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8 Letter Words Starting With U

There are 1,975 eight-letter words starting with U. 825 of them are playable in Scrabble or Words With Friends, 9 are everyday English, and the highest scorer is unfrizzy at 32 points.

The words

The 400 most common of 1,975, everyday words first. The word finder below reaches all of them.

Everyday words 9

Word-game words 391

What is in this list

Every word carries its Scrabble score; hover one to see its Words With Friends score, which differs because the two games value tiles differently. Both are raw tile totals and exclude double- and triple-letter squares, since those depend on where you put the word rather than on the word itself.

Words in total
1,975
Playable in Scrabble or Words With Friends
825 (42%)
Everyday words
9
Archaic or rare
1,150
Highest Scrabble score
unfrizzy at 32
Average Scrabble score
12.3
Letters that turn up most
U 100%, N 88%, E 75%, D 53%, R 41%, A 40%

Questions

How many 8 letter words start with U?
1,975, across every dictionary this site merges. 9 of those are everyday English, 816 are valid in word games without being words you would say out loud, and 1,150 come from Webster's 1913 and are largely obsolete.
Which of them are valid in Scrabble?
825 appear in ENABLE, the word list Scrabble and Words With Friends programs check against. The 1,150 archaic entries are shown last and labelled, because a word game will usually reject them.
What is the highest-scoring 8 letter word that start with U?
unfrizzy, worth 32 in Scrabble and 33 in Words With Friends. Both are raw tile values, before any double- or triple-letter square.
Which are the most common?
By frequency in ordinary English: ultimate, upcoming, universe, untitled, upgrades, unsigned, updating, uploaded. The list below is in that order, so the words you are most likely to want come first.

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