5 letter words starting with cod

Looking for a clue for todays Wordle or another Word game? Look no further! We got you covered. We got a few plausible five letter words starting with cod.

  • CODAS
  • CODEC
  • CODED
  • CODEN
  • CODER
  • CODES
  • CODEX
  • CODON

Sometimes the solution is an uncommon word, then It’s time to learn something new. Here’s the definition of a few of these words:

Definition of codas

codas (noun)

  1. A person born hearing to deaf parents.

codas (noun)

  1. A passage that brings a movement or piece to a conclusion through prolongation.
  2. The optional final part of a syllable, placed after its nucleus, and usually composed of one or more consonants.
  3. In seismograms, the gradual return to baseline after a seismic event. The length of the coda can be used to estimate event magnitude, and the shape sometimes reveals details of subsurface structures.
  4. A conclusion (of a statement or event, for example), final portion, tail end.

Definition of codec

codec (noun)

  1. A device or program capable of performing transformations on a data stream or signal.

Definition of coded

coded (verb)

  1. To write software programs.
  2. To add codes to a dataset.
  3. To categorise by assigning identifiers from a schedule, for example CPT coding for medical insurance purposes.
  4. To encode.
  5. To encode a protein.
  6. To call a hospital emergency code.

coded (verb)

  1. Of a patient, to suffer a sudden medical emergency (a code blue) such as cardiac arrest.

coded (adjective)

  1. Encoded; written in code or cipher.

Definition of coder

coder (noun)

  1. A device that generates a code, often as a series of pulses.
  2. A person who assigns codes or classifications.
  3. A programmer.

Definition of codon

codon (noun)

  1. A handbell used for summoning monks.
  2. The "bell" or flaring mouth of a trumpet.

codon (noun)

  1. A sequence of three adjacent nucleotides, which encode for a specific amino acid during protein synthesis or translation.