127 five letter words end in C. Small group, and one letter combination dominates almost all of it.
127 words end in C, and 97 of them end specifically in -IC. That's not a majority, it's almost everything.
ADJECTIVES mostly. Words describing a category or style, CIVIC, CUBIC, MAGIC, PANIC. English borrowed this pattern heavily from Latin and Greek.
Outside of -IC, there's barely anything left.
Out of 2,315 real Wordle answers, 31 end in C, 1.3%.
Of the 127 words ending in C, 31 are real answers, a 24.4% hit rate. Solidly above average.
Most of the real answers lean on that same -IC pattern: ANTIC, CIVIC, CUBIC, MAGIC, MIMIC, PANIC.
ANTIC. CIVIC. CUBIC. MAGIC. MIMIC. PANIC.
All common, all real Wordle answers, all riding the same -IC ending.
ZYMIC tops the list at 21 points, a chemistry term related to fermentation. ZEBEC follows at 18, a type of small sailing ship.
XYLIC comes in at 17. All three are legitimate but obscure, exactly the kind of word a word solver 5 letters wide is built to surface.
IC- dominates completely at 97 words, dwarfing everything else. AC- is a distant second at 11, then EC- with 8, OC- with 7.
If you know a word ends in C, bet on -IC before anything else. It's not close.
The -IC pattern alone accounts for over three-quarters of this entire group.
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All 127 words sit below. Real Wordle answers are marked. Use the word finder above if you know another letter too, or scroll the full list.
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Data computed from a 12,974-word open-source dictionary and the 2,315-word Wordle answer list. Last updated August 26, 2026.