Words Containing OUS

There are over 4.9K 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

clous

douse

louse

moust

mousy

ousel

ousts

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

bayous

cymous

favous

foussa

hamous

iodous

joyous

lupous

mouser

nouses

rimous

rouser

rouses

smouse

souser

touser

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247

7-Letter Words With OUS

Common 7-letter OUS-words:

various

serious

housing

obvious

nervous

bloused

blouson

coccous

devious

dubious

fungous

grouser

grouses

heinous

jousted

rousted

sanious

sousers

uranous

zealous

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392

8-Letter Words With OUS

Common 8-letter OUS-words:

numerous

thousand

enormous

acoustic

rigorous

famously

humorous

precious

generous

espouser

eurokous

flousing

gunhouse

housemen

housings

idoneous

jousters

oragious

soporous

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649

9-Letter Words With OUS

Common 9-letter OUS-words:

religious

thousands

household

dangerous

seriously

analogous

conscious

ambiguous

ambitious

obviously

anonymous

hazardous

notorious

variously

burdenous

deckhouse

epigenous

fistulous

rehousing

teahouses

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772

10-Letter Words With OUS

Common 10-letter OUS-words:

previously

continuous

indigenous

households

autonomous

mysterious

tremendous

synonymous

disastrous

suspicious

greenhouse

infectious

contiguous

facinorous

houseclean

monanthous

nonaqueous

perviously

sedulously

stemmatous

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738

11-Letter Words With OUS

Common 11-letter OUS-words:

unconscious

spontaneous

mountainous

prestigious

congenerous

deviousness

dichogamous

farraginous

glasshouses

hercogamous

homeomerous

homogeneous

hylophagous

jealoushood

lactiferous

momentously

religiouses

torpedinous

uriniferous

veneficious

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698

12-Letter Words With OUS

Common 12-letter OUS-words:

continuously

simultaneous

posthumously

ascomycetous

dodecandrous

extraneously

householders

househusband

inconcinnous

ingloriously

mallophagous

monadelphous

odontomatous

parastichous

perfidiously

perniciously

siliquaceous

unprosperous

vociferously

xeromorphous

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542

13-Letter Words With OUS

Common 13-letter OUS-words:

consciousness

barbarousness

coconsciouses

deviousnesses

discontinuous

equisetaceous

fibrinogenous

furaciousness

hazardousness

heinousnesses

heteroousians

hypertrophous

innocuousness

ovoviviparous

saurognathous

serendipitous

subcontinuous

sulfurousness

umbelliferous

unconsciously

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415

14-Letter Words With OUS

Common 14-letter OUS-words:

simultaneously

censoriousness

contumeliously

enantiostylous

enormousnesses

harmoniousness

imperviousness

inharmoniously

malacophyllous

mousetrappings

mucilaginously

oleaginousness

pentadactylous

pyrenomycetous

slumberousness

stertorousness

superluxurious

suppositiously

thymelaeaceous

wondrousnesses

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15-Letter Words With OUS

Common 15-letter OUS-words:

amorphousnesses

chromatophorous

circumforaneous

compendiousness

discontinuously

flirtatiousness

imperiousnesses

menispermaceous

monochlamydeous

notoriousnesses

officiousnesses

pendulousnesses

rapturousnesses

religiousnesses

sanguineousness

sarcenchymatous

scribaciousness

subreptitiously

sulphureousness

vicissitudinous

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4,869 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 4,869 words in the English dictionary that contain OUS, and most of them are 10 letters long (772 words of that length).
What's the longest word containing OUS?

The longest word containing OUS is "menispermaceous" 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", "ubiquitously", "overzealously", "triquetrously" 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".