This list holds 15,206 words, 8.8% of the 172,634 words this site keeps from the ENABLE word list. Every word here has 6 letters, and they average 6 letters by construction — so the interesting differences are in which letters they use. Of the 14 lists in this group it is the 6th largest: “8 letter words” leads with 28,394 and “2 letter words” has the fewest, 96. 26 words that would also fit were left out by this site's blocklist of slurs and explicit words.

Points and vowels

Using this site's letter values, the average word here scores 11 points (median 11); words of the same lengths across the whole list average 11, so this list scores the same as the dictionary. The top scorers are BEZAZZ (30), JAZZED (30), JAZZER (29), JAZZES (29). Point for point, BEZAZZ earns the most per letter: 30 points over 6 letters, 5 each.

Vowels (A, E, I, O, U) make up 37% of the letters, against 38% across the whole list. 270 words are more than half vowels. 21 words have none of them at all, leaning on Y instead — for example CRWTHS, CRYPTS, FLYBYS and FLYSCH. Compared with the whole dictionary, the letter most over-represented here is K: 1.5% of the letters, against 0.8% overall.

How the words are built

Position by position, the most likely letters are S in slot 1 (11.8%), A in slot 2 (17.6%), R in slot 3 (9.6%), I in slot 4 (11.7%), E in slot 5 (30.8%), S in slot 6 (28.1%). 7,250 words use 6 different letters with none repeated (47.7%); the rest repeat at least one, and the most common double is EE (385 words). The most common three-letter openings are CAR- (59, as in CARACK), CHA- (59, as in CHABUK), STA- (58, as in STABLE). The most common endings are -ING (381, as in AAHING), -ERS (310, as in ADDERS), -TER (195, as in ABATER). 27.9% end in a single S — mostly plurals and verb forms of shorter words.

Word play in this list

The biggest anagram family here is ALERTS, ALTERS, ARTELS, ESTRAL, LASTER, RATELS, SALTER and 4 more — 11 words from the same 6 letters. Altogether 2,238 sets of anagrams sit inside this list, covering 5,502 words. It contains 7 palindromes, read the same both ways: DENNED, HALLAH, MARRAM, PULLUP, REDDER and SELLES. 84 words turn into another real word when spelled backwards — AGENES becomes SENEGA, ANIMAL becomes LAMINA, ANIMES becomes SEMINA, DEGAMI becomes IMAGED. AARRGH is the longest word here that uses only one kind of vowel, ahead of ABACAS.

41.6% of these words take an S on the end and stay a word (ABASER, ABASIA and ABATER among them); after S, the most useful end letter is D, which extends 708 words. At the front, S turns 410 words into new ones (ADDLED → SADDLED); P turns 212 words into new ones (ACTION → PACTION); C turns 204 words into new ones (ACHING → CACHING).

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