6-letter words with E as the 1st letter and M as the 3rd letter

Thirteen matches place E first and M third, and none of them belongs to the 25,000 most common English words. Five entries double the M, from EMMERS and EMMETS to EMMESH, and another four open with EN. Familiarity is the missing ingredient here: eight entries have definitions and five have none.

Thirteen matches, and none of them common

• All 13 put E first and M third; five double the M, as EMMERS, EMMETS and EMMESH do.
• Not one of the 13 sits among the 25,000 most common English words.
• Only six appear in NWL2023 and six in ENABLE; the other seven are Collins-only.
• EMMESH, EMMEWS and EMMOVE share the top score at 13 points.
• Eight of the 13 have a dictionary definition, leaving five that exist only as plays.

Why does the M sit inside doubled letters?

Five matches put M in both the second and third slots: EMMERS, EMMETS, EMMESH, EMMEWS and EMMOVE. Another four open with EN, namely ENMESH, ENMITY, ENMEWS and ENMOVE, and ELMIER, ERMINE, EUMONG and EUMUNG fill the remaining four slots.

Definition coverage is thin, with eight of the 13 defined and five left out. Frequency tells the same story, since nothing here reaches the common-word group, so none of these forms turns up in ordinary reading.

Seven entries are Collins-only: EMMESH, EMMEWS, EMMOVE, ENMEWS, ENMOVE, EUMONG and EUMUNG. Both NWL2023 and ENABLE stop at six, so more than half the list disappears from those games. Check your game's word list before you commit to an M-heavy guess.

Which of the 13 scores best?

EMMESH, EMMEWS and EMMOVE tie at 13 points, and ENMITY, ENMESH, ENMEWS and ENMOVE follow on 11. The average sits at 10.5 points.

ENMITY is the one most players will recognise, and it reaches 11 without a doubled letter. EMMETS and EMMERS hold the middle of the range on 10, while ELMIER and ERMINE finish at 8, the lowest scores here.