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

The pattern leaves room for several familiar words, but many matches are less common. AROUND, GROUPS, and GROUSE are easy to spot; FROUZY and BROUZE stand out on a score sheet. Most entries come from a small set of opening and ending letters, so those positions can narrow a search quickly.

The pattern at a glance

• There are 49 matches, including AROUND, GROUND, GROUPS, and TROUTY.
• A starts 11 words; G and T each start 9.
• E and S tie as the most common final letters, with 14 words apiece.
• FROUZY scores 21 points, while BROUZE scores 17.

Which letters start and end these words?

A is the leading first letter, with 11 matches. G and T follow at 9 each, while C begins 7. That makes AROUND, ARGUED, and ARGUES a useful cluster when the opening letter is still unknown.

The endings are split evenly between E and S: 14 words finish with each. GROUSE and TROUPE show the E ending; GROUPS and TROUTS show S. Together, those endings account for more than half of the pattern's matches.

Other endings are less frequent: H appears 7 times and Y 6 times. CROUCH and GROUCH are examples ending in H, while TROUTY and GROUTY end in Y. Check the last tile before testing a rarer word.

Which matches score well?

FROUZY leads the scores at 21 points, with BROUZE next at 17. Both are much less familiar than AROUND or GROUND, so a high tile total does not make a word easy to recognize.

CROUCH scores 13, as do CROUPY and ARGUFY. For a more ordinary-looking rack, compare those options with GROUCH at 12. The average score across the matches is 9.2.

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