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Words Ending in OU

There are 28 words ending in OU on Word.ws, from 2 to 8 letters. The most common length is 5 letters (6 words). The words used most often are you, thou, ou, zhou and bayou.

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

2-letter words ending in OU

  • ou2n. A probably extinct species of Hawaiian honeycreeper, Psittirostra...

3-letter words ending in OU

  • fou6adj. Drunk.
  • kou7n. A tree of species Cordia subcordata.
  • mou5part. Sentence-final particle, forming a tag question.
  • sou3n. An old French copper coin equal to one twentieth of a livre or twelve...
  • you6pron. The people spoken, or written to, as an object.

4-letter words ending in OU

  • chou9n. Choux pastry, usually in the form of a small round cake with a sweet...
  • clou6n. Something which holds the greatest attention; the chief point of...
  • thou7v. To address (a person) using the pronoun thou, especially as an...
  • trou4n. Trousers.
  • zhou16n. Synonym of congee, a thick rice porridge.

5-letter words ending in OU

  • bayou10n. A slow-moving, often stagnant creek or river.
  • bijou14n. A jewel.
  • hukou12n. A household registration record that identifies a person as a local...
  • mapou9n. On Haiti, the kapok tree, Ceiba pentandra.
  • musou7n. A subgenre of hack-and-slash usually involving fighting hundreds of...
  • tatou5n. The giant armadillo (Priodontes maximus).

6-letter words ending in OU

  • amadou9n. A spongy, flammable substance prepared from bracket fungi, formerly...
  • boubou10n. A flowing wide-sleeved robe worn by men in much of West Africa, and to...
  • doudou8n. Synonym of dudou.
  • mantou8n. Chinese steamed bun (without any filling).
  • pistou8n. A Provençal cold sauce made from cloves of garlic, fresh basil, and...

7-letter words ending in OU

  • caribou11n. Any of several North American subspecies Rangifer tarandus of the...
  • manitou9n. A god or spirit as the object of religious awe or ritual among some...
  • marabou11n. Leptoptilos crumeniferus, a large wading bird native to Africa, with a...
  • tinamou9n. Any of the birds belonging to the South American family Tinamidae, the...

8-letter words ending in OU

  • kinkajou23n. Potos flavus, a carnivorous mammal of Central America and South America...
  • rougarou9n. A werewolf or werewolf-like creature said to inhabit the swamps in...
66 rare words ending in OU

Questions about these words

How many words ending in OU are there?
Word.ws lists 28 words ending in OU, plus 66 rare ones.
What are common words ending in OU?
you, thou, ou, zhou, bayou, mou, chou and caribou.
Which of the words ending in OU has the highest letter score?
kinkajou scores 23 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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