5 Letter Words With CH In Them: All 358 Words

Amelia Wright
9 Min Read

TCH ends thirty-nine of the 5 letter words with CH in them, and NCH ends twenty-seven. Match, Catch and Watch end in TCH, while Bunch, Punch and Lunch end in NCH.

Watch, Child, March, Match and Chief are the strongest Wordle picks with CH, since each adds three new letters beside C and H. In Scrabble, Chizz scores 28 points, with Quich and Zilch at 19.

5 letter words with ch in them, in English: Beach, Check, March, Punch, and Which, each with CH together.
5 Letter Words With CH In Them
Advertisement

5 Letter Words With CH In Them

These are the familiar 5 letter words with CH in them. Sixteen of these thirty words start with C.

Which Watch Check
Child March Match
Chief China Coach
Reach Beach Touch
Catch Cheap Chair
Teach Lunch Chain
Bunch Chose Chest
Chart Chase Pitch
Bench Punch Chaos
Chips Patch Chill

5 Letter Words With CH In Them By Position

CH starts 146 of the 358 words and ends 135, and the other 77 have CH in the middle. Chich starts and ends with CH, so it is listed once, among the words starting with CH.

Words Starting With CH And Ending In A To N

Twenty of these seventy-two words end in E.

Chana Chara Chaya
Cheka Chela Chica
China Chola Chota
Chufa Chimb Chard
Child Chord Chynd
Chace Chafe Chape
Chare Chase Chave
Chere Chide Chile
Chime Chine Chive
Chode Choke Chore
Chose Chuse Chute
Chyle Chyme Chaff
Chief Choof Chuff
Chang Ching Cheth
Chich Chili Choli
Chack Chalk Chank
Chark Chawk Check
Cheek Chick Chink
Chirk Chock Chook
Chowk Chuck Chunk
Chiel Chill Chirl
Choil Churl Charm
Chasm Chirm Choom
Chain Choon Churn

Words Starting With CH And Ending In O To Z

Fourteen of these seventy-four words are familiar.

Chaco Chado Chemo
Chiao Chico Chimo
Chino Chiro Choco
Choko Champ Cheap
Cheep Chelp Chimp
Chirp Chomp Chump
Chair Charr Cheer
Chirr Choir Churr
Chads Chais Chals
Chams Chaos Chaps
Chars Chats Chavs
Chaws Chays Chefs
Chems Chess Chews
Chias Chibs Chics
Chiks Chins Chips
Chits Chivs Chocs
Chogs Chons Chops
Chows Chubs Chugs
Chums Chuts Chaft
Chant Chapt Chart
Cheat Chert Chest
Chirt Chott Chout
Chiru Choux Chary
Chevy Chewy Chivy
Choky Chizz

Words With CH In The Middle

One of these seventy-seven words has a K, J, Q, X or Z, which is worth five points or more in Scrabble.

Achar Ached Aches
Achoo Ancho Archi
Bacha Bachs Buchu
Cache Dacha Dicht
Docht Duchy Eched
Eches Echos Elchi
Fecht Fiche Fichu
Hecht Iched Iches
Ichor Itchy Kacha
Lichi Licht Loche
Lochs Mache Machi
Macho Machs Mechs
Miche Micht Mocha
Mochi Mochs Mochy
Mucho Nache Nacho
Niche Nicht Nucha
Ocher Oches Ochre
Ochry Oucht Owche
Pacha Pechs Rache
Richt Ruche Schav
Schmo Schul Schwa
Sechs Shchi Sicht
Tache Tacho Tachs
Techs Techy Tichy
Vichy Wecht Yacht
Yechs Yechy

Words Ending In CH And Starting With A To K

Twenty-three of these sixty-one words repeat a letter.

Aitch Batch Beach
Beech Belch Bench
Biach Birch Bitch
Blech Botch Brach
Broch Bunch Butch
Catch Cinch Clach
Coach Conch Cooch
Couch Culch Curch
Cutch Cwtch Daych
Dench Ditch Dunch
Dutch Epoch Felch
Fetch Filch Finch
Fitch Ganch Gatch
Gauch Ginch Gitch
Gonch Gotch Gouch
Gulch Hanch Hatch
Hench Heuch Hilch
Hitch Hooch Hotch
Hunch Hutch Keech
Kench Ketch Kotch
Kutch

Words Ending In CH And Starting With L To Z

Twenty-five of these seventy-four words have exactly two vowels.

Laich Lanch Larch
Latch Lauch Leach
Leech Letch Leuch
Linch Loach Luach
Lunch Lurch Lynch
March Match Merch
Milch Misch Mitch
Mooch Mouch Mulch
Munch Mutch Natch
Nauch Notch Orach
Parch Patch Peach
Perch Pilch Pinch
Pitch Poach Pooch
Porch Potch Pouch
Psych Punch Quich
Ranch Ratch Reach
Reech Retch Roach
Rotch Runch Sauch
Stich Synch Teach
Tench Teuch Titch
Torch Touch Vauch
Vetch Vouch Watch
Welch Wench Which
Winch Witch Yecch
Yucch Zilch

Related: 5 Letter Words Ending In CH

Best 5 Letter Words With CH In Them For Wordle

Of the 358 words, eighty-two repeat a letter, as Catch, Which and Chick do, so the picks are limited to words with five different letters. Eight of the twelve picks have exactly two vowels.

Watch Child
March Match
Chief China
Reach Beach
Touch Cheap
Chair Teach

Highest Scoring 5 Letter Words With CH In Them In Scrabble

Chizz leads at 28 points, and Quich and Zilch follow at 19, then Chawk, Choky, Choux and Chowk at 17.

Word Points
Chizz 28
Quich 19
Zilch 19
Chawk 17
Choky 17
Choux 17
Chowk 17

Meanings Of 5 Letter Words With CH In Them

Each word is defined in its everyday sense.

Word Meaning
Beach A sandy shore
Bench A long seat
Bunch A group tied together
Catch To seize something moving
Chain Linked metal rings
Chair A seat with a back
Chaos Total disorder
Chart A diagram of data
Chase To pursue
Cheap Low in price
Check To examine
Chest The upper front of the body, or a large box
Chief Highest in rank
Child A young person
Chill A cold feeling, or to relax
China Fine porcelain
Chips Small fried potato pieces, or fragments
Chose Picked
Coach A trainer, or a long-distance bus
Lunch A midday meal
March To walk in step, or the third month
Match A contest, or something that suits another
Patch A piece of cloth for mending
Pitch To throw, or a sports field
Punch A strike with the fist, or a drink
Reach To stretch out to touch
Teach To give lessons
Touch To feel with the hand
Watch To look at, or a wrist timepiece
Which Asking about a choice from a set

FAQs

How many 5 letter words with CH in them are there?

There are 358 in total. Sixty-seven are familiar words such as Which, Watch and Check, and the other 291 are rarer terms accepted in Scrabble.

What are the best CH words for Wordle?

The strongest are Watch, Child, March, Match and Chief. Each has five different letters, so a single guess tests three new tiles beside C and H.

Which CH word scores highest in Scrabble?

The highest score is 28 points, from Chizz. Quich and Zilch are next at 19, and Chawk, Choky, Choux and Chowk follow at 17.

How many 5 letter words start with CH?

There are 146, such as Check, Child, Chief and China. Thirty-two of them are familiar words.

How many 5 letter words end in CH?

There are 136, such as Which, Watch, March and Match. Thirty-two of them are familiar words.

Which final letter ends the most CH words?

H is the final letter of 137 of the 358 words, ahead of S with 47 and E with 32. These three letters end 216 of the 358 words.

Which CH words start with CHA?

There are forty-one, such as Chair, Chain, Chart, Chase and Chaos. Chair, Chain and Chart are the most familiar.

How many CH words repeat a letter?

There are eighty-two that repeat a letter, out of the 358 words. Catch, Which and Chick are three of them.

Related:

Advertisement
Share This Article
Follow:
Amelia Wright writes the daily word game challenges at Englishan.com, bringing an MA in Linguistics and five years of puzzle writing and editing to every grid. A devoted Wordle player with an enduring fascination for how words behave under pressure, she has a keen instinct for what players will recognize, overlook, or second guess. Her puzzles favor clever turns, familiar vocabulary, and the quiet satisfaction of a win that feels thoroughly earned.