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14 The C

The C can be a very useful letter to have. It combines well with other high-scoring letters H and K to give you the chance of a high score for just a four- or five-letter word. If you can play something like CHUNK or FLICK, with the K on a triple-letter square and the whole thing on a double-word square, you score 48 for that alone.

One drawback is the lack of those ever useful two-letter words: C only appears in one, the odd-looking CH, an obsolete South West of England pronoun meaning ‘I’.

High-scoring three- and four-letter words with a C include:

CAZ casual

COZ old form of cousin

COZE to chat

COX

COXA the hipbone

BACH to live the life of a bachelor

CHIB a knife; to stab with a knife

CHIV same as CHIB

CHAV (derogatory) working-class person who wears casual sports clothes

ZACK an Australian five-cent coin

EXEC an executive