Word.ws English Dictionary

Words That Start with WU

There are 19 words that start with WU on Word.ws, from 2 to 10 letters. The most common length is 5 letters (7 words). The words used most often are wu, wuss, wurst, wushu and wunderkind.

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

2-letter words that start with WU

  • wu5n. A Chinese shaman.

3-letter words that start with WU

  • wub8n. Love.
  • wud7adj. Mad; crazy.
  • wug7n. An imaginary creature resembling a bird, used in the Wug Test to...

4-letter words that start with WU

  • wudu8n. A ritual washing of the forearms, head, and feet, required after minor...
  • wuff13n. A wolf.
  • wuji14n. The primordial, infinite state of emptiness that existed before the...
  • wuss7v. Only used in wuss out.

5-letter words that start with WU

  • wunna8pron. You (plural); y'all, you guys, you all.
  • wurly11adj. Of an object: derisorily small, tiny; of a person: puny, stunted.
  • wurst8n. A German- or Austrian-style sausage.
  • wushu11n. Any Chinese martial art.
  • wussy11adj. Weak or timid.
  • wuxia15n. A genre of East Asian fiction concerning the adventures of martial...
  • wuzzy29part. Only used in fuzzy-wuzzy.

6-letter words that start with WU

  • wumpus13n. A fictional reclusive monster.
  • wurzel18n. A rural, unsophisticated person; a bumpkin.

8-letter words that start with WU

  • wurtzite20n. A dark brown zinc iron sulfide mineral ((Zn,Fe)S), a form of sphalerite.

10-letter words that start with WU

45 rare words that start with WU

Questions about these words

How many words that start with WU are there?
Word.ws lists 19 words that start with WU, plus 45 rare ones.
What are common words that start with WU?
wu, wuss, wurst, wushu, wunderkind, wud, wub and wussy.
Which of the words that start with WU has the highest letter score?
wuzzy scores 29 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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