6-letter words with S as the 3rd letter and S as the 4th letter

Two consecutive S tiles create a much larger pool than most fixed pairs here: 199 tournament entries, with 25 common words. PASSED, MISSED, LESSON, LOSSES, PASSES, TISSUE, and VESSEL show how many familiar forms use the doubled center. This final letter is especially informative: 69 entries finish in S.

The double-S count and score leaders

• 199 words contain SS in positions three and four.
• 69 end in S; 31 end in D and 27 in R.
• M opens 25 words, the largest starting-letter group in the set.

Which endings make the double-S pattern easier?

A word-final S appears 69 times; D closes 31 entries, and R closes 27. LOSSES and PASSES are easy to spot, though the shared pair does not make every entry plural. PASSED, MISSED, and LESSER show distinct endings and uses within the same frame.

M leads the initial counts with 25 words, followed by T at 21 and P at 20. Familiar choices include MISSED, TISSUE, PASSES, and PASSED, while LESSON and VESSEL provide different openings. When the middle pair is already known, combining the first letter with the ending is a quick way to avoid scanning all 199 possibilities.

Are the top scores familiar words?

HYSSOP and JASSID follow at 14 each. These are specialist vocabulary compared with everyday anchors like LESSON or TISSUE, so the score ranking is more useful for board review than for an unprompted guess.

2 points, and 163 words have recorded definitions. Only 25 meet the common-word cutoff, despite the many recognizable examples at the top.

That combination makes this a broad pattern: use familiar words to solve clues, then consult the game list for less usual spellings and forms. Match those fixed slots against the rack before spending a turn on a weak guess.