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7-letter words with U as the 3rd letter and C as the 6th letter

12 7-letter words have U as the 3rd letter and C as the 6th, and SQUELCH, SQUINCH and SQUITCH all score 21 points.

12 wordsTop pick FLUENCYHighest score SQUELCH 21

With U in 3rd place, E is the most common 6th letter (671 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

  • FLUENCY15
  • TRUANCY12
  • SQUELCH21
  • FLUENCE12
  • SQUINCH21
  • SQUACCO20
  • SQUITCH21
  • TOURACO9
  • NAUTICS9
  • NOURICE9
  • SCULTCH14
  • SOUROCK13
All valid words 12

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

  • FLUENCE12
  • FLUENCY15
  • NAUTICS9
  • NOURICE9
  • SCULTCH14
  • SOUROCK13
  • SQUACCO20
  • SQUELCH21
  • SQUINCH21
  • SQUITCH21
  • TOURACO9
  • TRUANCY12
Letters by positionIn 50% of these words the 1st letter is S.
1st letter
  1. S50%
  2. F17%
  3. T17%
2nd letter
  1. Q33%
  2. O25%
  3. L17%
4th letter
  1. E25%
  2. R25%
  3. I17%
5th letter
  1. N33%
  2. I17%
  3. T17%
7th letter
  1. H33%
  2. Y17%
  3. O17%

Highest-scoring words

Scrabble and Words With Friends points, before board bonuses
WordScrabbleWords With FriendsDictionaries
SQUELCH2123All three
SQUINCH2123All three
SQUITCH2122Collins only
SQUACCO2023Collins only
FLUENCY1518All three
SCULTCH1417Collins · NWL
SOUROCK1315Collins only
TRUANCY1214All three
FLUENCE1216Collins only
TOURACO911All three
NAUTICS912Collins only
NOURICE912Collins only

The whole frame is twelve words, so you can learn it outright. Four end in -CH, two in -CY, and the rest each take a different tail. SQU- opens a third of the list, which pushes the average score to 14.7, but nothing in it is rated common.

The complete U-3rd, C-6th list

  • 12 words: Collins takes all of them, NWL2023 6 and ENABLE 5.
  • SQU- begins 4 of them, FLU- begins 2, and none is rated common.
  • SQUELCH, SQUINCH and SQUITCH make 21, and SQUACCO makes 20.
  • FLUENCY scores 15 and the average is 14.7.
  • H ends 4 words, and E, O and Y end 2 each.

What are the SQU- words?

SQUELCH, SQUINCH, SQUITCH and SQUACCO share the SQU- start. SQUELCH is the only one most players have met, as a sound a boot makes in mud, and it is valid in Collins, NWL2023 and ENABLE.

SQUINCH is a small arch in architecture and is also accepted by all three lists, while SQUITCH and SQUACCO appear in Collins only.

Which of the remaining eight are playable?

FLUENCY and TRUANCY are the practical pair, valid in every major list and scoring 15 and 12. TOURACO, a bird, is also accepted everywhere at 9 points.

FLUENCE is a Collins variant of FLUENCY. SCULTCH, NAUTICS, NOURICE and SOUROCK are the other four entries, and all of them are obscure. SCULTCH, scoring 14, is the only one of the four that NWL2023 accepts.

By final two letters, -CH takes four words, -CY two, -CO two (SQUACCO and TOURACO), -CE two (FLUENCE and NOURICE), and NAUTICS and SOUROCK end in -CS and -CK. Those six endings cover all twelve.

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Tip

Of the four 20-plus scorers, only SQUELCH and SQUINCH survive in NWL2023 and ENABLE. SQUITCH and SQUACCO need Collins, so confirm the list your game uses first.

Questions people ask

How many 7-letter words have U third and C sixth?
12 seven-letter words have U as the 3rd letter and C as the 6th. Collins accepts all 12, NWL2023 accepts 6 and ENABLE accepts 5. None of them is rated common.
Which of these words score highest?
SQUELCH, SQUINCH and SQUITCH score 21 points each, and SQUACCO scores 20. FLUENCY follows at 15. The 10-point Q in each SQU- word provides most of the score.
What 7-letter words end in -CY with U third?
FLUENCY and TRUANCY are the only two. Both are valid in Collins, NWL2023 and ENABLE, and both are standard nouns, though neither ranks among the common words. FLUENCY scores 15 and TRUANCY 12.

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