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

C _ _ _ N _ is the shape: the fifth letter never moves, while the other four slots vary. Familiar matches include coming, caring, cement, and colony; less everyday entries sit alongside them. Just 20 of the 94 rank among the 25,000 most common English words, so the set blends recognizable vocabulary with specialist game words.

At a glance: the C _ _ _ N _ pattern

• This set holds 94 six-letter matches across the tournament dictionaries counted here.
• Coming, crying, client, and caring are among the familiar examples.
• G is the most common final letter, appearing in 33 matches.
• S is the next most common ending, with 28 words.
• The average score is 10.1 points.

How do these six-letter C words usually end?

G and S dominate the final position: together they account for 61 of the 94 entries. That makes examples such as coming, coding, chains, and clowns especially useful when your rack or board points toward a common ending.

Other endings are much thinner. E closes 12 words and T closes 8, while A, Y, I, and O are less frequent still. When the final letter is neither G nor S, try cement or client for E and T before testing rarer endings.

Which matches score highest, and what should you check?

COZING leads the high-score examples at 18 points, followed by COZENS at 17 and COXING at 16, all well clear of the 10.1-point average. Those are less familiar choices than crying or caving, so confirm that your game accepts a word before building a play around its score.

Dictionary coverage differs: ENABLE holds 77 of the matches, Collins 91, and NWL2023 81. The combined total is 94, not a promise that every game accepts every entry. For a quick shortlist, start with the common words; for a score hunt, inspect the high-value examples and verify your game’s word list.