6-letter words with O as the 4th letter and I as the 6th letter

Every word here ends in I, which puts you in Latin and Italian territory. Plurals like octopi sit beside borrowings like satori and tifosi. Few are common English, so this page serves crossword solvers and Scrabble players far more than casual guessers.

Facts on the O-and-I frame

• 21 words fit, all of them ending in I by definition.
• C, P and T each start three words, with E and S next at two.
• ZUFOLI scores 18, the page high; JUDOGI follows at 15.
• Five words close with -OLI: EMBOLI, NEROLI, CAROLI, TUFOLI and ZUFOLI.
• The average word here scores 9.6 points, and two entries, dhooti and krooni, carry a double O and rarely appear outside word lists.

Which of these words are plurals?

Three are plain Latin or Italian plurals: OCTOPI (octopus), EMBOLI (embolus) and TIFOSI (tifoso, a sports fan). Each looks wrong to a player who expects an S, yet all three are legal; players miss them on a crowded rack for that reason.

The rest are singular loans. SATORI is Zen enlightenment, NEROLI an orange-blossom oil, JUDOGI the jacket worn in judo, and PIROGI a filled dumpling.

Can you play them in every game?

Not all of them. Collins accepts 20 of the 21, NWL2023 accepts 17 and ENABLE accepts 15, so six of the 21 are missing from ENABLE. That is more than a quarter of the page, so the list you play on really matters.

The safest play is a well-known entry such as OCTOPI or SATORI. Treat anything with a double O, like DHOOTI or KROONI, as a Collins gamble and check your game's word list first, because a bounced play costs the whole turn.

Where the fixed letters help