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3-Letter Words Ending in U

There are 41 three-letter words ending in U on Word.ws, from ahu to zhu. The most common are you, flu, chu, tau and lau.

Meanings from Wiktionary. Not an official Scrabble, Words With Friends or Wordle word list.

All 41 three-letter words ending in U

A

  • ahu6n. The goitered gazelle, Gazella subgutturosa.
  • ayu6n. A sweetfish, an amphidromous game fish of East Asia of species...

B

  • bru5n. Bro; bra; term of address for a man.

C

  • chu8interj. The sound of a kiss.
  • cru5n. A vineyard or group of vineyards in France, especially one having a...

E

  • eau3n. Water.
  • ecu5n. The European Currency Unit (symbol ₠), a currency used in the European...
  • emu5n. A large flightless bird native to Australia, Dromaius novaehollandiae.

F

  • feu6n. Land held in feudal tenure.
  • flu6n. Influenza.
  • fou6adj. Drunk.

G

  • gau4n. A prayer box or small container worn as jewelry and containing an...
  • gnu4n. A large antelope of the genus Connochaetes, native to Africa, having...

I

  • ibu5n. Ibuprofen.
  • imu5n. A traditional Hawaiian underground oven, consisting mainly of a hole in...
  • ipu5n. A percussion instrument made from hollowed gourds, often used to...
  • iru3n. A West African condiment made from fermented locust beans.
  • isu3n. An individual seat in the loft-like balcony of a sumo arena.

J

  • jiu10n. Any Chinese alcoholic beverage.

K

  • khu10n. Synonym of akh (“a spirit of the dead that has successfully completed...
  • kou7n. A tree of species Cordia subcordata.
  • kyu10n. A grade or rank in various Japanese activities such as martial arts...

L

  • lau3v. To place upon; to put down onto.
  • leu3n. The unit of currency of Romania, equal to one hundred bani.

M

  • meu5n. Meum athamanticum, a European herb.
  • mou5part. Sentence-final particle, forming a tag question.

N

  • nau3n. Synonym of carrack.
  • neu3n. Synonym of HER-2.
  • niu3n. A tall pole with yardarms from which hung ropes, circled by worshippers...

O

  • ohu6n. A kind of rural commune established in New Zealand under a government...

P

  • pau5adj. Done; over; finished.

R

  • ryu6n. A Japanese school of a specific discipline, usually martial arts.

S

  • sou3n. An old French copper coin equal to one twentieth of a livre or twelve...

T

  • tau3n. The letter Τ /τ in the Greek alphabet; being the nineteenth letter of...

U

  • udu4n. A jug-shaped percussion instrument of Igbo origin.
  • ulu3n. An all-purpose knife traditionally used by Yup'ik, Inuit, and Aleut...
  • umu5n. An earth oven used in New Zealand, Samoa, and other Pacific islands...
  • utu3n. Compensation for a wrong suffered; reciprocal exchange or payment...

W

  • wau6n. Digamma (Ϝ/ϝ).

Y

  • you6pron. The people spoken, or written to, as an object.

Z

  • zhu15n. An ancient Chinese unit of weight, notionally equivalent to 100 millet...

Questions about these words

How many three-letter words ending in U are there?
Word.ws lists 41 three-letter words ending in U.
What are common three-letter words ending in U?
you, flu, chu, tau, lau, ryu, eau and zhu.
Which of the three-letter words ending in U has the highest letter score?
zhu scores 15 points with the standard letter tile values.

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Word lists and meanings adapted from the Wiktionary entry of each word. Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws left out names, abbreviations, misspellings and offensive words, and ordered the most common words by how often they appear in English (wordfreq). Meanings from Wiktionary; this is not an official Scrabble, Words With Friends or Wordle word list. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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