5-Letter Words Matching _ E _ C _

97 valid 5-letter words match the pattern _ E _ C _, 21 of which are common words. 2 green letters locked in.

21 common words97 valid words

Common Words (21)

Words most likely to be the answer.

bench

react

belch

perch

retch

peach

beech

beach

fetch

pence

reach

fence

teach

deuce

welch

leech

mecca

hence

leach

mercy

peace

Other Valid 5-Letter Words (76)

Valid as guesses, but unlikely to be the answer.

becca

becco

beeck

beica

beice

benco

berck

bercy

cecca

cence

cenci

cerci

deach

decca

deice

delco

depca

dercy

felch

hecco

helco

hench

heuch

keach

keech

kelci

kelcy

kench

kerch

ketch

lecce

leeco

leics

lenca

lench

lenci

lencl

letch

leuce

leuch

leuco

meach

meece

meech

melch

merca

merce

merch

merci

merck

perca

perce

percy

reace

recce

recco

reccy

reece

reice

reich

secco

seech

sence

senci

sercq

teece

tench

terce

tetch

teuch

vetch

welcy

wench

wesco

yecch

yeech

What These Words Have in Common

Letter patterns across all 97 matches.

Most common letters

e97

c97

h41

r27

l22

a20

n17

b12

i12

t12

Vowel distribution

0 with no vowels
51 with 1 unique vowel
44 with 2 unique vowels
2 with 3+ unique vowels

Most common endings

-ch · 38 words
-ce · 20 words
-co · 10 words
-ca · 9 words
-cy · 7 words

Strategy

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

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