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

Only 17 7-letter words have U as the 3rd letter and H as the 6th, and ten of them finish with a Y.

17 wordsTop pick CRUNCHYHighest score SQUISHY 22

1 of 17 are everyday words (6%). Mostly rare words: great for Scrabble, tough for daily puzzles.

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.

  • Length
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Best words to play first 17 · most-used first

  • CRUNCHY17
  • SQUISHY22
  • RAUNCHY15
  • FOURTHS13
  • GOUACHE13
  • CHURCHY20
  • PAUNCHY17
  • SQUASHY22
  • CLUTCHY17
  • BRUHAHA15
  • BOURKHA16
  • DOURAHS11
  • GRUMPHS15
  • GRUMPHY18
  • HOUDAHS14
  • SLUTCHY15
  • SMUTCHY17
All valid words 17

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

  • BOURKHA16
  • BRUHAHA15
  • CHURCHY20
  • CLUTCHY17
  • CRUNCHY17
  • DOURAHS11
  • FOURTHS13
  • GOUACHE13
  • GRUMPHS15
  • GRUMPHY18
  • HOUDAHS14
  • PAUNCHY17
  • RAUNCHY15
  • SLUTCHY15
  • SMUTCHY17
  • SQUASHY22
  • SQUISHY22
Letters by positionIn 59% of these words the 7th letter is Y.
1st letter
  1. S24%
  2. C18%
  3. G18%
2nd letter
  1. O29%
  2. R24%
  3. L12%
4th letter
  1. R24%
  2. T18%
  3. N18%
5th letter
  1. C47%
  2. A18%
  3. P12%
7th letter
  1. Y59%
  2. S24%
  3. A12%

Highest-scoring words

Scrabble and Words With Friends points, before board bonuses
WordScrabbleWords With FriendsDictionaries
SQUISHY2221All three
SQUASHY2221All three
CHURCHY2020All three
GRUMPHY1820All three
CRUNCHY1719All three
PAUNCHY1719All three
CLUTCHY1719All three
SMUTCHY1718All three
BOURKHA1617Collins only
RAUNCHY1516All three
BRUHAHA1515Collins only
GRUMPHS1518Collins only

This small frame is a points bargain. The average word scores 16.3, because H and Y are each worth 4 and many entries carry both. SQUISHY and SQUASHY lead at 22, ahead of CHURCHY at 20 and GRUMPHY at 18.

Counts for the U-H sixth list

  • Collins lists 17 words, while NWL2023 and ENABLE each list 13.
  • Just one is common: CRUNCHY, which ranks in the top 25,000 English words.
  • Last letters: Y ends 10 words, S ends 4, A ends 2 and E ends 1.
  • First letters: S opens 4, C and G open 3 each, B opens 2.
  • Average score is 16.3.

Which 7-letter words with U 3rd and H 6th end in -CHY?

Seven do, among them CRUNCHY, RAUNCHY, CHURCHY, PAUNCHY, CLUTCHY and SMUTCHY. Add the two -SHY words, SQUISHY and SQUASHY, and nine of the ten Y-enders are explained.

The tenth is GRUMPHY, which ends in -PHY and scores 18. Only CRUNCHY is among the top 25,000 English words, so most of the others are words you play from a rack rather than words you guess from habit.

SQUISHY and SQUASHY differ by a single vowel, so if you hold the Q and U together, swapping I for A covers both at the same 22 points.

What are the words that do not end in Y?

GOUACHE is the one E-ender, a painting medium. Two end in A (BRUHAHA and BOURKHA), and four end in S: FOURTHS, DOURAHS, HOUDAHS and GRUMPHS.

FOURTHS is the one with a plain meaning, a plural of an ordinal number. It fits the frame because the TH sits just before the final S, which pushes the H to sixth place.

Scoring note and dictionary risk

Note

SQUISHY and SQUASHY score 22 thanks to a 10-point Q. BOURKHA, BRUHAHA and GRUMPHS are Collins-only, as is one of the -CHY words, so stick with the other 13 in NWL2023 and ENABLE games.

Questions people ask

How many 7-letter words have U as the third letter and H as the sixth?
Seventeen words fit. All 17 are valid in Collins, and NWL2023 and ENABLE each accept 13. Ten of the 17 end in Y, with -CHY the biggest ending at 7 words.
What is the highest-scoring word with U in 3rd and H in 6th place?
SQUISHY and SQUASHY tie at 22 points, with CHURCHY at 20, GRUMPHY at 18, and CRUNCHY and PAUNCHY at 17. All of them lean on the 4-point H and Y, which is why the frame averages 16.3.
Is CRUNCHY the only common word that fits U 3rd and H 6th?
Yes. CRUNCHY is the only one of the 17 that ranks in the top 25,000 English words. RAUNCHY, PAUNCHY, SQUISHY and SQUASHY are real words too, but they are less frequent in writing.

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