6-letter words with R as the 2nd letter and I as the 4th letter

The pattern is _R_I__, so the second slot must be R and the fourth must be I. Among the matches are everyday words like artist, trains, and praise, alongside less familiar options such as wraith and bruins. The A-second, I-fourth pattern is much larger, with 510 matches, so this R pattern narrows the search sharply.

At a glance: which words fit _R_I__?

• Exactly 133 six-letter words match the R-second, I-fourth pattern.
• Artist, trying, crying, and arrive are recognizable examples.
• The most frequent final letter is S, shared by 47 matches.
• Only 22 matches fall within the common-word group.
• BRAIZE scores 17 points, the highest score among the examples ranked here.

Which letters finish these R-and-I words?

S is the clear leader: 47 words end in that letter, including trains, brains, fruits, and traits. E comes next with 28, represented by arrive, cruise, and bruise. These endings make a good first split when several letters are still unknown.

G closes 21 matches, including trying, crying, and drying. That shared ending is a strong clue, but the first letter separates the words: trying begins with T, crying with C, and drying with D.

6-letter words with R as 2nd and I as 4th letter: scoring notes

BRAIZE leads at 17 points, while frying, dryish, and wrying each score 13. The familiar crying and fruity score 12 apiece. For a word game, check the entry against your game's dictionary before relying on a less familiar scorer.

The 133 matches span different tournament dictionaries, and only 22 are classed as common. That means an exact pattern can still produce obscure answers; artist, praise, and trails are easier starting points than specialist vocabulary. The list also contains no Wordle answers, so it is for letter-pattern solving rather than answer-history checks.