6-letter words with L as the 1st letter and E as the 2nd letter

The fixed opening narrows the search to two known tiles: L first, E second. Within those 152 matches, everyday choices sit beside specialist vocabulary, and just 27 meet our common-word cutoff. The endings offer a practical filter: S leads, while D and R tie behind it.

6-letter words starting LE at a glance

• 152 entries fit the LE opening across the tournament dictionaries.
• League, letter, leader, and lesson are familiar six-letter examples.
• 39 words end in S, the leading final letter.
• D and R each finish 24 entries.

Which letters end these LE words most often?

S is the clear ending leader: 39 LE words finish with it, compared with 24 ending in D and 24 ending in R. That makes S a productive first ending to test when a puzzle has the opening LE but its final tile is still unknown. N appears 20 times, and E appears 13 times.

The familiar cluster includes league, levels, leaves, learns, leases, and lenses, so a plural or inflected ending can quickly distinguish candidates. Letter, lesson, legend, and legacy offer different middle-letter shapes; use their third and fourth letters to narrow a rack or pattern clue, especially when the final tile is already known.

How to use 6-letter words starting LE in a game

This opening is narrower than several other E-second-letter patterns: R-E has 539 matches, while L-E has 152. If your clue may have the first tile wrong, compare the R-starting group before rejecting a candidate.

Do not assume every game uses the same dictionary. Collins has 149 matches, but ENABLE has 101; check the word list your game follows before committing to an unfamiliar entry. This gap matters most when a candidate is unfamiliar.