6-letter words with A as the 3rd letter and A as the 5th letter

Lock in the pattern _ _ A _ A _ and you’ll narrow a six-letter rack to 106 matches. The set includes familiar choices such as AVATAR, DRAMAS, and LLAMAS, alongside less common entries like SHAZAM and SWARAJ. S is the most frequent opening letter, while S also dominates the final position.

The pattern at a glance

• There are 106 matches with A fixed in positions three and five.
• S leads the first-letter group with 20 words; A follows with 17.
• S ends 51 matches, far more than the next ending, L, with 14.
• Only 5 matches are in the top 25,000 English words by frequency.

How many 6-letter words have A in the 3rd and 5th spots?

The pattern has 106 tournament-dictionary matches. Its word endings are strikingly uneven: 51 end in S, while 14 end in L and 12 in N. If the final tile is still unknown, testing S first covers the largest ending group by a wide margin.

Dictionary coverage varies across those entries. Collins includes 99, NWL2023 includes 71, and ENABLE includes 60; the totals overlap, so they do not add up to 106. Check your game's word list before relying on an unfamiliar match, especially when playing across different lexicons.

Which matching words score most?

SHAZAM and CHAZAN share the highest base score at 20 points each. GHAZAL follows at 19, while BHAJAN scores 18. These unusual spellings offer a sharp scoring contrast with everyday-looking matches such as AVATAR; the letter pattern alone does not predict a word’s value.

The common-word count is just 5 out of 106, leaving 101 matches outside that frequency group. For 6-letter words with A as the 3rd letter and A as the 5th letter, start with recognizable options like DRAMAS or SEAMAN, then inspect less familiar candidates against your game’s dictionary. The five-letter version of this same pattern has 54 matches; the seven-letter version has 150.