5-Letter Words Matching _ A _ C _

120 valid 5-letter words match the pattern _ A _ C _, 15 of which are common words. 2 green letters locked in.

15 common words120 valid words

Common Words (15)

Words most likely to be the answer.

hatch

watch

farce

catch

lance

march

fancy

saucy

latch

dance

patch

sauce

ranch

batch

match

Other Valid 5-Letter Words (105)

Valid as guesses, but unlikely to be the answer.

bacca

baccy

balch

banca

banco

bancs

bapco

bapct

barca

barce

barch

barco

basco

bauch

caeca

calci

canch

carce

casco

cauca

cauch

cayce

dacca

daccs

dancy

darce

darci

darcy

datch

falco

farci

farcy

fauch

gance

ganch

garce

gatch

gaucy

haick

halch

hance

hanch

harco

hauck

jauch

karch

kauch

lacca

laich

laics

lanch

lancs

larch

macco

maice

malca

mancy

marci

marco

marcs

marcy

mayce

naacp

nance

nanci

nancy

narco

narcs

nasca

nasch

natch

nauch

palch

palco

parca

parch

pasch

pasco

rance

ratch

rauch

sacci

sacco

saice

sanct

sancy

sauch

sayce

tacca

taccs

taich

talca

talck

talco

talcs

tasco

vance

waacs

warch

wasco

wauch

yacca

yance

yancy

yauco

What These Words Have in Common

Letter patterns across all 120 matches.

Most common letters

a120

c120

h42

n32

r29

s26

t21

e20

l19

y18

Vowel distribution

0 with no vowels
60 with 1 unique vowel
56 with 2 unique vowels
4 with 3+ unique vowels

Most common endings

-ch · 38 words
-ce · 19 words
-co · 17 words
-ca · 13 words
-cy · 12 words

Strategy

15 answers fit. Look at the most common remaining letters above and choose a guess that probes the unknown positions.

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