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

Just 15 7-letter words have U as the 3rd letter and G as the 6th, and 10 of them end in -AGE.

15 wordsTop pick COURAGEHighest score SQUIDGY 21

2 of 15 are everyday words (13%). A mix of familiar words and game-only finds.

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 15 · most-used first

  • COURAGE10
  • SAUSAGE8
  • PLUMAGE12
  • HAULAGE11
  • SQUIDGY21
  • SQUIDGE18
  • PRURIGO10
  • SCUTAGE10
  • MOULAGE10
  • ABUSAGE10
  • AJUTAGE15
  • BLUINGS10
  • PLUSAGE10
  • TAUTOGS8
  • TRUCAGE10
All valid words 15

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

  • ABUSAGE10
  • AJUTAGE15
  • BLUINGS10
  • COURAGE10
  • HAULAGE11
  • MOULAGE10
  • PLUMAGE12
  • PLUSAGE10
  • PRURIGO10
  • SAUSAGE8
  • SCUTAGE10
  • SQUIDGE18
  • SQUIDGY21
  • TAUTOGS8
  • TRUCAGE10
Letters by positionIn 73% of these words the 7th letter is E.
1st letter
  1. S27%
  2. P20%
  3. T13%
2nd letter
  1. L20%
  2. A20%
  3. O13%
4th letter
  1. I20%
  2. S20%
  3. T20%
5th letter
  1. A67%
  2. D13%
  3. N7%
7th letter
  1. E73%
  2. S13%
  3. O7%

Highest-scoring words

Scrabble and Words With Friends points, before board bonuses
WordScrabbleWords With FriendsDictionaries
SQUIDGY2122Collins · NWL
SQUIDGE1820Collins only
AJUTAGE1519Collins only
PLUMAGE1217All three
HAULAGE1113All three
COURAGE1013All three
PRURIGO1013All three
SCUTAGE1013All three
MOULAGE1014All three
BLUINGS1015All three
ABUSAGE1013Collins only
PLUSAGE1014Collins only

This is one of the tightest frames on the site, with only a single slot left after the G. The -AGE family supplies COURAGE, SAUSAGE, PLUMAGE and HAULAGE, and the five stragglers are all different: SQUIDGE, BLUINGS, TAUTOGS, PRURIGO and SQUIDGY.

All 15 at a glance

  • Dictionary counts: Collins 15, NWL2023 10, ENABLE 9.
  • Two words are common: COURAGE and SAUSAGE.
  • The -AGE group also holds MOULAGE, SCUTAGE, ABUSAGE, AJUTAGE, PLUSAGE and TRUCAGE.
  • Eleven words end in E, two in S, and one each in O and Y.
  • The average score is 11.5.

What are the 7-letter words with U 3rd and G 6th?

Ten are -AGE words: COURAGE, SAUSAGE, PLUMAGE, HAULAGE, MOULAGE, SCUTAGE, ABUSAGE, AJUTAGE, PLUSAGE and TRUCAGE. The 11th E-ender is SQUIDGE, and the other four are BLUINGS, TAUTOGS, PRURIGO and SQUIDGY.

Only COURAGE and SAUSAGE are familiar. Everything else on the list is specialist vocabulary, and a few, like HAULAGE and PLUMAGE, are still ordinary English even though they fall outside the top 25,000.

With G in sixth place, the last letter is the only open slot after it. E fills that slot 11 times, S fills it twice, and O and Y appear once each. A stray guess for the last tile is therefore almost always E.

Which one scores most?

SQUIDGY earns 21 and SQUIDGE earns 18, because the 10-point Q and two 2-point Gs do the lifting. AJUTAGE follows at 15 on its J, then PLUMAGE at 12, HAULAGE at 11 and COURAGE at 10.

NWL2023 accepts 10 of the 15 and ENABLE accepts 9. SQUIDGY is in NWL2023 but not ENABLE, SQUIDGE is Collins-only, and COURAGE and PLUMAGE are accepted everywhere.

Suffix trick

Tip

Holding U, G and -AGE tiles? PLUSAGE and TRUCAGE are Collins-only, so save them for Collins games. In NWL2023 and ENABLE, stick with COURAGE, SAUSAGE, PLUMAGE and HAULAGE.

Questions people ask

How many 7-letter words have U third and G sixth?
There are 15 in the tournament dictionaries. Collins accepts all 15, NWL2023 accepts 10 and ENABLE accepts 9. Ten of the 15 end in -AGE, including COURAGE, SAUSAGE and PLUMAGE.
What is the highest-scoring 7-letter word with U 3rd and G 6th?
SQUIDGY scores 21 points, followed by SQUIDGE at 18 and AJUTAGE at 15. PLUMAGE scores 12 and COURAGE 10, so the highest scorers are all rare words, while the common ones sit near the average.
Are there common words with U in third place and G in sixth?
Two: COURAGE and SAUSAGE both rank in the top 25,000 English words. The other 13, including PLUMAGE, HAULAGE and TAUTOGS, are far less frequent, though every one of the 15 is valid in Collins.

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