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

The fixed slots give you a compact pattern: C _ _ _ H _ _. Familiar entries include clothes, coaches, catches, and crushed, but only 14 of the 74 words rank among common English words. Check the middle letters first, then use the final letter to narrow your search.

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

• The pattern has 74 tournament-dictionary entries, with C first and H fifth.
• Only 14 entries fall within the top 25,000 English words by frequency.
• S is the most common final letter, ending 29 words; D follows with 13.
• Coverage varies by dictionary: Collins has 72 entries, NWL2023 has 58, and ENABLE has 50.

Which words fit this C-and-H pattern?

Start with recognizable forms such as clothes, coaches, coached, catches, crashed, and crushed. Several entries are related forms: crashes and clashed share the same fixed letters, while clothed sits beside clothes. Those familiar examples make the pattern easier to scan than an alphabetical search alone.

Use the last letter as a second filter. S leads with 29 matches, while D has 13; R and E follow with 10 and 8. If your clue ends in S, try candidates such as coaches, catches, or crashes before reaching for a less familiar entry.

How should you narrow a C-first, H-fifth clue?

Write the pattern as C _ _ _ H _ _, then fill the known ending if you have one. For an S ending, the 29-word group is the largest place to look. Familiar candidates include clothes, coaches, catches, and crashes; compare the three open middle slots against your crossing letters.

The list is much smaller than nearby patterns: C with I in the fifth position has 547 matches, compared with 74 here. That sharp drop makes the fifth letter a strong filter. Still, the 14 common entries are a minority, so an unfamiliar candidate is not automatically a miss.