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

Locking L into the third slot and Y at the end leaves 74 six-letter entries across the supported tournament lists. The familiar cluster includes policy, valley, salary, galaxy, and melody, while B is the most frequent starting letter. That mix gives you everyday options and less familiar plays, and the fixed letters make the pattern easy to scan against crossing tiles.

At a glance: the L-third, Y-last pattern

• The fixed pattern has 74 matches: the third letter is L, and the final letter is Y.
• B starts 9 matches; C, M, and P each start 8.
• Collins lists 71 matches, compared with 54 in NWL2023 and 50 in ENABLE.
• Sixteen entries fall among the top 25,000 English words by word frequency.
• Policy, valley, salary, galaxy, and melody are recognizable examples.

Which words score highest?

JALOPY and TOLZEY lead the score list at 18 points apiece, with GALAXY next at 17. FOLKSY and JOLLEY each score 16, putting several less-common spellings among the strongest plays in this pattern.

For a more familiar choice, consider POLICY, VALLEY, or SALARY. The scoring leaders are not the obvious everyday picks, so keep the full pattern in mind when you have a high-value letter to place. A familiar word is not automatically the top-scoring one.

The first-letter counts also give you a quick tie-breaker when several crossings remain open.

6-letter words with L as 3rd and Y as 6th letter

This is a relatively narrow Y-ending pattern: the A-third, Y-sixth group has 200 matches, and the E-third group has 172. L third yields 74, despite familiar options such as COLONY, CELERY, and VOLLEY.

The combined count includes words from more than one tournament dictionary, not words accepted by every game. Collins has 71 matches, while NWL2023 has 54 and ENABLE has 50. Check your game's word list before playing an unfamiliar entry such as TOLZEY.