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

The complete list of 7-letter words with U as the 3rd letter and M as the 6th has 11 entries, and TSUNAMI is the only common one.

11 wordsTop pick TSUNAMIHighest score SQUIRMY 21

1 of 11 are everyday words (9%). 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.

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Best words to play first 11 · most-used first

  • TSUNAMI9
  • COULOMB13
  • SQUIRMS18
  • NEUROMA9
  • SQUIRMY21
  • TRUISMS9
  • GOURAMI10
  • LEUKOMA13
  • LEUCOMA11
  • CAULOME11
  • SPUTUMS11
All valid words 11

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

  • CAULOME11
  • COULOMB13
  • GOURAMI10
  • LEUCOMA11
  • LEUKOMA13
  • NEUROMA9
  • SPUTUMS11
  • SQUIRMS18
  • SQUIRMY21
  • TRUISMS9
  • TSUNAMI9

Highest-scoring words

Scrabble and Words With Friends points, before board bonuses
WordScrabbleWords With FriendsDictionaries
SQUIRMY2122All three
SQUIRMS1820All three
COULOMB1318All three
LEUKOMA1316All three
LEUCOMA1115All three
CAULOME1115Collins only
SPUTUMS1115NWL only
GOURAMI1013All three
TSUNAMI912All three
NEUROMA912All three
TRUISMS911All three

With so few words, the whole frame fits in a line: TSUNAMI, GOURAMI, COULOMB, NEUROMA, LEUKOMA, LEUCOMA, CAULOME, SQUIRMS, SQUIRMY, TRUISMS and SPUTUMS. Nine of those are accepted by all three major dictionaries, so most are safe choices wherever you play.

What the 11 words have in common

  • Nine words, from TSUNAMI to TRUISMS, are accepted in Collins, NWL2023 and ENABLE alike.
  • CAULOME is Collins-only, and SPUTUMS is NWL2023-only.
  • Endings: -OMA has 3 words, -AMI has 2, and S finishes 3 more.
  • The average score is 12.3, with SQUIRMY at 21.
  • S opens 3 words, while C, L and T open 2 each.

Which 7-letter words with U 3rd and M 6th score highest?

SQUIRMY scores 21, built on the 10-point Q and the final Y. SQUIRMS follows at 18, then COULOMB and LEUKOMA at 13, and LEUCOMA and CAULOME at 11.

SQUIRMY and SQUIRMS differ by one letter, so a single Q-U-I-R-M core covers both, and both are valid everywhere.

Below the Q words, points come from lower-value tiles. LEUKOMA takes 5 from its K, and COULOMB takes 3 each from its C, M and B.

What do the -OMA and -AMI endings add?

NEUROMA, LEUKOMA and LEUCOMA are the -OMA trio, and TSUNAMI and GOURAMI make the -AMI pair. Only the second pair contains an everyday word: TSUNAMI.

COULOMB is the physics unit of charge. It is the only word in the frame that ends in B, and it holds its own at 13 points.

A final S marks three more: SQUIRMS, TRUISMS and SPUTUMS. That leaves COULOMB, ending in B, and SQUIRMY, ending in Y, as the only two words that do not close with a vowel or S.

Where the dictionaries disagree

Note

SPUTUMS is accepted by NWL2023 but not by Collins, while CAULOME works only in Collins. For any other word in the frame, the dictionary does not matter.

Questions people ask

How many 7-letter words have U as the third letter and M as the sixth?
Eleven. Collins accepts 10, NWL2023 accepts 10 and ENABLE accepts 9. The odd ones out are CAULOME, which is Collins-only, and SPUTUMS, which is NWL2023-only.
What is the highest-scoring word with U 3rd and M 6th?
SQUIRMY scores 21 points, ahead of SQUIRMS at 18 and COULOMB and LEUKOMA at 13. The Q is worth 10 and the Y worth 4, which explains the lead.
Is TSUNAMI the only common word with U third and M sixth?
Yes. TSUNAMI is the single entry among the 11 that ranks in the top 25,000 English words. GOURAMI and TRUISMS are real words too but are far less frequent in print.

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