5-Letter Words With C and L
There are 285 five-letter words with C and L in them. The list below ranks them by real-world frequency, so everyday words like CLICK, COULD, LOCAL appear before the obscurities.
Every entry comes from the tournament word lists, the kind of list used in Wordle, Scrabble, and Words With Friends, so each one is a genuine dictionary word.
Most common
- click13
- could8
- local7
- black13
- place9
- class7
- child11
- color7
- close7
- clear7
- cable9
- block13
- civil10
- scale7
- clean7
- cells7
- calls7
- claim9
- clubs9
- clips9
All 285 words (the small number on each word is its Scrabble point value)
- cycle 12
- clock 13
- logic 8
- lunch 10
- chile 10
- excel 14
- lucky 14
- clerk 11
- cloud 8
- carol 7
- camel 9
- cloth 10
- clone 7
- vocal 10
- coral 7
- colin 7
- canal 7
- uncle 7
- lyric 10
- locks 11
- cliff 13
- focal 10
- elect 7
- climb 11
- lance 7
- colon 7
- lynch 13
- slice 7
- chili 10
- celeb 9
- chill 10
- cruel 7
- clamp 11
- clash 10
- lacks 11
- clown 10
- welch 13
- locus 7
- clues 7
- crawl 10
- flock 14
- chalk 14
- slick 11
- cello 7
- decal 8
- dolce 8
- curly 10
- flick 14
- colts 7
- slack 11
- latch 10
- lilac 7
- clans 7
- lacey 10
- leach 10
- coils 7
- cloak 11
- lycra 10
- colby 12
- scalp 9
- clasp 9
- ulcer 7
- claws 10
- colds 8
- licks 11
- telco 7
- lucid 8
- cline 7
- folic 10
- coles 7
- relic 7
- cling 8
- clogs 8
- pluck 13
- mulch 12
- cults 7
- laced 8
- cleft 10
- calif 10
- clams 9
- curls 7
- clove 10
- leech 10
- wilco 10
- cools 7
- gulch 11
- clout 7
- laces 7
- calla 7
- octal 7
- cabal 9
- clays 10
- coals 7
- colic 9
- clots 7
- nicol 7
- fleck 14
- celts 7
- flack 14
- licht 10
- carle 7
- cleat 7
- clung 8
- glace 8
- clump 11
- linac 7
- cyclo 12
- clary 10
- clave 10
- culpa 9
- clift 10
- locum 9
- scaly 10
- klick 15
- larch 10
- clank 11
- locos 7
- clade 8
- calyx 17
- clack 13
- caulk 11
- claro 7
- blocs 9
- calms 9
- tical 7
- creel 7
- lurch 10
- clang 8
- coble 9
- iliac 7
- oleic 7
- octyl 10
- scull 7
- lytic 10
- scold 8
- loach 10
- clink 11
- cilia 7
- comal 9
- cella 7
- claps 9
- colas 7
- ducal 8
- cluck 13
- malic 9
- clued 8
- eclat 7
- cully 10
- zilch 19
- scowl 10
- belch 12
- clefs 10
- chela 10
- dolci 8
- scald 8
- culex 14
- flics 10
- lochs 10
- lucre 7
- cloze 16
- copal 9
- ceili 7
- milch 12
- clast 7
- telic 7
- clews 10
- carls 7
- clunk 11
- celli 7
- clime 9
- licit 7
- calve 10
- calix 14
- chola 10
- culls 7
- cooly 10
- coyly 13
- luces 7
- clods 8
- colly 10
- cecal 9
- culms 9
- cholo 10
- cowls 10
- alack 11
- lucks 11
- filch 13
- chiel 10
- oculi 7
- lacer 7
- schul 10
- lycee 10
- pical 9
- sculp 9
- cavil 10
- cleek 11
- culti 7
- ludic 8
- letch 10
- plack 13
- sulci 7
- icily 10
- churl 10
- lotic 7
- culet 7
- socle 7
- clach 12
- flocs 10
- colza 16
- acold 8
- acyls 10
- alcid 8
- alecs 7
- aulic 7
- calfs 10
- calks 11
- calos 7
- cauld 8
- cauls 7
- ceils 7
- celom 9
- ceorl 7
- chyle 13
- cibol 9
- clads 8
- clags 8
- clapt 9
- clavi 10
- clepe 9
- clept 9
- clipt 9
- clomb 11
- clomp 11
- clonk 11
- clons 7
- cloot 7
- clops 9
- clour 7
- cloys 10
- coala 7
- coaly 10
- coled 8
- colog 8
- coxal 14
- craal 7
- culch 12
- cupel 9
- cylix 17
- cymol 12
- ileac 7
- jacal 14
- laich 10
- laics 7
- lichi 10
- lycea 10
- macle 9
- melic 9
- mulct 9
- picul 9
- plica 9
- salic 7
- scall 7
- sculk 11
- talcs 7
- yclad 11
Points use Scrabble US letter values
Frequently asked questions
How many five-letter words are there with C and L in them?
There are 285 five-letter words with C and L in them in the tournament word lists. The most common are CLICK, COULD, LOCAL.
What are common five-letter words with C and L in them?
CLICK, COULD, LOCAL, BLACK, PLACE are the most frequently used. The full list of 285 words on this page is sorted by everyday frequency, so the common ones come first.
Why are the words in this order?
Words are ranked by how often they appear in a trillion-word corpus of written English, most common first. That surfaces likely puzzle answers instead of hiding them mid-alphabet. Use the sort control to switch to alphabetical or points order.