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

The fixed pattern is _ _ _ O _ K: the fifth letter can vary, but the fourth and final slots cannot. UNLOCK and REWORK are recognizable entries; most of the 41 are much less common. Just one match falls within the top 25,000 English words by word frequency, so a playable answer is not necessarily an everyday word; many entries are specialist or inflected forms.

Quick facts about this letter pattern

• Exactly 41 matches have O in position four and K in position six.
• UNLOCK, REWORK, RETOOK, UNHOOK, REBOOK, and UNCORK are recognizable examples.
• R begins 10 matches and U begins 9; B and S each begin 5.
• PAJOCK leads the Scrabble scores at 21 points, followed by ZEDONK at 20.

Which candidates should you try first?

Treat the pattern as three unknown slots, then lock O into position four and K into position six: _ _ _ O _ K. UNLOCK, REWORK, RETOOK, UNHOOK, REBOOK, and UNCORK show how much the opening can change while those clue positions stay fixed. The initial-letter counts favor R and U, with 10 and 9 matches, respectively.

Score hunting points elsewhere. PAJOCK leads at 21 Scrabble points, followed by ZEDONK at 20; BYWORK reaches 18, while SHMOCK and YAPOCK each score 17. Those words carry strong tile values, but they are less familiar than UNLOCK. A high score does not make a word an easy guess, so use common candidates when solving and save rare scorers for a board that rewards them.

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

Dictionary coverage is uneven: Collins includes 40 matches, compared with 25 in NWL2023 and 24 in ENABLE. Those totals overlap rather than adding up to 41, and a word accepted by Collins may be absent from an NWL game. The contrast is sharp with the same fourth letter and a different ending: 517 matches end in S, far more than end in K.

Only 1 match counts as common by our frequency cutoff. That rarity is the main limitation for clue-solving: many valid entries will not come readily to mind. Check your game's word list before challenging an obscure candidate or building a play around one.