6-letter words with N as the 2nd letter and E as the 5th letter

The fixed pattern is _N__E_: N sits in position two, E in position five, and four letters remain open. UNITED, ANSWER, INDEED, and INCHES are recognizable matches. The 143-word set is small beside several neighboring patterns, so a known starting letter narrows your search quickly, since only 19 entries rank among the most common English words.

6-letter words with N second and E fifth at a glance

• There are 143 tournament-dictionary matches for the pattern _N__E_.
• UNITED is one of 40 words beginning with U, the most common starting letter here.
• Words ending in S lead with 50 matches, followed by 44 ending in D.
• INKJET tops the Scrabble scores at 17 points; ONYXES follows at 16.

Which letters start and end these words?

U leads with 40 words, while I begins 25, A begins 22, and S begins 21. That concentration makes U a strong first check when you already know the two fixed positions. Examples include UNITED, UNUSED, UNSEEN, and UNEVEN.

The endings cluster even more sharply: S appears 50 times and D 44 times, while R closes 21 words. Familiar examples show the split: INCHES ends in S, INDEED ends in D, and ANSWER ends in R. Just 19 matches are common by our frequency measure, so many valid entries are less familiar.

The same fixed pair appears in 44 five-letter words and 118 seven-letter words.

What scores well among 6-letter words with N second and E fifth?

INKJET scores 17 points in standard Scrabble letter values, ahead of ONYXES at 16 and ENTREZ at 15. KNIFED, KNIVED, and UNAXED each score 14. The unusual J and X tiles drive the leaders; a short word is not automatically a low scorer.