6-letter words with C as the 1st letter and R as the 2nd letter

The CR opening narrows the search to a mix of everyday words and less familiar entries. CREATE, CREDIT, CRISIS, and CRUISE are easy to recognize, but the full group is broader than common vocabulary. Only 36 entries fall among the most common English words, so use familiar examples as a starting point, not as a guide to every playable option.

At a glance: the CR pattern

• There are 194 six-letter entries with C first and R second across the tournament word lists.
• The group includes CREATE, CREDIT, CRISIS, CRYING, and CRUNCH.
• Words ending in S lead with 75 entries; Y is next with 33.
• Collins has 187 matches, compared with 147 in NWL2023 and 137 in ENABLE.

Which endings are common in this CR group?

S is the clear leader: 75 words end with that letter, more than twice the 33 ending in Y. Examples such as CRIMES, CRACKS, and CROWDS show how often the pattern takes a plural or verb form. CREATE and CRUISE, by contrast, finish with E.

The remaining endings are less frequent. D accounts for 12 entries, while H, L, N, and R each have fewer than ten. When a puzzle gives you the final letter, testing S or Y first follows the strongest split in this group; a different fixed ending quickly narrows the choices.

How to use 6-letter words with C first and R second

For a word puzzle, start with recognizable candidates such as CRISIS, CRUISE, CRATER, and CRADLE, then fit the known letters into their remaining slots. The count is smaller than for six-letter words beginning B-R or G-R: those patterns have 196 and 197 matches. That comparison makes C-R a focused clue, not an unusually large word family.

For tile scoring, the top entry is CROJIK at 19 points; CRAZED follows at 18. Those leaders are much less familiar than CRAPPY or CRANKY, each listed at 15 points.

The practical catch is that 194 counts words accepted by at least one tournament dictionary, not words shared by every game. Check your game's word list before relying on an obscure entry.