5-Letter Words with OU in Them
OU is one of the most common vowel pairs in English — words like house, sound and count turn up constantly in Wordle. When your tiles show O and U together, this is the list you want.
Note: this page lists words where O and U appear adjacent (the OU pair). For words containing O and U anywhere, use the solver with O and U in "Must contain". Below: every 5-letter word containing OU, computed from our dictionary with an exact count. Scan it for the shape of your remaining clues.
126exact word count
Smost common start (16 words)
Smost common end (28 words)
2.3avg vowels per word
The full list — 126 words
Letter frequency by position
| Position 1 | S 16 O 13 C 11 |
|---|---|
| Position 2 | O 86 U 13 L 5 |
| Position 3 | U 86 O 25 T 6 |
| Position 4 | U 25 T 14 N 13 |
| Position 5 | S 28 T 20 E 19 |
Computed from the 40 words on this page. Use the most frequent letters for high-information guesses.
- about
- afoul
- aloud
- amour
- bayou
- bijou
- bough
- boule
- bound
- bourn
- bouse
- bouts
- cloud
- clout
- couch
- cough
- could
- count
- coupe
- coups
- court
- couth
- croup
- doubt
- douce
- dough
- doula
- douma
- douse
- flour
- flout
- fouls
- found
- fount
- fours
- ghoul
- gouge
- gourd
- gouty
- group
- grout
- hough
- hound
- houri
- hours
- house
- joule
- joust
- khoum
- knout
- lough
- louis
- loupe
- loups
- lours
- louse
- lousy
- louts
- meous
- moues
- mound
- mount
- mourn
- mouse
- mousy
- mouth
- nouns
- ought
- ounce
- ouphe
- ousel
- ousts
- outdo
- outed
- outer
- outgo
- outre
- outta
- ouzel
- ouzos
- pious
- pouch
- poufs
- poult
- pound
- pours
- pouts
- pouty
- proud
- roues
- rouge
- rough
- round
- roups
- rouse
- roust
- route
- routs
- scour
- scout
- shout
- snout
- sough
- souks
- souls
- sound
- soups
- soupy
- sours
- souse
- south
- spout
- stoup
- stout
- touch
- tough
- tours
- touts
- trout
- vouch
- vouge
- would
- wound
- young
- yours
- youth
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.