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Most Common 4-Letter Words Starting With C

The most frequently used words in everyday English, most common first.

All 230 4-Letter Words Starting With C (A–Z)

The words come from the ENABLE word list (3,903 four-letter words), the open dictionary that many word games, including Words With Friends, are based on. Official Scrabble dictionaries accept nearly all of them but can differ slightly.

Starting with CA (51)

Starting with CE (15)

Starting with CH (24)

Starting with CI (7)

Starting with CL (18)

Starting with CO (68)

Starting with CR (14)

Starting with CU (27)

Starting with CW (1)

Starting with CY (4)

Starting with CZ (1)

About 4-Letter Words Starting With C

230
Total words
196
No repeated letters
3 pts
Scrabble value of C

There are 230 four-letter words that start with C. The words come from the ENABLE word list (3,903 four-letter words), the open dictionary that many word games, including Words With Friends, are based on. Official Scrabble dictionaries accept nearly all of them but can differ slightly.

The letters that most often follow C are O (68), A (51), U (27), H (24) and L (18). The biggest groups are words beginning with CO-, CA- and CU-, so if you know the second letter you can jump straight to that group in the list above.

Highest-Scoring Words for Scrabble and Words With Friends

Using standard Scrabble tile values (before bonus squares), the highest-scoring well-known words here are COZY (18 points), CZAR (15 points), CRUX (13 points), CHEF (12 points), CHEW (12 points). C itself is worth 3 points. To search by the exact tiles on your rack, use the word finder or the anagram solver.

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There are 230 four-letter words that start with C in our list (based on the ENABLE word list). The most common are COME, CITY, CARE, CASE, CALL, CAME, COST, CLUB.
With standard Scrabble tile values: COZY (18), CZAR (15), CRUX (13), CHEF (12), CHEW (12). Bonus squares on the board can increase these scores.
196 of the 230 words use 4 different letters.