6-letter words with O as the 2nd letter and S as the 5th letter

That pattern leaves the first, third, fourth, and final letters open, but the final letter is rarely S. Only 9 matches rank among common English words; familiar choices include course, honest, forest, lowest, and robust. The pattern also has a lopsided start: M leads the first-letter counts, ahead of C. Use these examples to narrow a clue, then check the spelling against your game’s dictionary.

The pattern at a glance

• There are 86 tournament-dictionary matches with O second and S fifth.
• M starts 15 matches, while C starts 12; those are the leading first letters.
• Only 3 matches end in S, although every word already has S in position five.
• T, E, and H are the most frequent final letters, with 23, 22, and 19 words.
• Course, honest, forest, and modest are familiar examples.

How do these six-letter positions narrow the choices?

Only 3 of the 86 matches actually end in S; most put another letter after the required S. T is the leading ending with 23 words, followed by E with 22 and H with 19. So a final T, E, or H is a stronger next guess than assuming the word closes on S.

The opening letter is also uneven. M begins 15 matches and C begins 12, while P follows with 7. If your clue leaves the first letter unknown, checking M and C first covers more candidates than starting with a less frequent initial.

Examples show how varied the remaining slots are: course and coarse share a start, while forest and robust have different openings. Polish and locust also fit, but their final letters send you down different branches of the pattern.

Which matches are common or score well?

Nine matches fall within the common-word group, so the full set is much broader than everyday vocabulary. Course, honest, forest, and modest are recognizable starting points; entries such as bourse and cohost are less likely to come to mind during a quick solve.

For Scrabble, cocksy leads the scoring list at 17 points, with folksy at 16 and jocose at 15. Those figures are tile scores before board premiums. This pattern is not a Wordle answer set: it has no matching answers or allowed guesses recorded.

For 6-letter words with O as the 2nd letter and S as the 5th letter, dictionary coverage matters more than the pattern alone. Collins includes 84 matches, NWL2023 includes 64, and ENABLE includes 60; those counts overlap, so they are not separate groups. Check your game’s word list before playing an unfamiliar entry.