6 Letter Words
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6,306 six-letter words — 2,544 common
Showing the 150 most common of 6,306. Use the letters, the length and the boxes above to narrow the list, or turn on JavaScript to see every word.
Tap a word to see what it means. Word list: about 52,000 English words found in Wikipedia; common words are the ones seen most often. Meanings: WordNet 3.0 (Princeton University).
Popular 6-letter word searches
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Starts with am ba ca ch co de in la ma mo pa ra re se sh sp st th un
Ends with al ch de ed en er es et ie le ls ly ng ns on rs te ts us
Word List
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6 Letter Words is a free list of 6,306 six-letter English words, from 6 letter A words to words ending in A. It runs in your browser, needs no sign-up, and nothing you type is sent anywhere. Use it when you need a six-letter word that starts with a certain letter, has a letter in a set position, or contains or avoids certain letters.
The list is built from about 54,000 English words, filtered to words seen in Wikipedia. Common words appear first, and rarer words are shown in grey. Letter chips, position boxes and extra filters narrow the results, and a count line above the list shows how many words match. You can start with a broad search and tighten it until the list fits your puzzle, game or spelling check.
How to use the 6 Letter Words list
- Pick a first letter with the A–Z chips, or keep the All chip selected to see every six-letter word.
- Type a letter into a position box to fix that spot. For example, type S in box 1 for words starting with S, or type E in box 5 for E as the fifth letter. Empty boxes mean any letter.
- Use Starts with, Ends with or Contains to require letters or a pattern. Each accepts up to 12 letters.
- Use Leave out to remove words containing certain letters. It accepts up to 26 letters.
- If you have tiles, type them in Letters I have so only words you can build appear. Enter ? for a blank tile.
- Open the Vowels menu and choose a rule, such as Exactly 2 or 4 or more.
- Tick Common words only to hide rarer words. Set Sort to Common first or A–Z.
- Click Show Words. Results show a count line and the first 300 words. Use Show more or Show all to see the rest.
- Click any word to see its part of speech and short definitions.
Copy List copies your results with one word per line. Clear resets every filter. The search is saved in the address bar, so a bookmarked or shared link opens the same list. Printed lists are free for commercial use too, for example in KDP books or Etsy printables.
How many 6 letter words are there in this list?
There are 6,306 six-letter words in this list. That count covers only the words in this tool’s word list, not every six-letter word that exists in all dictionaries.
Every filter you add reduces the count. The count line above the results tells you how many words match your current settings, so you can see the effect of each change.
Are there 6 letter words ending in A?
Yes. 234 six-letter words in the list end in A, and 38 of them are common. To find them, type A in the Ends with box, or leave the All chip selected and combine the Ends with filter with a first-letter chip.
Are there 6 letter words with all five vowels?
No six-letter word in the list contains all five vowels, A, E, I, O and U. Five vowels take up five of the six letters, which leaves only one consonant. English rarely arranges words that way, so none appear here.
To get close, open the Vowels menu and choose 4 or more. Set Sort to Most vowels first to see the most vowel-heavy words at the top.
How do I find 6 letter words with J or S?
Type J in the Contains box to find six-letter words with a J anywhere. Use the first position box if you want the J at the start, or Ends with for the end.
For S, use the same method. Type S in Starts with, Ends with or Contains, depending on where the S must appear. Use Leave out with S if you want words that avoid it.
Can I print a list of 6 letter words?
Yes. Print List creates a clean, printable sheet titled to match your search, for example “6-Letter Words Starting with C”. It prints up to 1,500 words.
Tick Show meanings before printing to add a short definition under each word, both on the page and on the printed sheet.
Frequently asked questions
Are all the words on this list real English words?
The list comes from a public-domain word list filtered to words seen in Wikipedia. Some entries are uncommon, so check any word you plan to use in a formal setting.
What do the grey words mean?
Grey words are rarer. Tick Common words only to hide them, or set Sort to Common first to keep them at the bottom.
Why does a word show no definition?
Some short function words have no definition on file. The word still appears in the list, but no meaning is shown.
How do I see 5 to 6 letter words together?
This page only shows six-letter words. Set Min length 5 and Max length 6 in the Word Finder to see both lengths in one list.
Does the tool send my letters anywhere?
No. Nothing you type is sent anywhere, and the tool runs in your browser.
Can I search with blank tiles?
Yes. Enter ? in Letters I have to stand in for a blank tile. The list then includes words that fit your other letters with any letter in that spot.
Does it cost anything?
No. The tool is free and requires no sign-up.
Can I use the printed word lists for commercial purposes, such as Amazon KDP or Etsy?
Yes. Word lists you make here are free to use for any purpose, including classroom packs, KDP puzzle and activity books, Etsy printables and print-on-demand products, royalty-free and with no attribution needed. The only limit is that you may not copy the tool itself to run a competing service.
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About letter frequency in English
Letter frequency is the number of times letters of the alphabet appear on average in written language. Letter frequency analysis dates back to the Arab mathematician Al-Kindi (c. AD 801–873), who formally developed the method to break ciphers. Letter frequency analysis gained importance in Europe with the development of movable type in AD 1450, wherein one must estimate the amount of type required for each letterform. Linguists use letter frequency analysis as a rudimentary technique for language identification, where it is particularly effective as an indication of whether an unknown writing system is alphabetic, syllabic, or logographic.
The use of letter frequencies and frequency analysis plays a fundamental role in cryptograms and several word puzzle games, including hangman, Scrabble, Wordle and the television game show Wheel of Fortune. One of the earliest descriptions in classical literature of applying the knowledge of English letter frequency to solving a cryptogram is found in Edgar Allan Poe's famous story "The Gold-Bug", where the method is successfully applied to decipher a message giving the location of a treasure hidden by Captain Kidd.
Herbert S. Zim, in his classic introductory cryptography text Codes and Secret Writing, gives the English letter frequency sequence as "ETAON RISHD LFCMU GYPWB VKJXZQ", the most common letter pairs as "TH HE AN RE ER IN ON AT ND ST ES EN OF TE ED OR TI HI AS TO", and the most common doubled letters as "LL EE SS OO TT FF RR NN PP CC". Different ways of counting can produce somewhat different orders.
Letter frequencies also have a strong effect on the design of some keyboard layouts. The most frequent letters are placed on the home row of the Blickensderfer typewriter, the Dvorak keyboard layout, Colemak and other layouts optimized for common English typing, while the commonly used QWERTY layout was instead optimized for transcribing telegraphs.
Background
The frequency of letters in text has been studied for use in cryptanalysis, and frequency analysis in particular, dating back to the Arab mathematician al-Kindi (c. AD 801–873 ), who formally developed the method (the ciphers breakable by this technique go back at least to the Caesar cipher used by Julius Caesar, so this method could have been explored in classical times). Letter frequency analysis gained additional importance in Europe with the development of movable type in AD 1450, wherein one must estimate the amount of type required for each letterform, as evidenced by the variations in letter compartment size in typographer's type cases.
No exact letter frequency distribution underlies a given language, since all writers write slightly differently. However, most languages have a characteristic distribution which is strongly apparent in longer texts. Even language changes as extreme as from Old English to modern English (regarded as mutually unintelligible) show strong trends in related letter frequencies: over a small sample of Biblical passages, from most frequent to least frequent, of Old English compares to of modern English, with the most extreme differences concerning letterforms not shared.
Linotype machines for the English language assumed the letter order, from most to least common, to be based on the experience and custom of manual compositors. The equivalent for the French language was.
Arranging the alphabet in Morse into groups of letters that require equal amounts of time to transmit, and then sorting these groups in increasing order, yields. Letter frequency was used by other telegraph systems, such as the Murray Code.
Similar ideas are used in modern data-compression techniques such as Huffman coding.
Text adapted from the Wikipedia article “Letter frequency” (revision 1357626460, 2026-06-03), authors, licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0. Shortened: some sections and paragraphs were left out, and reference markers, images and templates were removed; wording is otherwise unchanged. This text remains available under the same licence.