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Common 9-letter words that start with C
With their Scrabble points: the 16 most used that have a meaning, with a short one, then the rest, most used first.
- copyright 20a document granting exclusive right to publish and sell literary or musical or artistic…
- community 18a unified group of people
- committee 15a special group delegated to consider some matter
- companies 15an institution created to conduct business
- computers 15a machine that computes automatically
- currently 14in a current manner
- corporate 13of or belonging to a corporation
- customers 13one who buys something
- countries 11the territory of a nation
- condition 12a state at a particular time
- completed 16come or bring to a finish or an end
- character 16an imaginary person represented in a work of fiction (play or film or story)
- continued 12to go on with
- component 15an abstract part of something
- challenge 15to question the validity of
- certified 15to confirm
All 3,960 words, A to Z
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CA… (877)
Top score: CARJACKED, 25 points (tied with one other). Meaning: to steal a vehicle from its driver by force
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CE… (158)
Top score: CELECOXIB, 22 points (tied with one other). Meaning: a Cox-2 inhibitor (trade name Celebrex) that relieves pain and inflammation without…
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CH… (561)
Top score: CHAZZANIM, 34 points (tied with one other). Meaning: a cantor
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CI… (107)
Top score: CIVILIZED, 24 points. Meaning: having a high state of culture and development both social and technological
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CL… (278)
Top score: CLOCKWORK, 24 points. Meaning: any mechanism of geared wheels that is driven by a coiled spring
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CO… (1,317)
Top score: COXCOMBRY, 27 points
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CR… (374)
Top score: CRACKJAWS, 27 points (tied with one other)
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CU… (179)
Top score: CUFFUFFLE, 23 points
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CY… (99)
Top score: CYCLIZING, 26 points. Meaning: to form one or more rings in a chemical compound
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CZ… (5)
Top score: CZARITZAS, 29 points. Meaning: a czarina
About these words
- 3,960 of the 43,135 9-letter words start with C (9%), the second most of any letter.
- 2,941 are good in NWL2023, 3,958 in Collins Scrabble Words and 2,351 in ENABLE. 264 are everyday words.
- In Scrabble points, chazzanim and chazzenim share the top score (34), then chiarezza and chiarezze (32 each), then two words on 29.