Just 67 five letter words end in U, and only one of them has ever been a Wordle answer.
67 words end in U. That's genuinely rare, U is one of the least common ways to close an English word.
Almost every one is a loanword, French, Japanese, or somewhere else entirely. BAYOU from French. HAIKU and KUDZU from Japanese.
Only BAYOU has ever been a real Wordle answer. Just one, out of the whole alphabet's worth of puzzles so far.
Out of 2,315 real Wordle answers, only 1 ends in U, 0.04%. The lowest raw count on this entire page.
BAYOU. That's the whole list. A 1.5% hit rate out of 67 words, and it's happened exactly once.
Don't bet on a U ending. The odds are about as long as they get.
ADIEU. BAYOU. BIJOU. HAIKU. SNAFU.
BAYOU is the only one that's ever been a real Wordle answer. The rest are valid guesses, not likely solutions.
KUDZU tops the list at 19 points, the fast-growing invasive vine. KANZU follows at 18, a traditional East African garment.
HOKKU comes in at 16, an older term for a haiku's opening stanza. A scrabble word finder is genuinely useful here, since almost nobody has these words memorized.
AU- leads narrowly at 10 words, OU- close behind at 9. Then DU- and TU- tied at 7 each.
With a list this small, there's barely a pattern to lean on at all.
U is the rarest way to end a five-letter English word, and Wordle has only used it once.
All 67 words sit below, short enough to scroll in seconds. The one real Wordle answer is marked.
Use the word finder above if you know another letter too.
All 67 words sit below, short enough to scroll in seconds. The one real Wordle answer is marked. Use the word finder above if you know another letter too.
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Data computed from a 12,974-word open-source dictionary and the 2,315-word Wordle answer list. Last updated August 26, 2026.