6-letter words with R as the 2nd letter and T as the 3rd letter

This narrow pattern is unusually easy to scan: ARTIST, ARTERY and ARTFUL supply familiar A-openers, while URTEXT is the scoring leader. Ten of the 13 candidates start with A. Their endings spread across eight letters, so the shared opening does not settle the final slot.

At a glance the ART cluster

• 13 words match the two fixed slots.
• A starts 10; U starts two and O starts one.
• S is the most frequent ending, with four.
• URTEXT is the sole scorer above 9.

How should you narrow thirteen options?

Eight endings in a small pool

ARTIST, ARTERY and ARTFUL show how strongly the pattern gathers around ART at the start. That common shape is not the entire list: URTEXT begins with U, and ORTHOS begins with O. If the first square is known, those three openings reduce the search quickly.

ARTERY and ARTIER share most of their letters but differ at the end, while ARTIST and ARTIES give another close pair. Those near-neighbors make position checking worthwhile: matching the ART opening still leaves several legal-looking continuations to separate.

With just 13 candidates, a complete mental scan is realistic once the ART opening is established. ARTIST and ARTERY are familiar, but ARTI… can also continue into ARTIES or ARTIER. The uncommon URTEXT and ORTHOS matter when crossings reject the dominant A-start group.

ARTIES and ARTILY are less familiar than ARTIST, but both preserve the same opening. Compare the final two letters against crossings instead of assuming that every ART word names a common noun.

URTEXT carries the highest score

The endings are scattered: S appears four times, T and Y twice each, and five other endings appear once apiece. URTEXT scores 13, while ARTERY, ARTFUL, ORTHOS and ARTILY each score 9. With only two common-frequency entries, this is a small, specialist pool; check your game’s word list for less familiar forms.