6-letter words with O as the 2nd letter and V as the 3rd letter

The fixed OV pair appears in 52 six-letter entries, but the group is less ordinary than its size suggests. Just 13 are common by the top-25,000 wordfreq measure; familiar picks include MOVING, MOVIES, LOVELY, COVERS, and NOVELS. Endings cluster sharply too: 22 entries finish in S, while only 8 finish in E.

6-letter words with O as the 2nd letter and V as the 3rd letter

• The pattern matches 52 six-letter entries across tournament dictionaries.
• S is the most common final letter, appearing in 22 words.
• C leads the starting letters with 12 matches; L has 7 and N has 6.
• Only 13 entries are common by the top-25,000 wordfreq measure.
• JOVIAL scores 16; BOVVER, COVEYS, COVARY, and COVYNE each score 14.

Which endings are most common in the O-V words?

Among the 52 six-letter matches, S closes 22, far ahead of every other ending. MOVIES, COVERS, LOVERS, and ROVERS illustrate the cluster; E appears on 8 words and G on 6. With the last tile unknown, S is the strongest first test, though the other words do not all share one ending.

The opening letter tells a different story. C heads 12 entries, compared with 7 for L and 6 for N; COVERT, COVENS, COVETS, and COVERS give that group several recognizable forms. By comparison, the six-letter O-R pattern has 370 matches, so the V in position three cuts the search space sharply.

Which O-V words score well, and where do lists differ?

JOVIAL scores 16, ahead of BOVVER, COVEYS, COVARY, and COVYNE at 14 points each. DOVISH and HOVING score 13, while MOVING, LOVELY, and HOVERS each score 12. The top score belongs to a less common entry, so check JOVIAL when a J is available rather than relying only on familiar words.

For 6-letter words with O as the 2nd letter and V as the 3rd letter, dictionary choice changes which entries count. Collins has 47 matches, NWL2023 has 42, and ENABLE has 34. Forty entries have definitions; the remaining entries lack one here, and some words are obscure.