6-letter words with E as the 2nd letter and F as the 4th letter

This pattern fixes two letters and leaves the first, third, fifth, and final positions open. The 37 matches range from familiar words such as SELFIE and HEIFER to rarer forms including REFFOS and KEFFEL. Only one match meets the common-word frequency cutoff, so expect a narrow pattern list with plenty of specialist vocabulary.

The pattern at a glance

• There are 37 matches with E second and F fourth.
• The most frequent first letter is D, which begins 8 matches.
• D is also the most frequent final letter, ending 9 matches.
• JEFFED leads the scoring examples at 20 points; SEXFID scores 17.
• The matches include 19 ENABLE entries, 35 Collins entries, and 23 NWL2023 entries.

Which matches stand out for word games?

JEFFED scores 20, ahead of SEXFID at 17; DEFFLY and KEFFEL each score 16. Those unusual spellings make this pattern more interesting for tile scoring than for everyday conversation. The average score is 12, but a high base score does not guarantee a premium-square play.

Dictionary coverage differs: ENABLE includes 19 matches, Collins includes 35, and NWL2023 includes 23. The counts overlap, and the 37-word total includes entries found in at least one tournament dictionary. Check your game's word list before playing an unfamiliar option such as FEOFFS.

How do the first and last letters narrow the list?

D starts 8 matches, while P and R each start 5. At the other end, D appears 9 times, R 7 times, and S and Y 5 times apiece. These skews give you a quick way to prune candidates when a rack or puzzle already fixes an outside letter.

The pattern is much rarer than several close alternatives: E in the second position with I fourth has 383 matches, and E with E fourth has 290. For the same E-and-F pattern, the five-letter version has 27 matches and the seven-letter version has 85.