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5-letter words starting with TU
There are 44 5-letter words starting with TU in the standard word-game list. The most common are tumor, tutor, tubes, tummy, tuned, turbo. Every five-letter word here is a valid Wordle guess, and the commonest ones are the likeliest answers.
Most common, with meanings
| Word | Meaning | Points |
|---|---|---|
| tumor | an abnormal new mass of tissue that serves no purpose | 7 |
| tutor | a person who gives private instruction (as in singing, acting, etc.) | 5 |
| tubes | The Internet. | 7 |
| tummy | slang for a paunch | 12 |
| tuned | Adjusted in pitch or resonance. | 6 |
| turbo | A turbine | 7 |
| tulip | any of numerous perennial bulbous herbs having linear or broadly lanceolate leaves and usually a single… | 7 |
| tubby | short and plump | 12 |
| tunic | an enveloping or covering membrane or layer of body tissue | 7 |
| tutti | All together. Indicates that the remainder of a group should join in playing after a solo or other passage… | 5 |
| tuner | an electronic receiver that detects and demodulates and amplifies transmitted signals | 5 |
| tulle | a fine (often starched) net used for veils or tutus or gowns | 5 |
| tubal | of or relating to occurring in a tube such as e.g. the Fallopian tube or Eustachian tube | 7 |
| tubed | of a tire; having an inner tube | 8 |
| tuber | a fleshy underground stem or root serving for reproductive and food storage | 7 |
| tufty | Having the form of or resembling a tuft ("a bunch of grass, hair, etc., held together at the base"). | 11 |
| tumid | ostentatiously lofty in style | 8 |
| tunny | important warm-water fatty fish of the genus Thunnus of the family Scombridae; usually served as steaks | 8 |
| tupik | tent that is an Eskimo summer dwelling | 11 |
| tuque | A knit cap, often woollen but of varying shape, usually conical and topped by a pom-pom. | 14 |
| turfy | Of, pertaining to, or constructed of turf. | 11 |
| turps | volatile liquid distilled from turpentine oleoresin; used as paint thinner and solvent and medicinally | 7 |
| tutee | learns from a tutor | 5 |
| tutty | A powdered form of impure zinc oxide used for polishing. | 8 |