Five-letter words matching H_U_D

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HOUND is the only possible answer that fits.

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HOUND used HAULD guess

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What fits H_U_D?

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HOUND

A dog, particularly a breed with a good sense of smell developed for hunting other animals.

Source: Wiktionary contributors, available under CC BY-SA 4.0. Selected and lightly formatted from Wiktionary; long entries may be shortened.

Past Wordle answer: April 18, 2023.

HAULD

Synonym of odalman.

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How many five-letter words match H_U_D?
2 five-letter words match H_U_D in this site's Wordle guess list. Of these, 1 is a possible answer.