This list holds 6,569 words, 3.8% 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 16 lists in this group it is the biggest; the next is “6 letter words with V” with 891, and the smallest is “4 letter words with Q” with 16. 6 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 10.8 points (median 10); words of the same lengths across the whole list average 11, so this list runs 0.2 points leaner. 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. A itself is worth 1 point here, so the score comes from the other letters.

Vowels (A, E, I, O, U) make up 39.1% of the letters, against 38% across the whole list. 169 words are more than half vowels. Compared with the whole dictionary, the letter most over-represented here is W: 1.2% of the letters, against 0.7% overall.

How the words are built

A opens 828 words (12.6%), closes 222 and sits inside the other 5,519. 864 words use it more than once, such as AAHING, AALIIS, AARRGH and ABACAS. 861 words have a doubled letter (13.1%); the most common doubles are LL (137), SS (88), TT (76). 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 (122, as in AAHING), -ERS (96, as in ADDERS), -ATE (81, as in ABLATE). 27.1% 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 1,052 sets of anagrams sit inside this list, covering 2,627 words. It contains 2 palindromes, read the same both ways: HALLAH and MARRAM. 26 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.

44.5% 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 258 words. At the front, S turns 164 words into new ones (ADDLED → SADDLED); C turns 92 words into new ones (ACHING → CACHING); P turns 80 words into new ones (ACTION → PACTION).

Using this list

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