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

The pattern is _O___Y, so both clue letters are fixed while the first, third, fourth, and fifth positions stay open. Familiar matches include county, policy, nobody, mostly, lovely, comedy, hockey, and poetry. Of the 213 matches, 43 rank as common by frequency, so many entries are less familiar than the headline count suggests.

The pattern at a glance

• 213 tournament-dictionary words fit the O-second, Y-last pattern.
• County, policy, and hockey are recognizable examples.
• C is the leading first letter, with 27 matches.
• The average score is 13 points.
• Jockey and zonkey each score 22 points.

Which starting letters lead this pattern?

C begins the most matches, with 27, ahead of P with 22 and H with 18. M contributes 17, while B contributes 16. C is a productive first-letter test when your other clues fit, but not every C word is equally familiar: county, comedy, colony, and costly are easy to recognize.

Once the first letter is known, keep the final Y fixed and test the open middle positions. Policy, mostly, and poetry share the pattern but use different letter combinations, while monkey and comply offer other familiar possibilities. The fixed ending narrows the search; changing the middle letters is where you separate candidates.

How do scores and dictionary coverage compare?

Jockey and zonkey top the familiar scoring examples at 22 points each; johnny reaches 19. Those totals stand well above the 13-point average, but a high score does not make an unfamiliar word a safe play. Check your rack and board before choosing a scoring target.

The dictionary counts differ: Collins has 207 matches, NWL2023 has 159, and ENABLE has 142. A word accepted in one list may not appear in another, so check your game's word list before relying on an obscure entry.

Of the 213 matches, 151 have definitions. That leaves a sizeable group without a definition in the site’s word records, even though each counted match appears in at least one tournament dictionary.