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Wordle Game Help: 5-letter words with with ‘C’, and ‘E’ on them

A list to help with your game.

Wordle is a game created to exercise players’ vocabulary as they try to guess a secret word in up to six attempts. The more players play, the more they develop their strategies and end up knowing new words as they try to guess the secret word of the day.

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There are days when you may not be feeling very lucky, or feeling very motivated, but you still don’t want to lose your winning streak. At these times, a little help may be needed. If you only know that there are the letters ‘C’ and ‘E’ in the secret word but haven’t figured out their positions, here are some five-letter words with ‘C’, and ‘E’ on them, sorted alphabetically so you’ll have less work to do with filtering your choices by the letters you’ve already eliminated.

Five-letter words with ‘C’, and ‘E’ on them to try on Wordle

  • acerb
  • aceta
  • ached
  • aches
  • ackee
  • acmes
  • acned
  • acnes
  • acred
  • acres
  • acted
  • acute
  • aecia
  • alecs
  • amice
  • apace
  • arced
  • areca
  • areic
  • beach
  • becap
  • becks
  • beech
  • belch
  • bench
  • bicep
  • bices
  • blech
  • bocce
  • bonce
  • brace
  • caber
  • cable
  • cache
  • cades
  • cadet
  • cadge
  • cadre
  • caeca
  • cafes
  • caged
  • cager
  • cages
  • cagey
  • caked
  • cakes
  • cakey
  • calve
  • camel
  • cameo
  • cames
  • caned
  • caner
  • canes
  • canoe
  • caped
  • caper
  • capes
  • cared
  • carer
  • cares
  • caret
  • carex
  • carle
  • carse
  • carte
  • carve
  • cased
  • cases
  • caste
  • cater
  • cates
  • cause
  • caved
  • caver
  • caves
  • cavie
  • cawed
  • cease
  • cebid
  • cecal
  • cecum
  • cedar
  • ceded
  • ceder
  • cedes
  • cedis
  • ceiba
  • ceili
  • ceils
  • celeb
  • cella
  • celli
  • cello
  • cells
  • celom
  • celts
  • cense
  • cento
  • cents
  • centu
  • ceorl
  • cepes
  • cerci
  • cered
  • ceres
  • ceria
  • ceric
  • ceros
  • certs
  • cesta
  • cesti
  • cetes
  • chafe
  • chape
  • chare
  • chase
  • cheap
  • cheat
  • check
  • cheek
  • cheep
  • cheer
  • chefs
  • chela
  • chemo
  • chems
  • chert
  • chess
  • chest
  • cheth
  • chevy
  • chews
  • chewy
  • chide
  • chief
  • chiel
  • chile
  • chime
  • chine
  • chive
  • choke
  • chore
  • chose
  • chuse
  • chute
  • chyle
  • chyme
  • cider
  • cimex
  • cines
  • cires
  • cited
  • citer
  • cites
  • civet
  • civie
  • clade
  • clave
  • clean
  • clear
  • cleat
  • cleek
  • clefs
  • cleft
  • clegs
  • clepe
  • clept
  • clerk
  • clews
  • clime
  • cline
  • clone
  • close
  • clove
  • cloze
  • clued
  • clues
  • coble
  • codec
  • coded
  • coden
  • coder
  • codes
  • codex
  • coeds
  • cohoe
  • coked
  • cokes
  • coled
  • coles
  • comae
  • combe
  • comer
  • comes
  • comet
  • comte
  • coned
  • cones
  • coney
  • conge
  • conte
  • cooed
  • cooee
  • cooer
  • cooey
  • coped
  • copen
  • coper
  • copes
  • copse
  • cored
  • corer
  • cores
  • corse
  • cosec
  • coses
  • coset
  • cosey
  • cosie
  • coted
  • cotes
  • coude
  • coupe
  • coved
  • coven
  • cover
  • coves
  • covet
  • covey
  • cowed
  • cower
  • coxae
  • coxed
  • coxes
  • coyed
  • coyer
  • cozen
  • cozes
  • cozey
  • cozie
  • crake
  • crane
  • crape
  • crate
  • crave
  • craze
  • creak
  • cream
  • credo
  • creds
  • creed
  • creek
  • creel
  • creep
  • creme
  • crepe
  • crept
  • crepy
  • cress
  • crest
  • crews
  • cried
  • crier
  • cries
  • crime
  • cripe
  • crone
  • crore
  • croze
  • crude
  • cruel
  • cruet
  • cruse
  • cryer
  • cubeb
  • cubed
  • cuber
  • cubes
  • cukes
  • culet
  • culex
  • cupel
  • cured
  • curer
  • cures
  • curet
  • curie
  • curse
  • curve
  • cusec
  • cuter
  • cutes
  • cutey
  • cutie
  • cuvee
  • cuzes
  • cyber
  • cycle
  • cyder
  • cymae
  • cymes
  • daces
  • dance
  • decaf
  • decal
  • decan
  • decay
  • decks
  • decor
  • decos
  • decoy
  • decry
  • deice
  • demic
  • deuce
  • diced
  • dicer
  • dices
  • dicey
  • dolce
  • douce
  • dreck
  • duces
  • dulce
  • dunce
  • eched
  • eches
  • echos
  • eclat
  • ecrus
  • edict
  • educe
  • educt
  • eject
  • elect
  • emcee
  • emics
  • enact
  • epact
  • epics
  • epoch
  • erect
  • erica
  • eruct
  • escar
  • escot
  • ethic
  • etics
  • evict
  • exact
  • excel
  • execs
  • faced
  • facer
  • faces
  • facet
  • farce
  • fecal
  • feces
  • fecks
  • fence
  • fetch
  • fices
  • fiche
  • fleck
  • force
  • fyces
  • gecko
  • gecks
  • genic
  • glace
  • grace
  • hacek
  • hance
  • hecks
  • hemic
  • hence
  • heuch
  • icier
  • icker
  • ileac
  • juice
  • kecks
  • kench
  • ketch
  • laced
  • lacer
  • laces
  • lacey
  • lance
  • leach
  • leech
  • letch
  • loche
  • locie
  • luces
  • lucre
  • lycea
  • lycee
  • maced
  • macer
  • maces
  • mache
  • macle
  • mecca
  • mechs
  • medic
  • melic
  • merch
  • mercs
  • mercy
  • mesic
  • miche
  • mince
  • nacre
  • necks
  • nicer
  • niche
  • niece
  • nonce
  • ocean
  • ocher
  • oches
  • ochre
  • ocker
  • ocrea
  • octet
  • oleic
  • oncet
  • ounce
  • paced
  • pacer
  • paces
  • pacey
  • peace
  • peach
  • pecan
  • pechs
  • pecks
  • pecky
  • pence
  • perch
  • percs
  • piece
  • place
  • ponce
  • price
  • puces
  • raced
  • racer
  • races
  • rance
  • reach
  • react
  • rebec
  • recap
  • recce
  • recit
  • recks
  • recon
  • recta
  • recti
  • recto
  • recur
  • recut
  • relic
  • retch
  • riced
  • ricer
  • rices
  • ruche
  • saice
  • sauce
  • scale
  • scape
  • scare
  • scena
  • scend
  • scene
  • scent
  • scone
  • scope
  • score
  • scree
  • screw
  • scute
  • secco
  • sects
  • sepic
  • serac
  • sices
  • since
  • slice
  • sneck
  • soces
  • socle
  • space
  • speck
  • specs
  • spice
  • sucre
  • sycee
  • syces
  • taces
  • tacet
  • tache
  • teach
  • techs
  • techy
  • tecta
  • telco
  • telic
  • tench
  • terce
  • teuch
  • theca
  • trace
  • trice
  • truce
  • twice
  • ulcer
  • uncle
  • ureic
  • varec
  • vetch
  • viced
  • vices
  • voces
  • voice
  • wacke
  • wecht
  • welch
  • wench
  • wince
  • wreck
  • xebec
  • xenic
  • xeric
  • yecch
  • yechs
  • yechy
  • yince
  • zebec

All the words on this list are accepted by Wordle and are sure to give you more clues as to which letters are present or not in the word of the day until you get it right. Another good tip to get it right as early as possible is to find which other vowels are present in the word of the day to narrow down your options. Don’t forget to try words you already know first, since Wordle tends to choose more common words as the right answer, at least in most cases.

These tips should help you complete your latest Wordle task.


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