5-letter words with U as the 4th letter and R as the 5th letter

This pattern locks the final two tiles into U-R, leaving three starting letters to sort through. S begins five entries, more than any other first letter, while only three words rank among common English vocabulary. OCCUR, FLOUR and FEMUR are the most recognizable choices; many of the remaining matches are rare or regional.

The U-R pattern at a glance

• There are 23 five-letter matches with U fourth and R fifth.
• S is the most frequent first letter, with five matches.
• OCCUR, FLOUR and FEMUR are among the three common words.
• WHAUR leads the scoring list at 11 points.
• Nine matching words also appear in the Wordle answer set.

How many of these words work in word games?

Dictionary coverage varies: Collins includes 22 words, NWL2023 includes 19, and ENABLE includes 17. OCCUR and FLOUR are familiar options, but the full set also contains unusual entries such as KNAUR, MOHUR and WHAUR.

Nine words from this pattern appear in the Wordle answer set, and all nine are also in at least one tournament dictionary. That overlap makes the fixed U-R ending relevant to Wordle, though the answer list is only a portion of the 23 matches.

5-letter words with U as the 4th letter and R as the 5th letter

WHAUR scores 11 points, ahead of FEMUR and MOHUR at 10. OCCUR and KNAUR each score 9, while FLOUR scores 8. The average score is 7.5, so the rarest-looking word is also the top scorer here.

For a clue-solving shortcut, test S as the first letter first: five matches begin there, compared with two each for A, D, F, G, O and R. The U-R ending is far less productive than U-S, which has 139 five-letter matches; the U-R pattern is a narrow filter, not a broad word bank.

Only three of the 23 matches are common, and 17 have definitions in the available word resources. Check your game's word list before playing an obscure option such as WHAUR or MOHUR; a high score does not guarantee acceptance.