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Wordle game help: 5-letter words with ‘C’ and ‘D’

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Wordle became one of the most popular online word games a year ago, reaching millions of monthly players interested in showcasing their knowledge of English vocabulary. By now, most of the players who play the game on a daily basis already have their own strategy to reach the answer faster and in fewer tries. Although the most common strategy is to try out words with mostly vowels first, sometimes this game plan does not give the expected results.

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Being stuck with only two green consonants can be very tricky, especially if some tries have already been wasted. However, looking for hints online can be an easy way to get inspired to solve the word puzzle before running out of tries. It’s also a good tool to increase your vocabulary for the next games. 

If you are struggling to solve the Wordle and are in need of a little game help, here’s a list of 5-letter words with ‘C’ and ‘D’ in them, organized in alphabetical order. Please note that not all words will be accepted by the New York Times word game.

  • Ached
  • Acids
  • Acned
  • Acold
  • Acrid
  • Acted
  • Adhoc
  • Arced
  • Asdic
  • Caddy
  • Cadet
  • Cadge
  • Cadre
  • Caged
  • Caked
  • Candy
  • Caned
  • Canid
  • Caped
  • Cards
  • Cared
  • Cased
  • Cauda
  • Caved
  • Cedar
  • Ceded
  • Chads
  • Chard
  • Chide
  • Child
  • Chord
  • Cider
  • Cited
  • Clade
  • Clods
  • Cloud
  • Clued
  • Coded
  • Coder
  • Codes
  • Codex
  • Codon
  • Colds
  • Condo
  • Coned
  • Cooed
  • Coped
  • Cords
  • Cordy
  • Could
  • Cowed
  • Coxed
  • Credo
  • Creed
  • Cried
  • Crowd
  • Crude
  • Cubed
  • Cuddy
  • Cupid
  • Curds
  • Cured
  • Cycad
  • Cyder
  • Dacha
  • Dance
  • Decaf
  • Decal
  • Decay
  • Decks
  • Decor
  • Decoy
  • Decry
  • Deice
  • Deuce
  • Diced
  • Dicer
  • Dices
  • Dicey
  • Dicky
  • Dicot
  • Disco
  • Discs
  • Ditch
  • Docks
  • Dolce
  • Doric
  • Dreck
  • Ducal
  • Duchy
  • Ducks
  • Ducky
  • Ducts
  • Dunce
  • Dutch
  • Edict
  • Edric
  • Educe
  • Faced
  • Laced
  • Lucid
  • Medic
  • Nicad
  • Octad
  • Paced
  • Raced
  • Scads
  • Scald
  • Scend
  • Scold
  • Scrod
  • Scuds
  • Vedic
  • Zadoc

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