6-letter words with L as the 3rd letter and R as the 6th letter

The pattern is _ _ L _ _ R: L is fixed in the third slot, and every match ends in R. Familiar choices include DOLLAR, KILLER, FILTER, and FOLDER, but the list also contains less everyday entries. Of the 159 matches, 30 are common English words, so the pattern gives you some recognizable options without making every answer obvious.

The L-R pattern at a glance

• 159 tournament-dictionary words put L third and R sixth.
• 30 matches fall within the top 25,000 English words by frequency.
• P leads the starting letters with 17 words; B follows with 15.
• VALKYR tops the score list at 16 points, ahead of WALKER at 13.

Which words fit the _ _ L _ _ R pattern?

SILVER, DOLLAR, MILLER, and COLOUR are easy matches to recognize, while WALKER, HOLDER, and SELLER offer other familiar endings. The shared R is not a suffix clue by itself: these words include people, objects, and descriptive terms, so use known letters in the middle slots to narrow the choice.

Starting letters vary more than the fixed ending suggests. P appears most often, with 17 matches; B has 15, while C, F, and S each have 13. If your first letter is still unknown, testing P or B against the crossing letters gives you more candidates than starting with a less frequent initial.

Scores for L-third, R-last words

VALKYR leads the scores at 16 points. WALKER, JILTER, and JOLTER each score 13, making WALKER the more familiar high-value option among those three. The average score across the matches is 8.8, so the top entry is an outlier rather than a typical result.

A practical limitation: 131 of the 159 entries have definitions, leaving 28 without one. For a playable word, confirm that your game accepts it; the highest score does not guarantee the most familiar vocabulary. This pattern rewards checking your rack and crossings before committing to an obscure-looking candidate.