6-letter words with C as the 5th letter and H as the 6th letter

The fixed ending makes this a sharply defined search: every answer is six letters long and finishes CH, but the first four letters vary widely. Familiar options include church, speech, launch, and switch; less obvious entries raise the Scrabble ceiling. Dictionary coverage differs, so a word appearing in one tournament list is not guaranteed in another.

At a glance: the final CH cluster

• 141 tournament-dictionary entries match the pattern.
• Collins includes 140; NWL2023 includes 100 and ENABLE includes 96.
• 29 entries rank among the top 25,000 English words by frequency.
• Church, speech, launch, and switch are familiar examples.
• Quench and quaich both reach the top Scrabble score here: 20 points.

6-letter words with C as the 5th letter and H as the 6th letter

The 141 matches span the tournament lists, but dictionary coverage is uneven: Collins has 140, compared with 100 in NWL2023 and 96 in ENABLE. Those source counts overlap; they are not separate piles to add.

S leads the starting letters with 34 words, while C begins 19 and B begins 12. A first-letter clue for S still leaves a large group; the C-starting subset is smaller. Familiar examples include search, speech, stitch, and switch, but only 29 entries meet the frequency cutoff, so many answers will feel specialist.

The final letter offers no further sorting: all 141 entries end in H. If you know the fifth letter is C but not the last one, related searches ending in E, S, or K have 94, 68, and 67 matches. Changing that final tile reshapes the candidate set.

Which C-H words score the most?

Quench, quaich, quelch, quatch, quetch, quitch, and queach each score 20 points, the highest value shown for this pattern. Their Q-heavy spellings are far less familiar than church or french, so the score alone does not make them safe plays. Check the word list used by your game: this total combines tournament dictionaries, and not every entry appears in every one.

• Try church, french, or search when you need a familiar candidate.
• Keep quench in mind for a 20-point scoring opportunity; board bonuses change the final total.
• Treat less familiar forms such as quaich as dictionary-dependent, not automatic plays.