7-letter words with U as the 3rd letter and P as the 5th letter

Put M in fourth place and you are inside the largest family. The other 18 words scatter: six double the P, as in SCUPPER and CHUPPAH, and a handful use R, L or I before the P. Past-tense -PED words dominate the endings at 16.

Quick profile of the U-P fifth list

• Collins accepts 44 of the 46, NWL2023 accepts 37 and ENABLE accepts 31.
• Only one word is common: TRUMPET.
• -PED closes 16 words, -PER closes 9 and -PET closes 3.
• C starts 13 words, S starts 10, P starts 6, and G and T start 4 each.
• A typical word scores 13.6.

Which 7-letter words with U 3rd and P 5th use -UMP-?

Twenty-eight do, which is 61 percent of the frame. SLUMPED, STUMPED, THUMPED, TRUMPED, CLUMPED, PLUMPED and CHUMPED fill the -PED group, while TRUMPET, CRUMPLE, THUMPER, PLUMPER and CRUMPET take the other endings.

The same 28 words appear on the page for U third with M fourth, so learning one list teaches you both.

Inside the family, PL- and CR- are the biggest openers with 5 words each: PLUMPED, PLUMPEN, PLUMPER and CRUMPET, CRUMPLE, CRUMPED among them.

What are the words without an M?

Six double the P: SCUPPER, CRUPPER, CHUPPAH, CHUPPAS, WHUPPED and CHUPPOT. The rest include USURPED, USURPER, SLURPED, SCULPTS, SCULPIN, ARUSPEX and GLUEPOT.

CHUPPAH scores 19 and WHUPPED, GRUMPHY and WHUMPED score 18. Nine words, including CRUMPER, EQUIPES, FRUMPLE and GRUMPHS, are valid only in Collins.

EQUIPES gets its 18 from a 10-point Q, while WHUPPED and WHUMPED each get 18 from a 4-point W and a 4-point H. Of the three, only WHUMPED is accepted by all three dictionaries.

Choosing between -PED and -PER