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3-Letter Words Ending in C

There are 33 three-letter words ending in C on Word.ws, from arc to vic. The most common are doc, sec, dec, arc and pic.

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All 33 three-letter words ending in C

  • arc5n. That part of a circle which a heavenly body appears to pass through as...
  • bac7n. A broad, flat-bottomed ferryboat, usually worked by a rope.
  • bcc9v. To send something by blind carbon copy.
  • dec6adj. Declared.
  • doc6n. A doctor.
  • duc6n. A French duke.
  • fac8n. A faculty within a university.
  • fic8n. A fictional story set within a preexisting fandom; a fanfic.
  • gac6n. The Southeast Asian fruit Momordica cochinchinensis, a reddish spiny...
  • hdc9n. The headcase gene.
  • hic8interj. An approximation to the sound of a hiccup, used e.g. to indicate...
  • lac5n. A resinous substance or lacquer produced mainly on the banyan tree by...
  • loc5n. A dreadlock.
  • mic7n. A microfarad.
  • moc7n. Moccasin (type of shoe).
  • nic5n. Nicotine.
  • nuc5n. A nucleus colony; a small bee colony created from a larger colony.
  • onc5n. Oncology.
  • orc5n. A mythical evil monstrous humanoid creature, usually quite aggressive...
  • pac7n. A moccasin with a sole made of leather or deerskin.
  • pec7n. The pectoralis major muscle.
  • pic7n. A picture, especially a photographic image.
  • rec5v. To recommend.
  • roc5n. An enormous mythical bird in Eastern legend.
  • sac5n. A bag or pouch inside a plant or animal that typically contains a fluid.
  • sec5n. Second, ¹⁄₆₀ of a minute.
  • sic5adv. Thus; as written; used to indicate, for example, that text is being...
  • soc5n. Sociology or social science.
  • tac5n. The drug cannabis.
  • tic5n. A sudden, nonrhythmic motor movement or vocalization.
  • unc5n. A phenotype of Caenorhabditis elegans that moves in an uncoordinated...
  • vac8v. To vacuum; to clean with a vacuum cleaner.
  • vic8n. A victim of a homicide.
1 rare three-letter words ending in C

Questions about these words

How many three-letter words ending in C are there?
Word.ws lists 33 three-letter words ending in C, plus 1 rare ones.
What are common three-letter words ending in C?
doc, sec, dec, arc, pic, pac, vic and mic.
Which of the three-letter words ending in C has the highest letter score?
hdc scores 9 points with the standard letter tile values.

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Word lists and meanings adapted from the Wiktionary entry of each word. Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws left out names, abbreviations, misspellings and offensive words, and ordered the most common words by how often they appear in English (wordfreq). Meanings from Wiktionary; this is not an official Scrabble, Words With Friends or Wordle word list. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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