain sight — audio, cause, fault, laugh. It's less obvious than OU, which makes it easy to miss when you're scanning for vowel pairs.
This page collects every 5-letter word containing AU, computed from our dictionary. If your clues whisper AU, start here.
64exact word count
Amost common start (16 words)
Smost common end (16 words)
2.5avg vowels per word
The full list — 64 words
Letter frequency by position
| Position 1 | A 16 G 8 F 6 |
|---|---|
| Position 2 | A 41 U 17 E 3 |
| Position 3 | U 41 A 7 R 6 |
| Position 4 | N 10 U 9 L 7 |
| Position 5 | S 16 T 12 E 10 |
Computed from the 30 words on this page. Use the most frequent letters for high-information guesses.
- audio
- audit
- auger
- aught
- augur
- aulic
- aulos
- aunts
- aural
- aurar
- auras
- aurei
- auric
- aurum
- autos
- auxin
- beaus
- beaut
- beaux
- cauda
- caulk
- cauls
- cause
- daube
- daubs
- daunt
- faugh
- fault
- fauna
- fauns
- fauve
- fraud
- gauds
- gaudy
- gauge
- gaunt
- gaurs
- gauss
- gauze
- gauzy
- haugh
- haulm
- hauls
- haunt
- jaunt
- kauri
- kraut
- lauds
- laugh
- luaus
- mauls
- maund
- mauve
- pause
- praus
- sauce
- saucy
- sauna
- saury
- saute
- taunt
- taupe
- vault
- vaunt
How this list was made. Every word above was computed from the SCOWL
en_US-large word list (123,247 English words) using the exact filter for this page — no
hand-picking, no padding, no guessing. Counts are exact. The list includes some uncommon
and Scrabble-style words because the source dictionary is comprehensive; that is by design.