Words Containing OUS

There are over 5K words with the letters OUS in English. From short OUS-words to long ones, find all the words that have OUS in it grouped by length, each valid in Scrabble, Wordle, and Words With Friends. You can also see five letter words with OUS.

3-Letter Words With OUS

Short high-frequency OUS-words:

ous

4-Letter Words With OUS

Common 4-letter OUS-words:

fous

lous

mous

nous

oust

sous

yous

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5-Letter Words With OUS

Common 5-letter OUS-words:

house

mouse

bouse

bousy

douse

joust

louse

lousy

meous

mousy

ousel

pious

rouse

roust

souse

thous

touse

tousy

vrous

youse

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6-Letter Words With OUS

Common 6-letter OUS-words:

famous

houses

housed

cousin

boused

bouses

doused

favous

foussa

louser

louses

miaous

mousme

nouses

ousels

parous

pousse

ramous

soused

toused

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7-Letter Words With OUS

Common 7-letter OUS-words:

various

serious

housing

obvious

nervous

burnous

dousers

hideous

housier

lousing

mousily

nacrous

onerous

rousant

soukous

spinous

uberous

umbrous

urinous

villous

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396

8-Letter Words With OUS

Common 8-letter OUS-words:

numerous

thousand

enormous

acoustic

rigorous

famously

humorous

precious

generous

anourous

canorous

carousal

crousely

dextrous

housiest

jaloused

mousting

mucinous

yttrious

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664

9-Letter Words With OUS

Common 9-letter OUS-words:

religious

thousands

household

dangerous

seriously

analogous

conscious

ambiguous

ambitious

obviously

anonymous

hazardous

notorious

variously

arduously

oosporous

roadhouse

sagacious

schistous

washhouse

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802

10-Letter Words With OUS

Common 10-letter OUS-words:

previously

continuous

indigenous

households

autonomous

mysterious

tremendous

synonymous

disastrous

suspicious

greenhouse

infectious

cupidinous

freehouses

glaucously

homonymous

monoecious

monosemous

pennaceous

periculous

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757

11-Letter Words With OUS

Common 11-letter OUS-words:

unconscious

spontaneous

mountainous

prestigious

anamorphous

epignathous

farinaceous

fatuousness

febriferous

gaseousness

housefronts

longanimous

melliferous

mellivorous

moustachios

pilothouses

schoolhouse

unluxurious

varicellous

zealousness

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723

12-Letter Words With OUS

Common 12-letter OUS-words:

continuously

simultaneous

posthumously

autogenously

cementitious

labouriously

lapidicolous

melliphagous

meticulously

miraculously

motherhouses

nebulousness

nonconscious

nonunanimous

nutritiously

overtrousers

perniciously

polygamously

schoolhouses

unmiraculous

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559

13-Letter Words With OUS

Common 13-letter OUS-words:

consciousness

cleistogamous

conspicuously

contrariously

garrulousness

gibbousnesses

halfseriously

infructuously

microphyllous

notoriousness

oraculousness

promiscuously

quartziferous

rendezvousing

subcontiguous

subterraneous

sumptuousness

tediousnesses

unconsciouses

vicariousness

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427

14-Letter Words With OUS

Common 14-letter OUS-words:

simultaneously

advantageously

aerenchymatous

contumaciously

courageousness

cumbrousnesses

fallaciousness

gregariousness

gynomonoecious

hyposulphurous

malacophyllous

platycephalous

pseudonymously

pteridophytous

sacrilegiously

schizognathous

sonorousnesses

speciousnesses

squamousnesses

ultrareligious

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15-Letter Words With OUS

Common 15-letter OUS-words:

ambiguousnesses

ambitiousnesses

brachydactylous

conspicuousness

datawarehousing

deliriousnesses

demeritoriously

enantiomorphous

excrementitious

hilariousnesses

householdership

impecuniousness

industriousness

lissencephalous

nefariousnesses

pendulousnesses

plumbaginaceous

strombuliferous

superstitiously

vexatiousnesses

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5,001 Common Words with OUS

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What is the highest scoring word in
Scrabble that contains OUS?

38 Points

The highest scoring word in Scrabble that contains OUS is zygophyllaceous with a total of 38 points.

Z 10

Y 4

G 2

O 1

P 3

H 4

Y 4

L 1

A 1

C 3

E 1

O 1

U 1

S 1

A list of all OUS words with their Scrabble and Words with Friends points. You can also find a list of all words that start with OUS. Also commonly searched for are words that end in OUS. Try our five letter words with OUS page if you’re playing Wordle-like games or use the New York Times Wordle Solver for finding the NYT Wordle daily answer.

FAQ Words With Letters OUS

How many words containing OUS are in the English dictionary?

There are 5,001 words in the English dictionary that contain OUS, and most of them are 10 letters long (802 words of that length).
What's the longest word containing OUS?

The longest word containing OUS is "datawarehousing" at 15 letters long. If you're looking for a more everyday word, "simultaneously" is the longest common word containing OUS.
Are there any rare words containing OUS worth more in Scrabble?

Yes. Uncommon words like "quartziferous", "querimoniously", "overzealously", "loquaciously" contain OUS and can score big thanks to their unusual letters. "quartziferous" is worth 34 points in Scrabble before any bonus tiles.
What are the most common words containing OUS?

Most words containing OUS are 10 letters long, including everyday words like "previously", "continuous", "indigenous", "households", "autonomous".