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

Only 14 six-letter words fit H in position two and B in position four. Familiar options include CHUBBY, SHABBY, and PHOBIA, but just three entries rank among the top 25,000 English words by frequency. The rest lean toward specialist vocabulary, so start with recognizable matches before testing less familiar forms.

The pattern at a glance

• Collins includes all 14 matches; NWL2023 includes 11, and ENABLE includes 10.
• CHUBBY leads the scores at 18 points, ahead of CHABUK at 17 and SHABBY at 16.
• Four words start with C; three start with T, while P and S each account for two.
• C, K, S, and Y each appear as the final letter of two matches.
• Only three entries meet the common-word frequency cutoff.

Which matches are easiest to recognize?

CHUBBY and SHABBY are the most familiar choices, and both finish in Y. PHOBIA is another recognizable match; it shares its first four letters with PHOBIC, so the final two slots distinguish the pair.

The 14-word pool is unusually narrow beside nearby patterns: changing the second letter from H to A yields 136 matches, while O yields 116. Keep both fixed letters in place before checking the word endings.

Initial letters cluster as tightly as endings: four matches open with C, three with T, and two each with P and S. C, K, S, and Y each close two words, so a single ending rarely separates candidates on its own.

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

CHUBBY scores 18, the top mark among these matches. CHABUK scores 17 and SHABBY scores 16; PHOBIC, CHEBEC, and RHEBOK each score 15. For a score-first search, those names are a better starting point than the less familiar entries.

The dictionaries do not agree on this set: Collins takes all 14, compared with 11 in NWL2023 and 10 in ENABLE. Outside Collins, three entries drop from NWL2023 and four from ENABLE.