Words Ending in RU

There are 24 words ending in RU on Word.ws, from 3 to 8 letters. The most common length is 4 letters (12 words). The words used most often are guru, maru, bru, cru and uhuru.

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

3-letter words ending in RU

bru5n. Bro; bra; term of address for a man.
cru5n. A vineyard or group of vineyards in France, especially one having a...
iru3n. A West African condiment made from fermented locust beans.

4-letter words ending in RU

baru6n. A fibrous substance derived from the sugar palm (Arenga pinnata) used...
ebru6n. A traditional marbled paper art of Turkey.
ecru6n. A beige colour.
furu7n. A person who fraudulently poses as a guru.
guru5n. In Indian traditions: a spiritual teacher who transmits knowledge to a...
koru8n. A spiral shape that symbolizes growth, strength and peace, used in...
kuru8n. A chronic, progressive, fatal central nervous system disease found...
maru6n. A Japanese ship, especially a merchant ship.
muru6n. An act of retaliatory theft among the Maori.
niru4n. A company within the military of the Qing dynasty.
nuru4n. A Japanese form of body-to-body massage in which the masseur and client...
ruru4n. The morepork.

5-letter words ending in RU

amaru7n. A double-headed serpent in Inca and other Andean mythology.
chiru10n. The Tibetan antelope, Pantholops hodgsonii.
gyaru9n. A Japanese subculture and fashion style popular in the 1990s, typically...
uhuru8n. Freedom.

6-letter words ending in RU

jabiru15n. A species of bird Jabiru mycteria in the monotypic genus Jabiru, of the...
kereru10n. The New Zealand pigeon (species Hemiphaga novaeseelandiae).

7-letter words ending in RU

candiru10n. A small parasitic catfish, Vandellia cirrhosa, native to the Amazon...
satguru8n. In Hinduism and Buddhism, a great teacher; a supremely wise guide.

8-letter words ending in RU

ashigaru12n. A feudal Japanese footsoldier.

41 rare words ending in RU

Questions about these words

How many words ending in RU are there?: Word.ws lists 24 words ending in RU, plus 41 rare ones.
What are common words ending in RU?: guru, maru, bru, cru, uhuru, baru, iru and kuru.
Which of the words ending in RU has the highest letter score?: jabiru 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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