6-letter words with N as the 2nd letter and E as the 4th letter

The pattern is tighter than its familiar examples suggest: only 21 matches count as common, while most are less familiar. U leads the starting letters with 61 words, followed by I with 39. Check the fixed positions first, then use the examples and ending-letter counts to narrow your remaining tiles.

The N–E pattern at a glance

• There are 131 six-letter matches with N second and E fourth.
• UNLESS, INDEED, INVEST, and INTENT are familiar examples.
• U starts 61 matches; I starts 39.
• T and S are the most frequent endings, with 33 and 31 words respectively.

How many 6-letter words have N second and E fourth?

There are 131 matches in the tournament-dictionary count. The strongest same-length alternative among the second-letter patterns shown is A, with 328 matches; N is a narrower search.

The fourth-letter choice matters too: keeping N in second place but changing E to O gives 136 matches. A fixed pattern is a useful filter, but it does not guarantee that every remaining word will be familiar or accepted in every game.

Dictionary coverage is uneven: Collins holds 128 of the 131 matches, NWL2023 holds 89, and ENABLE holds 82, so the totals overlap rather than stack. Definitions cover 99 of the matches, and the average Scrabble score across the set is 8.5 points.

Which matches are familiar or score well?

UNLESS, INDEED, INVEST, INTENT, and INSERT are readable starting points. The list also includes less everyday options such as INJERA and UNVEXT, so recognition alone is a poor test of whether a play is legal.

For 6-letter words with N as the 2nd letter and E as the 4th letter, SNEEZY is the top scorer at 18 points; UNSEXY and UNVEXT each score 16. These are tile-value totals before board bonuses, so a premium square can change the result.