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

The pattern fixes the final two letters as OR, leaving the opening four letters to do the sorting. Familiar choices such as labour, colour, honour, and favour sit alongside less everyday entries. The list also has a clear scoring outlier: huzoor, whose Z makes it stand apart from the more familiar spellings.

The pattern at a glance

• Exactly 43 words meet both letter positions; every entry ends in R.
• Collins includes 42, compared with 36 in ENABLE and 38 in NWL2023.
• Thirteen entries fall within the common-frequency band.
• Huzoor leads the score list at 18; bezoar follows at 17.
• Labour, colour, honour, and favour are among the familiar examples.

Why are so many answers familiar spellings?

A strong cluster comes from the -our spelling family: labour, colour, honour, humour, rumour, vapour, valour, vigour, savour, and rigour. Each places O in the fourth slot and R at the end, so the spelling pattern narrows the search quickly without fixing the first three letters.

Other recognizable words take a different route to the same ending. Indoor, detour, devour, and uproar fit too, while the starting letters D, U, and V tie as the most frequent openings, with five words apiece. That mix makes the first three slots more varied than the shared ending suggests.

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

For Scrabble, huzoor is the standout at 18 points, with bezoar next at 17. Those scores reward the Z, not the common -our ending; favour scores 12, while humour and vapour score 11 each. The group’s average score is 8.9, so the top two are clear exceptions rather than typical plays.

The pattern is selective: changing the fourth letter to T while keeping final R produces 298 matches, and changing the final letter to S with O still fourth produces 517. Here, only 43 entries satisfy both positions. Dictionary coverage also differs by game: Collins has the broadest count, so check your game’s word list before playing unfamiliar options such as huzoor or bezoar.