6-letter words with E as the 2nd letter and O as the 3rd letter

The pattern is _EO___, so the first and last three letters remain open. Yet only two matches count as common by word frequency, making familiar entries such as people stand out. The group is also uneven by word ending: eight finish in S and five end in N, which gives you a better starting point than guessing a random word.

The E-O pattern at a glance

• 23 tournament-dictionary words match E in position two and O in position three.
• Collins accepts 20; NWL2023 accepts 22; ENABLE accepts 18.
• Eight end in S, the largest final-letter group; five end in N.
• G is the most frequent first letter, with four matches.
• Feoffs scores 15 points, ahead of meowed at 12.

How many six-letter words match the E-O pattern?

Twenty of the 23 matches have definitions available. Dictionary coverage splits across Collins (20), NWL2023 (22), and ENABLE (18).

The overlap is substantial but not complete, so an entry accepted in one game may fail in another. Check your game's word list before building a play around an unfamiliar match.

The word openings are spread across eight letters: G leads with four entries, N and R each supply three, and F, M, P, and Y contribute two apiece. A appears once. That spread means the pattern does not point to one obvious starting letter, even though the middle pair narrows it sharply.

Which 6-letter words with E second and O third score most?

Final letters offer a cleaner shortcut: S closes eight matches and N closes five; C and D end three each. Start with an S-ending candidate when the last square is open, then test the other letters against crossing clues. People, geodes, and reopen show the range of first letters without changing the fixed EO.

Geodes, meowed, and geotag fit the same pattern but finish with S, D, and G. That contrast is a reminder to preserve every known crossing letter rather than treating EO as the whole answer.

Among 6-letter words with E second and O third, feoffs tops the score list at 15 points; meowed follows at 12, and yeoman and yeomen each score 11. People reaches 10. Only two matches count as common by word-frequency rank, so a high tile score is no guarantee that opponents will recognize a word.