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7-letter words with U as the 2nd letter and Y as the 5th letter

12 7-letter words have U as the 2nd letter and Y as the 5th, with KUFIYAH at 20 points and SUBTYPE at 14 the strongest plays.

12 wordsTop pick SUBTYPEHighest score KUFIYAH 20

With U in 2nd place, I is the most common 5th letter (868 words). The bar under each letter shows the size of its list.

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Best words to play first 12 · most-used first

  • SUBTYPE14
  • TUTOYER10
  • BUGEYES13
  • EUSTYLE10
  • KUFIYAH20
  • LUNGYIS11
  • MUDEYES13
  • OUGIYAS11
  • OUTHYRE13
  • RUFIYAA13
  • TUILYIE10
  • TUTOYED11
All valid words 12

A to Z. Includes rare and Collins-only words. Linked tiles open the word's meaning, score and rhymes.

  • BUGEYES13
  • EUSTYLE10
  • KUFIYAH20
  • LUNGYIS11
  • MUDEYES13
  • OUGIYAS11
  • OUTHYRE13
  • RUFIYAA13
  • SUBTYPE14
  • TUILYIE10
  • TUTOYED11
  • TUTOYER10
Letters by positionIn 33% of these words the 6th letter is E.
1st letter
  1. T25%
  2. O17%
  3. S8%
3rd letter
  1. T25%
  2. F17%
  3. G17%
4th letter
  1. I25%
  2. T17%
  3. E17%
6th letter
  1. E33%
  2. A25%
  3. I17%
7th letter
  1. E33%
  2. S33%
  3. A8%

Highest-scoring words

Scrabble and Words With Friends points, before board bonuses
WordScrabbleWords With FriendsDictionaries
KUFIYAH2019Collins only
SUBTYPE1416All three
BUGEYES1315All three
MUDEYES1314Collins only
RUFIYAA1313All three
OUTHYRE1312Collins only
OUGIYAS1112NWL only
LUNGYIS1114All three
TUTOYED1111All three
TUTOYER1010All three
TUILYIE1011Collins only
EUSTYLE1011Collins only

This frame has no common words at all, so every entry is a Scrabble word rather than a conversational one. Many are loanwords for clothing, currency and verbs borrowed from French, which is why vocabulary beats pattern-spotting here. ENABLE accepts only 6 of the 12, which makes dictionary choice the main decision.

All twelve U-and-Y words at a glance

  • 12 words fit: Collins accepts 11, NWL2023 7, ENABLE 6.
  • None is rated common, and the average score is 12.4.
  • KUFIYAH scores 20, SUBTYPE 14, and BUGEYES, MUDEYES and RUFIYAA 13.
  • T opens 3 words and O opens 2.
  • S and E each end 4 words.

What do the loanwords mean?

KUFIYAH is a Middle Eastern headdress, and RUFIYAA and OUGIYAS are currency units of the Maldives and Mauritania. LUNGYIS is the plural of LUNGYI, a Burmese wraparound garment.

RUFIYAA ends in a double A, the quickest way to recognise it, and it scores 13 like BUGEYES and MUDEYES, so all three tie for third.

TUTOYED and TUTOYER come from the French habit of addressing a friend as tu. Both forms are valid in ENABLE, NWL2023 and Collins.

Which words are easiest to remember?

SUBTYPE is the only everyday-looking entry, and it scores 14. BUGEYES and MUDEYES follow a tidy pattern, each pairing a short word with EYES.

BUGEYES is accepted by every major list, while MUDEYES is Collins only. The rest, TUILYIE, EUSTYLE and OUTHYRE, are specialist or dialect entries.

Five of the twelve are Collins-only: MUDEYES, KUFIYAH, TUILYIE, EUSTYLE and OUTHYRE. OUGIYAS goes the other way and is accepted by NWL2023 alone, at 11 points.

Which words are safe in every dictionary?

Tip

SUBTYPE, RUFIYAA, BUGEYES, LUNGYIS, TUTOYED and TUTOYER are in all three lists. KUFIYAH at 20 is Collins only, so it is worth the risk in Collins games and not elsewhere.

Questions people ask

How many 7-letter words have U second and Y fifth?
12 seven-letter words have U as the 2nd letter and Y as the 5th. Collins accepts 11 of them, NWL2023 accepts 7 and ENABLE accepts 6. None is rated a common word.
What is the highest-scoring word with U second and Y fifth?
KUFIYAH scores 20 points, helped by the 5-point K, 4-point F, 4-point Y and 4-point H. SUBTYPE follows at 14. KUFIYAH is valid in Collins only.
Which of these words end in -YES?
BUGEYES and MUDEYES both end in -YES, and both score 13. BUGEYES is valid in ENABLE, NWL2023 and Collins, while MUDEYES is valid in Collins only.

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