5-letter words with C as the 1st letter and R as the 5th letter

C starts the word and R finishes it, so the frame is C???R. Two-thirds of the matches close on -er, giving shapes such as cater, cedar, cider and coder. Fifteen are Wordle answers and eleven are common, and the tournament dictionaries agree on all but one word.

C-first, R-fifth words at a glance

• Thirty-nine words start with C and end in R.
• Twenty-six close on -er, from cater and cedar to coder and crier.
• Fifteen matches are Wordle answers and eleven are common.
• The dictionaries agree closely, with Collins and NWL2023 both at 38.
• Cyber and cymar tie for the top score at 12.
• Every match is an accepted Wordle guess.

Which C-first, R-fifth words are Wordle answers?

Fifteen of the 39 matches are Wordle answers: caper, cater, cedar, chair, cheer, choir, cider, cigar, clear, color, corer, cover, cower, crier and cyber. Eleven count as common, and most answers are words a player already knows.

The two edge letters fix the shape tightly, so a green C and R leave only the middle three tiles. Chair, choir and cheer share a CH- opening, which means the second letter often separates the shortlist before the vowels do.

Why the -er ending rules this list

Twenty-six of the 39 matches end in -er, so the pattern behaves like a list of roles and agents: coder, crier, cater, comer, caper and coper all name a person or a task. A final -er is the single most useful clue here, covering two-thirds of the group.

Dictionary support barely shifts across the set. Collins and NWL2023 each hold 38 words and ENABLE 36, and only one entry is Collins-only, so almost every match survives whichever list your game uses.

Two ends, one strong clue