4 letter words with AU

Our dictionary holds 64 4 letter words with au, all exactly 4 letters long. The highest-scoring of them is JAUK, worth 15 points in Scrabble.

More of these words begin with A than any other letter — 9 of them, about 14% of the list.

9 appear in the 20,000 most common English words (14%), including auto, paul, aunt, faux, haul; the remaining 55 are rarer finds that still count as valid plays.