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9-letter words with C as the 5th letter

A curated list of 9-letter words tailored to this exact pattern. Use this when C is fixed in the 5th slot; rotate high-frequency consonants elsewhere to prune fast. For example: abdicable, abdicated, abdicates.

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1058 words

Word	Length	Syllables
abdicable	9	3
abdicated	9	4
abdicates	9	4
abdicator	9	4
abducting	9	3
abduction	9	3
abductors	9	3
abjection	9	3
abrachias	9	3
acescents	9	3
addicting	9	3
addiction	9	3
addictive	9	3
adducting	9	3
adduction	9	3
adductive	9	3
adductors	9	3
adjacency	9	4
adjective	9	3
advecting	9	3
advection	9	3
advective	9	3
advocated	9	4
advocates	9	4
advocator	9	4
affecters	9	3
affecting	9	3
affection	9	3
affective	9	3
aglycones	9	4
airscapes	9	3
airscrews	9	2
albacores	9	4
albicores	9	4
algicidal	9	4
algicides	9	4
allocable	9	3
allocated	9	4
allocates	9	4
allocator	9	4
amelcorns	9	3
ammocetes	9	4
analcimes	9	4
analcites	9	4
anarchies	9	3
anarchism	9	3
anarchist	9	3
anteceded	9	4
antecedes	9	4
antechoir	9	3
antically	9	4
anticking	9	3
anticline	9	3
anticling	9	3
anticodon	9	4
anticrack	9	3
anticrime	9	3
aquacades	9	4
araucaria	9	4
artichoke	9	3
articling	9	3
articular	9	4
ascocarps	9	3
aspectual	9	3
associate	9	3
atrocious	9	3
attachers	9	3
attaching	9	3
attackers	9	3
attacking	9	3
attackman	9	3
attackmen	9	3
atticisms	9	3
atticists	9	3
audacious	9	3
auriculae	9	3
auricular	9	4
auriculas	9	4
aurochses	9	3
autacoids	9	3
autecisms	9	3
autocades	9	4
autoclave	9	3
autocoids	9	3
autocracy	9	4
autocrats	9	3
autocross	9	3
avascular	9	4
avouchers	9	3
avouching	9	3
avuncular	9	4
backcasts	9	2
backchats	9	2
backcloth	9	2
backcourt	9	2
backcross	9	2
balaclava	9	4
bankcards	9	2
basically	9	4
bedecking	9	3
beefcakes	9	3
bemocking	9	3
bicyclers	9	3
bicycling	9	3
bicyclist	9	3
bijection	9	3
bijective	9	3
binocular	9	4
bioactive	9	2
bioscopes	9	3
birdcages	9	3
birdcalls	9	2
bisecting	9	3
bisection	9	3
bisectors	9	3
blanchers	9	2
blanching	9	2
bleachers	9	2
bleaching	9	2
blenchers	9	2
blenching	9	2
blotchier	9	2
blotchily	9	3
blotching	9	2
bluecoats	9	2
bocaccios	9	3
bodacious	9	3
bodycheck	9	3
bookcases	9	3
boracites	9	4
borecoles	9	4
bounciest	9	2
branchiae	9	1
branchial	9	2
branchier	9	2
branching	9	2
branchlet	9	2
breachers	9	2
breaching	9	2
brecciate	9	2
breeching	9	2
broachers	9	2
broaching	9	2
broccolis	9	3
bronchial	9	2
bronchium	9	2
brunching	9	2
cabochons	9	3
calyculus	9	4
campcraft	9	2
canicular	9	4
capacious	9	3
capacitor	9	4
capuchins	9	3
caracaras	9	4
caracoled	9	4
caracoles	9	4
cardcases	9	3
cataclysm	9	3
catacombs	9	3
catechins	9	3
catechism	9	3
catechist	9	3
catechize	9	3
catechols	9	3
cerecloth	9	3
cetaceans	9	3
cetaceous	9	3
chalcogen	9	3
chanceful	9	3
chanciest	9	2
chancroid	9	2
chancrous	9	2
charcoals	9	2
chatchkas	9	2
chatchkes	9	2
cheechako	9	3
chinchier	9	2
chitchats	9	2
chowchows	9	2
churchier	9	2
churching	9	2
churchman	9	2
churchmen	9	2
civically	9	4
civicisms	9	3
clenchers	9	2
clenching	9	2
clinchers	9	2
clinching	9	2
clutching	9	2
coanchors	9	2
cockcrows	9	2
coercible	9	2
coercions	9	2
cofactors	9	3
coincided	9	3
coincides	9	3
coldcocks	9	2
colicines	9	4
colicroot	9	3
colocated	9	4
colocates	9	4
colocynth	9	3
comically	9	4
conically	9	4
conscious	9	2
conscribe	9	2
conscript	9	2
copacetic	9	4
coracoids	9	3
corncakes	9	3
corncrake	9	2
corncribs	9	2
cosecants	9	3
councilor	9	3
cranching	9	2
crescendi	9	3
crescendo	9	3
crescents	9	2
crotchets	9	2
crotchety	9	3
crouching	9	2
crunchers	9	2
crunchier	9	2
crunchily	9	3
crunching	9	2
crutching	9	2
cubically	9	4
cubiculum	9	4
culicines	9	4
cuticulae	9	3
cuticular	9	4
cynically	9	4
cynicisms	9	3
decocting	9	3
decoction	9	3
dedicated	9	4
dedicatee	9	3
dedicates	9	4
dedicator	9	4
deducible	9	3
deducting	9	3
deduction	9	3
deductive	9	3
defecated	9	4
defecates	9	4
defecting	9	3
defection	9	3
defective	9	3
defectors	9	3
deficient	9	3
defocused	9	4
defocuses	9	4
dejecting	9	3
dejection	9	3
delicates	9	4
delicious	9	3
democracy	9	4
democrats	9	3
depicters	9	3
depicting	9	3
depiction	9	3
depictors	9	3
desecrate	9	3
desiccant	9	3
desiccate	9	3
detachers	9	3
detaching	9	3
detecters	9	3
detecting	9	3
detection	9	3
detective	9	3
detectors	9	3
detickers	9	3
deticking	9	3
diarchies	9	2
dicyclies	9	3
didactics	9	3
dioecious	9	2
dioecisms	9	2
directest	9	3
directing	9	3
direction	9	3
directive	9	3
directors	9	3
directory	9	4
directrix	9	3
disaccord	9	3
dishcloth	9	2
dishclout	9	2
dodecagon	9	4
domiciled	9	4
domiciles	9	4
dovecotes	9	4
downcasts	9	2
downcomes	9	3
downcourt	9	2
drenchers	9	2
drenching	9	2
dropcloth	9	2
dumbcanes	9	3
dumpcarts	9	2
dustcover	9	3
dyarchies	9	2
eclectics	9	3
effecters	9	3
effecting	9	3
effective	9	3
effectors	9	3
effectual	9	3
efficient	9	3
encyclics	9	3
endocarps	9	3
endocasts	9	3
endocrine	9	3
enrichers	9	3
enriching	9	3
enunciate	9	3
eparchies	9	3
episcopal	9	4
episcopes	9	4
ethically	9	4
ethicians	9	3
ethicists	9	3
ethicized	9	4
ethicizes	9	4
eulachans	9	3
eulachons	9	3
eunuchism	9	3
eunuchoid	9	3
eutectics	9	3
eutectoid	9	3
evincible	9	3
exarchate	9	3
exarchies	9	3
exercised	9	4
exerciser	9	4
exercises	9	4
exorcised	9	4
exorciser	9	4
exorcises	9	4
exorcisms	9	3
exorcists	9	3
exorcized	9	4
exorcizes	9	4
expectant	9	3
expecting	9	3
exsecants	9	3
exsecting	9	3
exsiccate	9	3
facecloth	9	3
felicific	9	4
ferocious	9	3
fetichism	9	3
feticides	9	4
fiduciary	9	4
filicides	9	4
filmcards	9	2
finically	9	4
finickier	9	3
finicking	9	3
finochios	9	3
fireclays	9	3
flaccidly	9	3
flancards	9	2
fleeching	9	2
fleeciest	9	2
flenching	9	2
fletchers	9	2
fletching	9	2
flinchers	9	2
flinching	9	2
flitching	9	2
floccules	9	3
flocculus	9	3
flowchart	9	2
focaccias	9	3
footcloth	9	2
forecasts	9	3
forecheck	9	3
foreclose	9	3
forecourt	9	3
franchise	9	2
franciums	9	2
francolin	9	3
frenchify	9	3
frenching	9	2
frescoers	9	2
frescoing	9	2
fugacious	9	3
funicular	9	4
funiculus	9	4
galactose	9	3
gamecocks	9	3
gearcases	9	3
genically	9	4
genocidal	9	4
genocides	9	4
glaucomas	9	3
glunching	9	2
gonococci	9	4
gonocytes	9	4
graecized	9	3
graecizes	9	3
grouchier	9	2
grouchily	9	3
grouching	9	2
grutching	9	2
gynocracy	9	4
haecceity	9	3
haircloth	9	2
halachoth	9	3
halocline	9	3
handcarts	9	2
handclasp	9	2
handcraft	9	2
handcuffs	9	2
hardcover	9	3
havockers	9	3
havocking	9	3
helically	9	4
helicoids	9	3
helicopts	9	3
hemicycle	9	3
hemocoels	9	3
hemocytes	9	4
hexachord	9	3
highchair	9	2
hijackers	9	3
hijacking	9	3
hillcrest	9	2
holocaust	9	3
holocrine	9	3
homicidal	9	4
homicides	9	4
hopscotch	9	2
humectant	9	3
hyoscines	9	3
hypocaust	9	3
hypocotyl	9	4
hypocrisy	9	4
hypocrite	9	3
hyracoids	9	3
illicitly	9	4
imbeciles	9	4
imbecilic	9	4
impacters	9	3
impacting	9	3
impaction	9	3
impactive	9	3
impactors	9	3
inarching	9	3
indecency	9	4
indecorum	9	4
indicants	9	3
indicated	9	4
indicates	9	4
indicator	9	4
indiciums	9	3
indictees	9	3
indicters	9	3
indicting	9	3
indiction	9	3
indictors	9	3
inducible	9	3
inductees	9	3
inducting	9	3
induction	9	3
inductive	9	3
inductors	9	3
infecters	9	3
infecting	9	3
infection	9	3
infective	9	3
infectors	9	3
injectant	9	3
injecting	9	3
injection	9	3
injective	9	3
injectors	9	3
innocence	9	3
innocency	9	4
innocents	9	3
innocuous	9	3
insectary	9	4
insectile	9	3
inunction	9	3
invective	9	3
invocated	9	4
invocates	9	4
iotacisms	9	3
irascible	9	3
irascibly	9	4
ironclads	9	3
isooctane	9	3
isosceles	9	4
jounciest	9	2
judiciary	9	4
judicious	9	3
kamacites	9	4
kilocycle	9	3
kingcraft	9	2
kvetchier	9	2
kvetching	9	2
latecomer	9	4
laticifer	9	4
launchers	9	2
launching	9	2
launchpad	9	2
lexically	9	4
libecchio	9	3
libeccios	9	3
lidocaine	9	3
lipocytes	9	4
lobectomy	9	4
lobscouse	9	2
lodicules	9	4
logically	9	4
logicians	9	3
logicised	9	4
logicises	9	4
logicized	9	4
logicizes	9	4
loincloth	9	2
loricates	9	4
ludicrous	9	3
luteciums	9	3
lyrically	9	4
lyricised	9	4
lyricises	9	4
lyricisms	9	3
lyricists	9	3
lyricized	9	4
lyricizes	9	4
lytically	9	4
magically	9	4
magicians	9	3
magicking	9	3
malachite	9	3
malicious	9	3
manacling	9	3
manically	9	4
manicotti	9	4
manicured	9	4
manicures	9	4
marocains	9	3
masochism	9	3
masochist	9	3
masscults	9	2
maxicoats	9	3
medicable	9	3
medicaids	9	3
medically	9	4
medicares	9	4
medicated	9	4
medicates	9	4
medicinal	9	4
medicined	9	4
medicines	9	4
megacycle	9	3
merocrine	9	3
mesocarps	9	3
metacarpi	9	4
micaceous	9	3
millcakes	9	3
mimickers	9	3
mimicking	9	3
mimicries	9	3
minicamps	9	3
miracidia	9	4
misacting	9	3
miticidal	9	4
miticides	9	4
mobocracy	9	4
mobocrats	9	3
molecular	9	4
molecules	9	4
monachism	9	3
monecious	9	3
monickers	9	3
monocarps	9	3
monochord	9	3
monocline	9	3
monocoque	9	3
monocracy	9	4
monocrats	9	3
monocular	9	4
monocytes	9	4
monocytic	9	4
moorcocks	9	2
motocross	9	3
municipal	9	4
musicales	9	4
musically	9	4
musicians	9	3
myoscopes	9	3
myxocytes	9	4
navicerts	9	3
navicular	9	4
newscasts	9	2
nonacidic	9	4
nonacting	9	3
nonaction	9	3
nonactors	9	3
nonschool	9	2
notecards	9	3
notecases	9	4
notochord	9	3
novocaine	9	3
objectify	9	4
objecting	9	3
objection	9	3
objective	9	3
objectors	9	3
officered	9	4
officials	9	3
officiant	9	3
officiary	9	4
officiate	9	3
officinal	9	4
officious	9	3
offscreen	9	2
ohmically	9	4
oiticicas	9	4
olfaction	9	3
olfactory	9	4
ontically	9	4
oolachans	9	3
operceles	9	4
opercular	9	4
opercules	9	4
operculum	9	4
optically	9	4
opticians	9	3
opticists	9	3
opuscules	9	4
opusculum	9	4
orbicular	9	4
ossicular	9	4
otoscopes	9	4
outacting	9	3
outechoed	9	3
outechoes	9	3
outscheme	9	2
outscolds	9	2
outscoops	9	2
outscored	9	3
outscores	9	3
outscorns	9	2
overcalls	9	3
overcasts	9	3
overchill	9	3
overclaim	9	3
overclean	9	3
overclear	9	3
overcloud	9	3
overcoach	9	3
overcoats	9	3
overcomer	9	4
overcomes	9	4
overcooks	9	3
overcools	9	3
overcount	9	3
overcrams	9	3
overcrops	9	3
overcrowd	9	3
overcured	9	4
overcures	9	4
oxpeckers	9	3
panickier	9	3
panicking	9	3
parachors	9	3
parachute	9	3
parecisms	9	3
parochial	9	3
paunchier	9	2
pedicured	9	4
pedicures	9	4
pedocalic	9	4
pelecypod	9	4
penuchles	9	3
penuckles	9	3
pericarps	9	3
pericopae	9	3
pericopes	9	4
pericycle	9	3
petechiae	9	2
petechial	9	3
pinecones	9	4
pinochles	9	3
pinocytic	9	4
pinschers	9	2
planchets	9	2
pleaching	9	2
poinciana	9	3
policeman	9	4
policemen	9	4
pomaceous	9	3
postcards	9	2
postcavae	9	2
postcaval	9	3
postcodes	9	3
postcrash	9	2
praecipes	9	3
preachers	9	2
preachier	9	2
preachify	9	3
preachily	9	3
preaching	9	2
preacting	9	2
preoccupy	9	3
preschool	9	2
prescient	9	2
prescinds	9	2
prescored	9	3
prescores	9	3
prescreen	9	2
prescribe	9	2
prescript	9	2
princedom	9	3
princelet	9	3
princesse	9	2
principal	9	3
principia	9	3
principle	9	2
princocks	9	2
princoxes	9	3
proactive	9	2
proscribe	9	2
pulicides	9	4
pumiceous	9	3
pumicites	9	4
pushcarts	9	2
pushchair	9	2
putschist	9	2
quenchers	9	2
quenching	9	2
quercetin	9	3
quitclaim	9	2
radically	9	4
radicands	9	3
radicated	9	4
radicates	9	4
radicchio	9	3
radicular	9	4
raincoats	9	2
rapacious	9	3
raticides	9	4
raunchier	9	2
raunchily	9	3
reacceded	9	3
reaccedes	9	3
reaccents	9	2
reaccepts	9	2
reaccused	9	3
reaccuses	9	3
reascends	9	2
reascents	9	2
recocking	9	3
recyclers	9	3
recycling	9	3
redacting	9	3
redaction	9	3
redactors	9	3
redecided	9	4
redecides	9	4
redocking	9	3
reducible	9	3
reducibly	9	4
reductant	9	3
reductase	9	3
reduction	9	3
reductive	9	3
reductors	9	3
refecting	9	3
refection	9	3
refectory	9	4
refocused	9	4
refocuses	9	4
regicidal	9	4
regicides	9	4
reincited	9	3
reincites	9	3
rejackets	9	3
rejectees	9	3
rejecters	9	3
rejecting	9	3
rejection	9	3
rejective	9	3
rejectors	9	3
relacquer	9	3
relicense	9	3
reliction	9	3
relocated	9	4
relocatee	9	3
relocates	9	4
relocking	9	3
reluctant	9	3
reluctate	9	3
relucting	9	3
repackage	9	3
repacking	9	3
repechage	9	3
reracking	9	3
rerecords	9	3
resecting	9	3
resection	9	3
resecured	9	4
resecures	9	4
retacking	9	3
retackled	9	3
retackles	9	3
reticence	9	3
reticency	9	4
reticular	9	4
reticules	9	4
reticulum	9	4
revictual	9	3
revocable	9	3
ricochets	9	3
ridiculed	9	4
ridiculer	9	4
ridicules	9	4
rosaceous	9	3
sackcloth	9	2
sagacious	9	3
sailcloth	9	2
salacious	9	3
salicines	9	4
scincoids	9	2
scorchers	9	2
scorching	9	2
scotching	9	2
scutcheon	9	2
scutchers	9	2
scutching	9	2
searchers	9	2
searching	9	2
seascapes	9	3
seascouts	9	2
sebaceous	9	3
seduction	9	3
seductive	9	3
seedcakes	9	3
seedcases	9	3
selachian	9	3
selectees	9	3
selecting	9	3
selection	9	3
selective	9	3
selectman	9	3
selectmen	9	3
selectors	9	3
semicolon	9	4
semicomas	9	4
sericeous	9	3
setaceous	9	3
setscrews	9	2
shadchans	9	2
showcased	9	3
showcases	9	3
silicates	9	4
siliceous	9	3
silicides	9	4
silicious	9	3
siliciums	9	3
silicones	9	4
silicoses	9	4
silicosis	9	4
silicotic	9	4
siliculae	9	3
sinecures	9	4
sinicized	9	4
sinicizes	9	4
sketchers	9	2
sketchier	9	2
sketchily	9	3
sketching	9	2
slipcased	9	3
slipcases	9	3
slipcover	9	3
slouchers	9	2
slouchier	9	2
slouchily	9	3
slouching	9	2
sluiceway	9	3
smirching	9	2
smooching	9	2
smutchier	9	2
smutching	9	2
snatchers	9	2
snatchier	9	2
snatching	9	2
snitchers	9	2
snitching	9	2
softcover	9	3
solecised	9	4
solecises	9	4
solecisms	9	3
solecists	9	3
solecized	9	4
solecizes	9	4
solicited	9	4
solicitor	9	4
sonically	9	4
sonicated	9	4
sonicates	9	4
spanceled	9	3
speechify	9	3
spiccatos	9	3
sprockets	9	2
spruciest	9	2
staccatos	9	3
stanchers	9	2
stanchest	9	2
stanching	9	2
stanchion	9	2
starchier	9	2
starchily	9	3
starching	9	2
stenchful	9	2
stenchier	9	2
stenciled	9	3
stenciler	9	3
stepchild	9	2
stitchers	9	2
stitchery	9	3
stitching	9	2
stoccados	9	3
stoccatas	9	3
stoically	9	3
stoicisms	9	2
stopcocks	9	2
strickled	9	2
strickles	9	2
strictest	9	2
stricture	9	2
structure	9	2
stuccoers	9	2
stuccoing	9	2
subacidly	9	4
subechoes	9	3
subscales	9	3
subscribe	9	2
subscript	9	2
suitcases	9	3
sunscalds	9	2
sunscreen	9	2
suricates	9	4
switchers	9	2
switching	9	2
switchman	9	2
switchmen	9	2
tailcoats	9	2
telecasts	9	3
telically	9	4
tenacious	9	3
tenaculum	9	4
testcross	9	2
thatchers	9	2
thatchier	9	2
thatching	9	2
theocracy	9	3
theocrats	9	2
thinclads	9	2
thwackers	9	2
thwacking	9	2
timecards	9	3
timocracy	9	4
tobaccoes	9	3
tonically	9	4
topically	9	4
toxicants	9	3
toxicoses	9	4
toxicosis	9	4
trauchled	9	2
trauchles	9	2
treachery	9	3
trenchant	9	2
trenchers	9	2
trenching	9	2
trisceles	9	3
truncated	9	3
truncates	9	3
truncheon	9	2
tufaceous	9	3
tunicated	9	4
tunicates	9	4
turncoats	9	2
twitchers	9	2
twitchier	9	2
twitchily	9	3
twitching	9	2
typecases	9	4
typecasts	9	3
typically	9	4
tyrocidin	9	4
unanchors	9	3
unbuckled	9	3
unbuckles	9	3
uncocking	9	3
undeceive	9	3
undecided	9	4
undocking	9	3
unexcited	9	4
unexcused	9	4
unfocused	9	4
unlocking	9	3
unluckier	9	3
unluckily	9	4
unpackers	9	3
unpacking	9	3
unpicking	9	3
unpuckers	9	3
unsecured	9	4
unsuccess	9	3
untacking	9	3
untactful	9	3
untucking	9	3
urticants	9	3
urticaria	9	4
urticated	9	4
urticates	9	4
utricular	9	4
utriculus	9	4
varactors	9	3
varicella	9	4
varicosed	9	4
vasectomy	9	4
vaticides	9	4
vaticinal	9	4
vehicular	9	4
veracious	9	3
vesicants	9	3
vesicated	9	4
vesicates	9	4
vesiculae	9	3
vesicular	9	4
vinaceous	9	3
viricidal	9	4
viricides	9	4
virucidal	9	4
virucides	9	4
vivacious	9	3
voracious	9	3
washcloth	9	2
wellcurbs	9	2
whinchats	9	2
whipcords	9	2
windchill	9	2
wisecrack	9	3
woodchats	9	2
woodchuck	9	2
woodcocks	9	2
woodcraft	9	2
wrenching	9	2
xylocarps	9	3

FAQs

How do I play around a fixed C in the 5th slot?
Try mixing common consonant clusters (ST, TR, CH) in other positions while keeping C locked.

Why are uncommon words included?
We compile from a broad English list. Skim the top rows for more common picks.