for i=1:5
word{i} = input('Enter word:\n','s');
end
Cell arrays can store mixed data types and of varying sizes. For example, a cell array can contain an n-by-m matrix as its first element and a scalar as its second element, or it can contain strings of varying length.
Cell arrays work very similarly to regular arrays. The small difference in the syntax is the use of curly braces { and } (see code above).