6-letter words with E as the 3rd letter and G as the 6th letter

Only two entries break the pattern: GEEBAG and TOERAG. The other 31 are present participles with an E before the suffix, from common SEEING, AGEING, EYEING and PEEING to rare JEEING and HYEING, and most are forms of verbs any player can conjugate. Ten are Collins-only.

The -EING list by the numbers

• 33 matches, all ending in G; 31 end in -ING with an E just before it.
• Only GEEBAG and TOERAG fall outside the -ING group.
• Four count as common: AGEING, EYEING, PEEING and SEEING.
• Collins accepts all 33, NWL2023 23 and ENABLE 20.
• JEEING leads at 14, with HYEING on 13 and PYEING on 12.

6-letter words with E as the 3rd letter and G as the 6th letter

The pattern is a spelling rule in action. Verbs ending in a silent E keep that E before -ING: DYE becomes DYEING, HOE becomes HOEING, CUE becomes CUEING and TOE becomes TOEING.

Shorter verbs simply add the suffix: SEEING, PEEING, TEEING, FEEING, WEEING and GEEING. The rare spellings cluster here too, including GIEING, HIEING, PIEING, TYEING, HYEING, PYEING, KAEING and JEEING.

That makes the group a trap for spell-checkers. Several of the rarest forms are Collins-only, among them HYEING, PYEING, TYEING and KAEING, so they look like typos but still score.

Which of these can you actually play?

Dictionary coverage separates the familiar four from the rest. AGEING, EYEING, PEEING and SEEING are the only common entries, and all four appear in Collins, NWL2023 and ENABLE.

JEEING tops the scores at 14 on its J, followed by HYEING at 13 and PYEING at 12. DYEING and KAEING reach 11, and EYEING, HOEING, FEEING, WEEING and TYEING settle on 10.

For 6-letter words with E as the 3rd letter and G as the 6th letter, the 9.1-point average reflects cheap letters rather than weak plays. Ten entries are Collins-only, GEEBAG included, so a North American board cuts the group to 23.