6-letter words with L as the 1st letter and W as the 3rd letter

The fixed pattern is L, any letter, W, then three more letters. LAWYER, LOWEST, and LAWFUL make the search feel familiar, but only four of the 28 matches rank among the most common English words. Final letters also bunch up: S and D lead the endings, while the remaining words spread across six other letters.

At a glance: the L-W pattern

• 28 tournament-dictionary entries match the L-at-first, W-at-third pattern.
• Only four are common by Word Puzzle Answers's frequency cutoff.
• S ends six words and D ends five; together they cover 11.
• LOWBOY leads the score list at 14 points.

Which words fit the pattern?

Start with two visible word families: LAW and LOW. The familiar LAW group includes LAWYER, LAWFUL, LAWMAN, and LAWMEN.

Use the ending as a second filter once L?W is fixed. Six matches end in S, including LOWERS and LAWINS; five end in D, including LAWNED and LOWNED.

Those two endings account for 11 of the 28 choices, so check them before testing less common endings. The full set also has R, T, and Y endings three times each.

6-letter words with L as the 1st letter and W as the 3rd letter

These words are not all equally familiar or accepted across game dictionaries. Collins contains 27 matches, compared with 15 in NWL2023 and 14 in ENABLE; the sets overlap, so do not add those counts as separate words. Only 15 matches have definitions, another reason not to assume every form will be familiar.

LOWBOY tops the score list at 14; LEWDLY follows at 13, while LAWYER, LAWFUL, LOWERY, LOWISH, and LOWPED each score 12. LOWBOY has the biggest listed tile total, but a board premium and your game's dictionary still decide the play. For a nearby pattern, compare the sets with N or G in the third position.