4 Letter Words Starting with C

Common four-letter words that start with C

The 50 most used in spoken English (SUBTLEX-US), with a short meaning.

• come 8/10 move toward, travel toward something or somebody or approach something or somebody
• call 6/9 assign a specified (usually proper) proper name to
• care 6/7 the work of providing treatment for or attending to someone or something
• came 8/10
• case 6/7 an occurrence of something
• cool 6/8 make cool or cooler
• city 9/9 a large and densely populated urban area
• cold 7/9 having a low or inadequate temperature or feeling a sensation of coldness or having been made cold by e.g. ice or…
• club 8/12 a team of professional baseball players who play and travel together
• calm 8/11 make calm or still
• cute 6/8 attractive especially by means of smallness or prettiness or quaintness
• card 7/8 one of a set of small pieces of stiff paper marked in various ways and used for playing games or for telling fortunes
• cops 8/10 (form of cop) uncomplimentary terms for a policeman
• cash 9/9 money in the form of bills or coins
• crap 8/10 obscene terms for feces
• cost 6/7 the total spent for goods or services including money and time and labor
• cell 6/9 any small compartment
• code 7/8 a set of rules or principles or laws (especially written ones)
• copy 11/12 a reproduction of a written record (e.g. of a legal or school record)
• camp 10/13 temporary living quarters specially built by the army for soldiers
• crew 9/10 the men and women who man a vehicle (ship, aircraft, etc.)
• cars 6/7 (form of car) a motor vehicle with four wheels
• cook 10/11 prepare a hot meal
• cake 10/11 a block of solid substance (such as soap or wax)
• coat 6/7 an outer garment that has sleeves and covers the body from shoulder down
• cole 6/8 a hardy cabbage with coarse curly leaves that do not form a head
• carl 6/8
• cast 6/7 put or send forth
• cure 6/8 provide a cure for, make healthy again
• chip 11/12 a small fragment of something broken off from the whole
• cage 7/9 an enclosure made or wire or metal bars in which birds or animals can be kept
• cats 6/7 (form of cat) feline mammal usually having thick soft fur and no ability to roar: domestic cats
• coke 10/11 carbon fuel produced by distillation of coal
• clue 6/9 a slight indication
• chat 9/9 talk socially without exchanging too much information
• corn 6/8 tall annual cereal grass bearing kernels on large ears: widely cultivated in America in many varieties
• cave 9/11 a geological formation consisting of an underground enclosure with access from the surface of the ground or from the sea
• chop 11/12 cut into pieces
• chin 9/10 the protruding part of the lower jaw
• coma 8/10 a state of deep and often prolonged unconsciousness
• clay 9/10 a very fine-grained soil that is plastic when moist but hard when fired
• chef 12/12 a professional cook
• cuts 6/8 (form of cut) separate with or as if with an instrument
• coop 8/10 a farm building for housing poultry
• core 6/7 a small group of indispensable persons or things
• coin 6/8 a flat metal piece (usually a disc) used as money
• cent 6/8 a fractional monetary unit of several countries
• cows 9/10 domesticated bovine animals as a group regardless of sex or age
• chew 12/12 chew (food)
• cart 6/7 a heavy open wagon usually having two wheels and drawn by an animal

All 227 four-letter words that start with C

Numbers are Scrabble points, then Words With Friends points.