Letter combination of uu
The combination uu occurs rarely in the English language and only in words which are unfamiliar or archaic, except for three: continuum, muumuu and vacuum. With the exception of Muumuu (Hawaiian), Nuuk (Greenlandic) and Weltanschauung (German), they derive from Latin roots.
They are as follows:
- Anschauung
- Carduus
- Continuum (also Continuüm)
- Duumvir
- Equus
- Fatuus
- Menstruum (also Menstruüm)
- Muumuu
- Mutuum
- Nuuk
- Obliquus
- Residuum (also Residuüm)
- Triduum (also Triduüm)
- Vacuum
- Weltanschauung
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