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

With E second and H fourth, the two middle slots usually act as one sound. Method, lethal, tether and nether form TH; techno, lecher and teched form CH; meshes and reshot form SH, and zephyr and tephra form PH. Only 6 entries are common words, so the list stays specialist.

The E_H digraph at a glance

• All 59 matches hold E in the second slot and H in the fourth.
• 48 matches put T, C, S or P third, turning the middle into a TH, CH, SH or PH digraph.
• R opens 8 matches, L and P 7 each, and R and S each close 12.
• Just 6 entries count as common words.
• Zephyr tops the list at 23, then zechin on 20 and yeehaw and heehaw on 15.

Which E_H words use a TH, CH, SH or PH digraph?

TH is the biggest: method, lethal, methyl, bethel, tether, nether, wether and aether all place T in the third slot.

CH follows, with techno, techie, lecher, teched and leches, plus zechin and lechwe. SH appears in meshes, meshed and reshot, and PH in zephyr, tephra and nephew.

Those four digraphs cover 48 of the 59 matches, so position three is nearly always the same family.

Where the E_H scores and gaps come from

Zephyr is the runaway leader at 23 points, pairing Z with the PH pair. Zechin follows on 20, and yeehaw, heehaw and kephir reach 15.

The average is 11.8, kept up by the rare tiles rather than the digraph itself, since C, S and T are ordinary 1-point letters.

Collins keeps 57 of the 59 matches, but NWL2023 has 40 and ENABLE only 35, the widest coverage gap in the group.