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

Almost every match is an -IC adjective grown from a Greek or Latin root: AGAMIC, CYANIC and ATAXIC sit beside everyday ARABIC, ITALIC and STATIC. That suffix gives the pattern its whole shape, and only GUAIAC breaks it. Scores stay modest at 10.5 points on average, so root knowledge pays better than tile hunting.

The -IC pattern at a glance

• All 23 matches end in C; 22 of them close with -IC.
• GUAIAC is the sole exception, ending in -IAC.
• ARABIC, STATIC and TRAGIC are the only common words here.
• OXALIC and ATAXIC share the top score of 15.
• NEANIC, OGAMIC and PHAEIC appear in Collins alone.

Why do so many 6-letter words with A third and C last end -IC?

Six-letter words ending in C form a small club: 293 of them across the tournament dictionaries, and 245 of those run to -IC. This pattern supplies 22 of that 245, each one built on the same adjective suffix. AGARIC and CYANIC show how far a single ending stretches, from mushroom names to chemistry.

GUAIAC is the odd one out. It came into English from a Tupi word for a resin, so it closes on -IAC while its neighbours close on -IC.

Initials spread thinly. A opens 5 matches and P opens 4, so those two letters cover nine of the 23 and the other fourteen divide one or two apiece.

Which of these -IC words are worth the tiles?

OXALIC and ATAXIC both score 15, and both draw 8 of those points from a single X tile. DYADIC follows at 13 on the strength of a Y, while PHASIC and PHATIC reach the same 13 on nothing rarer than H.

Below that, AGAMIC, ATAVIC and VIATIC share 11. The catch is familiarity: just three of these 6-letter words with A third and C last are everyday words, and NEANIC, OGAMIC and PHAEIC fail under NWL2023 and ENABLE alike.