6-letter words with I as the 3rd letter and H as the 5th letter

H pays 4 points, so this frame scores well for little effort. WEIGHT, FLIGHT, BRIGHT, HEIGHT and KNIGHT form the everyday core, and QUICHE tops the whole set on 20. Fifteen matches are common, and ten of those fifteen finish in -IGHT.

How the 58 I-and-H matches line up

• 58 matches hold I in slot three and H in slot five.
• Twenty-two end in T, and 19 of those are -IGHT words.
• S opens 13 matches, B adds six, then W and F supply five each, and no other letter reaches five.
• The average score is 12.2, with QUICHE leading the whole set on 20.
• Fifteen matches are common, and ten of them end in -IGHT.

-IGHT carries almost the whole list

Nineteen matches end in -IGHT: ALIGHT, ARIGHT, BLIGHT, BRIGHT, FLIGHT, FRIGHT, HEIGHT, KNIGHT, PLIGHT, SLIGHT, WEIGHT and WRIGHT, plus older spellings such as ANIGHT, KEIGHT, QUIGHT, SMIGHT, SPIGHT, TWIGHT and YPIGHT.

Ten of those nineteen are common words, which explains why a 58-word list feels so familiar. Only three matches end in T without the -IGHT shape, and they are the archaic WHISHT, BRICHT and FRICHT, words that mostly surface in crosswords.

Scores, and the letters that lift them

QUICHE reaches 20 and QUIGHT 19, while BHIKHU climbs to 18 on its K. The familiar options sit lower: KNIGHT and SMITHY both score 14, and WEIGHT and FLIGHT land on 13. SWISHY turns three four-point letters, W, H and Y, into 15.

Collins carries 57 of the 58 matches and misses only REISHI. NWL2023 keeps 41 and ENABLE 37, so 21 matches vanish in the smaller list, a little over a third of the set.

Keeping H alive in the fifth slot