4-letter words with G as the 2nd letter
Thirty-five four-letter words have G as the second letter, and AG- opens 17 of them.
6 of 35 are everyday words (17%). A mix of familiar words and game-only finds.
A is the most common 2nd letter in 4-letter words (1,057 words); Q is the rarest (1). The bar under each letter shows the size of its list.
Best words to play first
- AGES5
- AGED6
- EGGS6
- UGLY8
- EGOS5
- OGRE5
- AGAR5
- AGRO5
- OGLE5
- AGHA8
- AGEN5
- AGEE5
- AGER5
- AGIN5
- EGGY9
- AGON5
- AGOG6
- EGER5
- IGAD6
- OGEE5
- AGUE5
- EGAL5
- EGAD6
- AGAS5
- AGIO5
- EGIS5
- AGMA7
- IGGS6
- OGAM7
- IGLU5
- UGHS8
- AGLU5
- AGLY8
- EGMA7
- YGOE8
All valid words 35
Highest-scoring words
Age and its relatives dominate, with ages, aged, ager and agee all present alongside eggs, egos, ugly and ogre. G is the seventeenth busiest second letter at this length, behind T on 55 and K on 43. Only six of the 35 count as common English, and the average score is 5.9.
G second at four letters, in numbers
- 35 four-letter words put G second, seventeenth among the middle letters.
- AG- opens 17 of them, then EG- 8, OG- 4, IG- 3 and UG- 2.
- Only 6 are common English: ages, aged, eggs, ugly, egos and ogre.
- S closes 7 words and E closes 6, more than any other ending.
- EGGY leads on 9 points, with UGLY, AGHA, UGHS, AGLY and YGOE on 8.
Why AG- carries half the list
The AG- run supplies 17 of the 35 words. It splits into the age family, aged, agee, agen, ager and ages, plus an older layer in agar, agio, agro, agon and ague.
The other openings are much thinner. EG- gives eight words, among them eggs, egos, egis and egad, while OG-, IG-, UG- and YG- between them cover ten.
A weak slot for big scores
G pays two points and the vowels around it pay one each, so the ceiling here stays low. eggy takes 9 with a doubled G and a Y, and nothing else passes 8; agma, ogam and egma hold 7.
The average is 5.9 against 7.7 for four-letter words overall, which makes G-second a slot for fillers rather than big plays. Collins takes 34 of the 35, NWL2023 31 and ENABLE 28, with igad, agen, egma and ygoe needing Collins.
Sort by opening before anything else
ages, aged, eggs and ogre are the four worth keeping in mind among these four-letter words with G second. Everything else is a plural or an old form, so read the list by opening letter.
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