6-letter words with R as the 1st letter and T as the 5th letter

The pattern is R _ _ _ T _, so the fifth position is fixed while the other four letters vary. RIGHTS and REMOTE show how different the resulting words can look. Of the 60 matches, 11 rank among common English words; many other entries are less familiar, so the examples and ending-letter groups can narrow your search.

At a glance: counts, examples, and scores

• There are 60 six-letter matches with R first and T fifth across the tournament dictionaries.
• RIGHTS, REMOTE, RELATE, ROBOTS, and ROTATE are recognizable examples of the pattern.
• ROZETS and ROZITS top the Scrabble score list at 15 points each.
• S is the most frequent final letter, appearing in 31 matches.
• The average score across this pattern is 8.1 points.

Which letters finish these R-and-T words?

S is the clear leader at the final position: RIGHTS, ROBOTS, ROASTS, and RESETS all finish with S. The next most common ending is E, with 15 words; REMOTE, REBATE, and REFUTE make that group easy to recognize. The letters after the fixed T help sort the matches into distinct word families.

The remaining endings are much thinner: Y appears in six matches, O in five, A in two, and I in one. When the last tile is unknown, test S or E before spending a turn on a rarer ending. That quick check covers the two largest groups without needing to scan every example.

6-letter words with R first and T fifth: what to watch

The scoring standouts are not necessarily the words most players will know. ROZETS and ROZITS score 15, while RIGHTY scores 13; the familiar RIGHTS scores 10. A high total comes from the letters and their values, not from a word being common, so check an unfamiliar play in your game's dictionary.

Dictionary coverage differs across the major lists: 59 matches appear in Collins, 46 in NWL2023, and 42 in ENABLE. The 60-word total combines entries found in at least one of those tournament dictionaries, so no single game is guaranteed to accept every match. Only 11 entries are common by frequency, another reason to verify an unusual word before playing it.