Words containing U

Our dictionary holds 75,208 words containing u, ranging from 2 to 25 letters. The highest-scoring of them is CARBOXYMETHYLCELLULOSES, worth 47 points in Scrabble.

More of these words begin with S than any other letter — 9,495 of them, about 13% of the list.

3,160 appear in the 20,000 most common English words (4%), including you, your, us, about, but; the remaining 72,048 are rarer finds that still count as valid plays.