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.
Below: every 5-letter word containing OU, computed from our dictionary with an exact count. Scan it for the shape of your remaining clues.
116exact word count
Smost common start (15 words)
Tmost common end (20 words)
2.4avg vowels per word
The full list — 116 words
about
afoul
aloud
amour
anjou
bayou
bijou
bough
boule
bound
bourn
bouse
cloud
clout
couch
cough
could
count
coupe
court
couth
croup
douai
douay
doubs
doubt
douce
dough
doula
douma
douro
douse
flour
flout
found
fount
ghoul
gouda
goudy
gouge
gould
gourd
gouty
group
grout
hough
houma
hound
houri
house
joule
joust
khoum
knout
lough
louie
louis
loupe
louse
lousy
mound
mount
mourn
mouse
mousy
mouth
ought
ouija
oujda
ounce
ouphe
ousel
outdo
outgo
outre
outta
ouzel
pious
pouch
poult
pound
pouty
proud
raoul
rouen
rouge
rough
round
rouse
roust
route
scour
scout
seoul
shout
sioux
snout
sough
sound
soupy
sousa
souse
south
spout
stoup
stout
touch
tough
tours
trout
vouch
vouge
would
wound
young
youth
How this list was made. Every word above was computed from the SCOWL
en_US-large word list (73,959 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.