5-letter words with C as the 3rd letter and H as the 4th letter

Lock in the pattern _ _ C H _ and the search narrows to 60 tournament-dictionary words. NICHE, YACHT, CACHE, and ITCHY are among the recognizable choices; many other matches are specialist or less familiar. The final letter offers a useful clue: E and T are the most frequent endings, with 12 words each.

What stands out in the C-H pattern

• The fixed pattern is _ _ C H _, with 60 words accepted by at least one tournament dictionary.
• Only five matches rank among common English words; NICHE, YACHT, and CACHE are familiar starting points.
• Seven matches appear in the Wordle answer list, and all seven also occur in tournament dictionaries.
• E and T tie as the most common final letters, with 12 words apiece; S follows with 10.
• M begins 12 matches, twice as many as T, the next most common first letter at six.

Which 5-letter words have C third and H fourth?

NICHE, YACHT, CACHE, ITCHY, MACHO, NACHO, DUCHY, and MOCHA show how varied the pattern can look. The first two letters do much of the work: try M for MACHO or MOCHA, N for NICHE or NACHO, and Y for YACHT.

The list is not a set of equally familiar guesses. Just 5 of the 60 matches are classed as common, and 39 have definitions in the underlying word reference. If a candidate looks unfamiliar, check your game's word list rather than assuming every dictionary includes it.

How should you use C and H as fixed clues?

For Wordle, seven answers fit this pattern, while all 60 matches are allowed guesses. That makes the clue more selective for possible answers than for guesses; the available counts do not identify which seven answers they are. Test the unknown positions with words that vary their opening letters and endings.

For a board game, VICHY and YECHY each score 16 points before premium squares, while MOCHY scores 15. Those are stronger raw scores than familiar NICHE or YACHT, but obscure vocabulary is a real drawback. Among the same C-third, H-fourth pattern, T has 54 matches and S has 36, so changing the third letter opens a different-sized search.