6-letter words with I as the 1st letter and R as the 5th letter

The pattern is I _ _ _ R _, with four open spaces around the fixed letters. Familiar examples include injury, ignore, inform, import, and insert, but only 9 matches count as common by our frequency measure. That makes this a narrow clue with a mix of everyday words and less familiar options.

6-letter words with I as the 1st letter and R as the 5th letter

• 41 tournament-dictionary entries fit the I _ _ _ R _ pattern.
• Collins contains 41 matches; NWL2023 has 33 and ENABLE has 31.
• Only 9 matches are common by the frequency measure.
• Final S leads with 11 words, followed by E with 9 and T with 6.
• IZZARD scores 25 points, ahead of INJURY at 16.

Which endings appear most often?

S is the most frequent final letter, appearing in 11 matches. E follows at 9, then T at 6; N occurs 4 times, K 3 times, D and M twice each, and A once.

When the first and fifth letters are fixed, test S or E in the final slot before trying a rarer ending. The examples show how much that last letter changes the result: injury ends in Y, ignore in E, inform in M, and insert in T.

A common solving mistake is to treat R as the last letter. It is fifth, so one more letter must follow it; that final space rules out otherwise tempting five-letter guesses.

Which matches stand out for score or familiarity?

IZZARD is the scoring leader at 25 points in standard Scrabble tile values. INJURY follows at 16, while IMBARK and IMPARK each score 14. INJURE, INJERA, and INWORK are next at 13 apiece.

IZZARD's two Z tiles contribute 20 of its 25 raw points, so its advantage comes from letter value rather than a word multiplier. That is a different kind of standout from injury, ignore, inform, import, and insert, which are recognizable examples in the set.

The average score is 9.7, far below IZZARD's peak. Collins includes all 41 matches, compared with 33 in NWL2023 and 31 in ENABLE, so an entry accepted in one list may not fit another.

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