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

SEASON, REASON, SHADOW, and DRAGON make the pattern easy to recognize: A occupies the third slot and O the fifth. Fourteen of the 83 matches are common, while the rest range from familiar words such as WEAPON and MEADOW to less everyday entries. The list draws from tournament dictionaries, so a match is not automatically accepted in every game's word list.

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

• There are 83 matches for the fixed A _ O positions.
• Only 14 matches are classed as common.
• S begins 17 entries, more than any other starting letter.
• N finishes 25 entries, the most frequent ending.
• QUAHOG leads the Scrabble scores at 19 points.

Which starting and ending letters appear most?

SEASON, REASON, BEACON, and DEACON are recognizable S- and B-starting examples. S leads with 17 matches, followed by C at 10; A begins 7. That makes S a strong first letter to test when your clue leaves the opening slot unknown.

At the other end, 25 words finish in N and 19 in S; R follows with 12. AMAZON, DRAGON, and CRAYON show how varied the N-ending group is. The same fixed-letter pattern has 21 five-letter matches and 167 seven-letter matches, putting this six-letter set between a smaller and a larger length variant.

What scores well, and where can you play these words?

QUAHOG scores 19 points in Scrabble, ahead of AMAZON, KLAXON, and BLAZON at 17 each. Those scores reward the Q or Z, but QUAHOG is a less familiar word than SEASON or REASON, so check its meaning before relying on it in a casual game.

The 83 matches come from words appearing in at least one tournament list: Collins includes 82, NWL2023 includes 61, and ENABLE includes 57. The dictionaries overlap, so those source counts do not add up to the total. A word accepted in one game's dictionary may not be accepted in another.