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5-Letter Words Starting with OU

There are 12 five-letter words that start with OU on Word.ws, from ouchy to ouzel. The most common are ought, outer, outta, ounce and outro.

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

All 12 five-letter words that start with OU

  • ouchy13adj. Painful, hurtful; that is expressed by the word ouch.
  • ought9v. Indicating duty or obligation.
  • ounce7n. An avoirdupois ounce, weighing ¹⁄₁₆ of an avoirdupois pound, or...
  • ousia5n. The essential nature or ‘substance’ of God, often as contrasted to the...
  • outdo6v. To excel; go beyond in performance; surpass.
  • outen5adj. Being from without; strange; foreign; peculiar.
  • outer5adj. Outside; external.
  • outgo6v. To go out, to set forth, to set out.
  • outie5n. A navel that protrudes from the abdomen.
  • outro5n. A portion of music at the end of a song.
  • outta5prep. Out of.
  • ouzel14n. A Eurasian blackbird (Turdus merula).
6 rare five-letter words that start with OU

Questions about these words

How many five-letter words that start with OU are there?
Word.ws lists 12 five-letter words that start with OU, plus 6 rare ones.
What are common five-letter words that start with OU?
ought, outer, outta, ounce, outro, outdo, outen and outie.
Which of the five-letter words that start with OU has the highest letter score?
ouzel scores 14 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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