6-letter words with I as the 2nd letter and G as the 5th letter

Twelve of the 18 matches finish on E, and ten of those are -AGE nouns: MIRAGE, VISAGE, SILAGE, MILAGE, RIVAGE, LINAGE, TIRAGE, HIDAGE, HIRAGE and PIPAGE. The opening letter spreads unusually wide, with 12 different letters starting one or two words each. MIRAGE is the only match in the common tier, so specialist vocabulary sits beside it.

Eighteen words, ten of them -AGE

• 18 six-letter matches put I in the second slot and G in the fifth.
• 10 of them end in -AGE, as MIRAGE, VISAGE and SILAGE do.
• 12 matches finish on E, leaving 6 with other endings.
• 9 matches score 10 points or more, led by KIAUGH on 14.
• MIRAGE is the only common match, and 14 of the 18 have a definition.

6-letter words with I as the 2nd letter and G as the 5th letter

With G pinned to the fifth slot, L in second place returns 54 matches and R returns 52, both far ahead of the 18 that carry I. U also lands on 18, while T gives 16. The second letter is doing almost all of the filtering here.

The fifth slot belongs to E, which appears in 805 six-letter matches across the language. Much of that total comes from -AGE, one of the busiest noun endings in English, and this pattern sits right on top of it.

Which endings does the G sit inside?

G almost never stands alone in these words. The -AGE group accounts for 10 matches, and the remaining eight divide neatly: CIERGE and DIRIGE end in -RGE, GINKGO and VIRAGO close on -GO, KIANGS and LIANGS close on -NGS, PIROGI ends in -GI and KIAUGH in -UGH.

That is the entire set. Nine of the 18 matches score 10 points or better, which is unusual for a list this size, and the reason is the G itself, worth two points on top of whatever the rest of the word brings.

KIAUGH and the high end