6-letter words with E as the 1st letter and M as the 2nd letter

The opening letters narrow the search, but the remaining four positions still produce a varied set: eight entries rank among the top 25,000 English words by frequency. EMPIRE and EMPLOY are easy to recognize; other matches, such as EMBOSK, are less familiar. Dictionary coverage also differs, so a valid tournament entry may not appear in every game.

How many 6-letter words with E first and M second?

• There are 74 matches across the tournament dictionaries counted here.
• EMOJIS leads the scoring list at 15 points; EMBARK and EMBODY each score 14.
• Eight matches are common by English word-frequency ranking.
• Twenty-four matches end in S, the most frequent final letter.
• The opening E-M has 135 seven-letter matches, compared with 34 five-letter matches.

Which endings appear most often?

S is the clear leader: 24 of the 74 words end with it. That makes plurals and verb forms worth checking, including EMAILS, EMBERS, and EMOTES. E comes next with 15 matches, while D appears at the end of seven.

The remaining endings are much less common: five words end in Y, four in L, and three each in H and K. If your final letter is fixed as S, start with recognizable options such as EMAILS or EMBERS before testing rarer forms.

Which E-M words score highest?

EMOJIS is the top scorer at 15 points, ahead of the 14-point group: EMBARK, EMBODY, EMBANK, and EMBOSK. EMPLOY, EMBRYO, and EMPATH each score 13. The unusual J gives EMOJIS its edge, so save it for a board position that can make that letter count.

Coverage varies by word list: the set includes 69 Collins entries, 46 NWL2023 entries, and 39 ENABLE entries, with overlap between dictionaries. These 6-letter words with E first and M second are not all interchangeable across games; check your game's word list when a rare entry matters. EMBOSK is a good example of why raw pattern matches are not a substitute for familiar vocabulary.