6-letter words with L as the 2nd letter and V as the 4th letter

This pattern leaves you with a compact set, but several entries are familiar: eleven, gloves, olives, and sliver all fit. The opening letters cluster around C and S, while the endings favor S, R, and N. Only 9 matches rank among common English words, so expect some less familiar game entries alongside everyday vocabulary.

The L-and-V pattern at a glance

• There are 36 tournament-dictionary matches for this six-letter pattern.
• C starts 13 matches, ahead of S with 9; clever, clover, and cloves show the C group.
• S is the most frequent ending, with 12 words; R follows with 9.
• ENABLE includes 26 matches, Collins 35, and NWL2023 27.
• Flavor, flavin, slavey, and flavas top the word-score ranking at 12 points.

Which starting and ending letters dominate?

C and S together start 22 of the 36 words. That gives you a practical first split when checking a clue: try C for clever, clover, or cloven, then S for slaver, sliver, or slaves. Check both fixed positions first.

The final letter narrows the set further. S, R, and N account for 28 matches combined, represented by gloves, clever, and eleven. Just one word ends in E, and one ends in T, so those endings are much thinner routes.

How should you use the less familiar matches?

Thirty-one matches have definitions, while only 9 fall within the common-word group. Start with recognizable choices such as flavor, gloves, clover, and olives; then treat words like flavin or clavis as candidates to verify rather than assuming every pattern match is familiar.

The pattern is narrower than its neighboring second-letter E pattern, which has 77 six-letter matches. For scoring, flavor reaches 12 points, while clever and clover score 11. Check your game's word list before playing a rare entry: Collins includes more matches here than either ENABLE or NWL2023.