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3-Letter Words Starting with U

There are 35 three-letter words that start with U on Word.ws, from ube to uzi. The most common are use, ugh, und, uni and ufo.

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

All 35 three-letter words that start with U

  • ube5n. The purple yam, Dioscorea alata.
  • uce5n. (chiefly among Samoan-Americans) Brother (a male comrade or friend)....
  • udo4n. Japanese spikenard, particularly the cooked shoots used as food.
  • udu4n. A jug-shaped percussion instrument of Igbo origin.
  • ufo6n. A UFO.
  • ugg5n. Ugg boot.
  • ugh7interj. Used to express repugnance, disgust, or annoyance.
  • uji10n. A Japanese clan or kin group of the Kofun period.
  • uke7n. The training partner against whom tori performs a move.
  • ule3n. A Mexican and Central American tree (Castilla elastica), related to the...
  • ulp5interj. The sound of a person gulping in fear.
  • ult3n. The final (ultimate) syllable of a word.
  • ulu3n. An all-purpose knife traditionally used by Yup'ik, Inuit, and Aleut...
  • ume5n. Chinese plum, a species of Asian plum, Prunus mume.
  • ump7n. An umpire.
  • umu5n. An earth oven used in New Zealand, Samoa, and other Pacific islands...
  • unc5n. A phenotype of Caenorhabditis elegans that moves in an uncoordinated...
  • und4n. A billow- or wave-like marking.
  • uni3n. Sea urchin eaten as sushi.
  • uno3interj. A term said when the number of cards in player’s hand is reduced to...
  • upo5n. Lagenaria siceraria; a vine grown for its fruit.
  • ure3n. Use, practise, exercise.
  • urf6n. The customs of an Arab society, used in jurisprudence when the Qur'an...
  • urn3n. A vase with a footed base.
  • uro3n. A small, irregularly-shaped wound made in the trunk of a bonsai tree...
  • urp5interj. The sound of a burp.
  • urs3n. The anniversary of the death of a Sufi saint, celebrated with music and...
  • use3n. The act of using.
  • ush6v. To usher: to perform the action of an usher: to escort.
  • uta3n. Cutaneous leishmaniasis.
  • ute3n. A small vehicle based on the same platform as a family car but with a...
  • utu3n. Compensation for a wrong suffered; reciprocal exchange or payment...
  • utz12v. To prod; goad; push someone's buttons.
  • uva6n. Grape, raisin, grape-like fruit.
  • uzi12n. A type of compact submachine gun, having a caliber of 9 millimeters...
2 rare three-letter words that start with U

Questions about these words

How many three-letter words that start with U are there?
Word.ws lists 35 three-letter words that start with U, plus 2 rare ones.
What are common three-letter words that start with U?
use, ugh, und, uni, ufo, unc, uno and urn.
Which of the three-letter words that start with U has the highest letter score?
uzi scores 12 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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