In this photo illustration, the word game Wordle is shown on a mobile phone on January 12, 2022 in Houston, Texas. The online word game Wordle has gone viral after initially gaining momentum in October of 2021. Created by software engineer Josh Wardle, the game now has more than 2.7 million players.
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5 letter words with OU as third and fourth letters – ‘Wordle’ game help

With two down, there's only three to go.

It’s a new day with a new Wordle puzzle to test your mind with. Each day Wordle tasks players with finding a random five-letter word and as you’d expect this is no easy task.

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If you’re here then it means you’ve already used one or more of your guesses and have found that the third and fourth letters in the word are O and U. Having this as a base, going forward is much easier, but there is still a lot to consider.

To help out, we’ve compiled a list of all the possible answers which you can find below.

5 Letter Words with OU as Third and Fourth Letters

Wordle tiles are shown that say "What is Wordle".
Remix by Keane Eacobellis

A great tip for finding new letters in Wordle puzzles is to try vowels as they are often some of the most used letters in all words. You may also want to focus on a single position in the word like its first letter and try to seek out that first. In the meantime, here are some examples:

  • about  
  • afoul  
  • aloud  
  • amour  
  • chout  
  • choux  
  • cloud  
  • clour  
  • clous  
  • clout  
  • croup  
  • crout  
  • drouk  
  • flour  
  • flout  
  • ghoul  
  • glout  
  • grouf  
  • group  
  • grout  
  • khoum  
  • knout  
  • meous  
  • odour  
  • pious  
  • plouk  
  • proud  
  • proul  
  • scoug  
  • scoup  
  • scour  
  • scout  
  • shout  
  • smout  
  • snout  
  • spout  
  • stoun  
  • stoup  
  • stour  
  • stout  
  • swoun  
  • thous  
  • trout 
  • vrous
  • vrouw

There were still a ton of possibilities to consider despite already having two letters. As such, if you weren’t able to get it done, don’t stress! There is a new Wordle each day, so you’ll soon have another chance at redemption.


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