5-letter words with OU in the middle
Delve into the fascinating world of words where the letter OU is nestled in the middle. This section highlights the unique placement of OU in various words, illustrating how it contributes to their sound and meaning. From everyday language to more unusual terms, discover how OU in the middle shapes the essence of these words.
| Word | Points | Definition | Sentence example |
|---|---|---|---|
| about | 7 | used of movement to or among many different places or in no particular direction | wandering about with no place to go |
| would | 9 | - | - |
| could | 8 | - | - |
| house | 8 | provide housing for | The immigrants were housed in a new development outside the town |
| found | 9 | use as a basis for; found on | - |
| young | 9 | (of crops) harvested at an early stage of development; before complete maturity | young corn |
| yours | 8 | - | - |
| hours | 8 | an indefinite period of time | they talked for hours |
| touch | 10 | a distinguishing style | this room needs a woman's touch |
| sound | 6 | (phonetics) an individual sound unit of speech without concern as to whether or not it is a phoneme of some language | - |
| mouth | 10 | express in speech | - |
| group | 8 | a set that is closed, associative, has an identity element and every element has an inverse | - |
| round | 6 | a regular route for a sentry or policeman | - |
| court | 7 | Australian woman tennis player who won many major championships (born in 1947) | - |
| count | 7 | put into a group | The academy counts several Nobel Prize winners among its members |
| tough | 9 | making great mental demands; hard to comprehend or solve or believe | - |
| proud | 8 | having or displaying great dignity or nobility | proud alpine peaks |
| south | 8 | the cardinal compass point that is at 180 degrees | - |
| doubt | 8 | uncertainty about the truth or factuality or existence of something | - |
| rough | 9 | unpleasantly stern | the nomad life is rough and hazardous |
| youth | 11 | an early period of development | during the youth of the project |
| wound | 9 | a casualty to military personnel resulting from combat | - |
| shout | 8 | utter a sudden loud cry | - |
| louis | 5 | United States prizefighter who was world heavyweight champion for 12 years (1914-1981) | - |
| route | 5 | an established line of travel or access | - |
| mouse | 7 | to go stealthily or furtively | - |
| bound | 8 | form the boundary of; be contiguous to | - |
| couch | 12 | formulate in a particular style or language | - |
| lousy | 8 | vile; despicable | a dirty (or lousy) trick |
| cloud | 8 | make overcast or cloudy | - |
| pound | 8 | move heavily or clumsily | - |
| mount | 7 | a land mass that projects well above its surroundings; higher than a hill | - |
| dough | 10 | informal terms for money | - |
| scout | 7 | a person employed to keep watch for some anticipated event | - |
| cough | 11 | a sudden noisy expulsion of air from the lungs that clears the air passages; a common symptom of upper respiratory infection or bronchitis or pneumonia or tuberculosis | - |
| louie | 5 | - | - |
| flour | 8 | convert grain into flour | - |
| mourn | 7 | feel sadness | She is mourning her dead child |
| hound | 9 | any of several breeds of dog used for hunting typically having large drooping ears | - |
| trout | 5 | any of various game and food fishes of cool fresh waters mostly smaller than typical salmons | - |
| tours | 5 | an industrial city in western France on the Loire River | - |
| youse | 8 | - | - |
| aloud | 6 | with relatively high volume | cried aloud for help |
| rouge | 6 | makeup consisting of a pink or red powder applied to the cheeks | - |
| amour | 7 | a usually secretive or illicit sexual relationship | - |
| vouch | 13 | give surety or assume responsibility | I vouch for the quality of my products |
| mound | 8 | the position on a baseball team of the player who throws the ball for a batter to try to hit | they have a southpaw on the mound |
| pouch | 12 | swell or protrude outwards | - |
| gourd | 7 | any vine of the family Cucurbitaceae that bears fruits with hard rinds | - |
| snout | 5 | beaklike projection of the anterior part of the head of certain insects such as e.g. weevils | - |
| pious | 7 | having or showing or expressing reverence for a deity | pious readings |
| joust | 12 | a combat between two mounted knights tilting against each other with blunted lances | - |
| mould | 8 | a distinctive nature, character, or type | - |
| bough | 11 | any of the larger branches of a tree | - |
| louse | 5 | wingless usually flattened bloodsucking insect parasitic on warm-blooded animals | - |
| odour | 6 | any property detected by the olfactory system | - |
| spout | 7 | talk in a noisy, excited, or declamatory manner | - |
| stout | 5 | having rugged physical strength; inured to fatigue or hardships | stout seamen |
| clout | 7 | a short nail with a flat head; used to attach sheet metal to wood | - |
| douse | 6 | slacken | douse a rope |
| coupe | 9 | a car with two doors and front seats and a luggage compartment | - |
| rouse | 5 | cause to be agitated, excited, or roused | - |
| gouge | 7 | make a groove in | - |
| scour | 7 | rub hard or scrub | scour the counter tops |
| fouls | 8 | - | - |
| rouen | 5 | - | - |
| ghoul | 9 | someone who takes bodies from graves and sells them for anatomical dissection | - |
| mousy | 10 | of something having a drab pale brown color resembling a mouse | a mousy brownish-grey color |
| coups | 9 | - | - |
| douce | 8 | - | - |
| souse | 5 | a person who drinks alcohol to excess habitually | - |
| fount | 8 | a specific size and style of type within a type family | - |
| grout | 6 | a thin mortar that can be poured and used to fill cracks in masonry or brickwork | - |
| hough | 12 | - | - |
| joule | 12 | English physicist who established the mechanical theory of heat and discovered the first law of thermodynamics (1818-1889) | - |
| couth | 10 | (used facetiously) refined and well-mannered | - |
| roust | 5 | - | - |
| soupy | 10 | effusively or insincerely emotional | - |
| flout | 8 | treat with contemptuous disregard | flout the rules |
| croup | 9 | the part of an animal that corresponds to the human buttocks | - |
| afoul | 8 | especially of a ship's lines etc | with its sails afoul |
| doula | 6 | an assistant (often the father of the soon-to-be-born child) who provides support for a woman in labor by encouraging her to use techniques learned in childbirth-preparation classes | - |
| bourg | 8 | - | - |
| bourn | 7 | an archaic term for a goal or destination | - |
| loupe | 7 | small magnifying glass (usually set in an eyepiece) used by jewelers and horologists | - |
| moult | 7 | cast off hair, skin, horn, or feathers | - |
| choux | 17 | - | - |
| gouty | 9 | suffering from gout | - |
| knout | 9 | a whip with a lash of leather thongs twisted with wire; used for flogging prisoners | - |
| houri | 8 | a voluptuously beautiful young woman | - |
| stoup | 7 | basin for holy water | - |
| fours | 8 | - | - |
| fouth | 11 | - | - |
| foule | 8 | - | - |
| fouet | 8 | - | - |
| fouat | 8 | - | - |
| fouds | 9 | - | - |
| fouer | 8 | - | - |
| gouks | 10 | - | - |
| goura | 6 | - | - |
| gouts | 6 | - | - |
| glout | 6 | - | - |
| grouf | 9 | - | - |
| houff | 14 | - | - |
| houfs | 11 | - | - |
| houts | 8 | - | - |
| jours | 12 | - | - |
| joual | 12 | - | - |
| jougs | 13 | - | - |
| jouks | 16 | - | - |
| koura | 9 | - | - |
| khoum | 14 | 5 khoums equal 1 ouguiya in Mauritania | - |
| lours | 5 | - | - |
| loury | 8 | - | - |
| louts | 5 | - | - |
| loure | 5 | - | - |
| loups | 7 | - | - |
| loued | 6 | - | - |
| lough | 9 | a long narrow (nearly landlocked) cove in Ireland | - |
| louma | 7 | - | - |
| lound | 6 | - | - |
| louns | 5 | - | - |
| meous | 7 | - | - |
| moups | 9 | - | - |
| moust | 7 | - | - |
| mouch | 12 | - | - |
| moues | 7 | - | - |
| mouls | 7 | - | - |
| drouk | 10 | - | - |
| douts | 6 | - | - |
| doura | 6 | sorghums of dry regions of Asia and North Africa | - |
| doucs | 8 | - | - |
| douks | 10 | - | - |
| douma | 8 | - | - |
| doums | 8 | - | - |
| douar | 6 | - | - |
| doups | 8 | - | - |
| bouge | 8 | - | - |
| bouts | 7 | - | - |
| bousy | 10 | - | - |
| bouse | 7 | haul with a tackle | - |
| bouks | 11 | - | - |
| boule | 7 | an inlaid furniture decoration; tortoiseshell and yellow and white metal form scrolls in cabinetwork | - |
| boult | 7 | - | - |
| bouns | 7 | - | - |
| bourd | 8 | - | - |
| clour | 7 | - | - |
| clous | 7 | - | - |
| chout | 10 | - | - |
| crout | 7 | - | - |
| courb | 9 | - | - |
| courd | 8 | - | - |
| coure | 7 | - | - |
| coude | 8 | - | - |
| cours | 7 | - | - |
| plouk | 11 | - | - |
| poupe | 9 | - | - |
| poupt | 9 | - | - |
| pours | 7 | - | - |
| pouts | 7 | - | - |
| pouty | 10 | - | - |
| poult | 7 | - | - |
| pouff | 13 | - | - |
| poufs | 10 | - | - |
| pouke | 11 | - | - |
| pouks | 11 | - | - |
| poule | 7 | - | - |
| poulp | 9 | - | - |
| proul | 7 | - | - |
| roues | 5 | - | - |
| roule | 5 | - | - |
| rouls | 5 | - | - |
| routs | 5 | - | - |
| roums | 7 | - | - |
| roups | 7 | - | - |
| roupy | 10 | - | - |
| routh | 8 | - | - |
| scoug | 8 | - | - |
| scoup | 9 | - | - |
| souts | 5 | - | - |
| souct | 7 | - | - |
| sough | 9 | make a murmuring sound | - |
| souks | 9 | - | - |
| souls | 5 | - | - |
| soums | 7 | - | - |
| soups | 7 | - | - |
| souce | 7 | - | - |
| sours | 5 | - | - |
| smout | 7 | - | - |
| stour | 5 | - | - |
| stoun | 5 | - | - |
| swoun | 8 | - | - |
| thous | 8 | - | - |
| touzy | 17 | - | - |
| touze | 14 | - | - |
| touks | 9 | - | - |
| touns | 5 | - | - |
| touse | 5 | - | - |
| tousy | 8 | - | - |
| touts | 5 | - | - |
| vrous | 8 | - | - |
| voulu | 8 | - | - |
| vouge | 9 | a kind of pike used by foot soldiers in the 14th century | - |
| vrouw | 11 | - | - |
| nould | 6 | - | - |
| noule | 5 | - | - |
| nouls | 5 | - | - |
| nouns | 5 | - | - |
| nouny | 8 | - | - |
| noups | 7 | - | - |
| youks | 12 | - | - |
| yourn | 8 | - | - |
| yourt | 8 | - | - |
| zouks | 18 | - | - |
| couta | 7 | - | - |
| gouch | 11 | - | - |
