6-letter words starting with A

You can play 1,187 six-letter words starting with A in Collins, and nine in ten of them put a consonant second.

1,213 wordsTop pick AROUNDHighest score AVYZED 22

177 of 1,213 are everyday words (15%). A mix of familiar words and game-only finds.

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S starts the most 6-letter words (2,737); X starts the fewest (19). A ranks #8 of 26. The bar under each letter shows the size of its list.

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Common words 177 · most-used first

Showing the top 48 of 177 common words. See every valid word

All valid words 1,213

A to Z. Includes rare and Collins-only words. Linked tiles open the word's meaning, score and rhymes.

AAHING₁₀
AALIIS₆
AARRGH₁₀
AARTIS₆
ABACAS₁₀
ABACUS₁₀
ABAKAS₁₂
ABAMPS₁₂
ABANDS₉
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ABLAZE₁₇
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ABLOOM₁₀
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ABMHOS₁₃
ABOARD₉
ABODED₁₀
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ABOHMS₁₃
ABOLLA₈
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ABORAL₈
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Letters by positionIn 31% of these words the 6th letter is S.

2nd letter

R12%
L11%
N9%

3rd letter

O10%
A10%
I9%

4th letter

I15%
E12%
A11%

5th letter

E18%
N11%
A10%

6th letter

S31%
E13%
T8%

Highest-scoring words

Scrabble and Words With Friends points, before board bonuses

Score spreadMost of these words score 8 in Scrabble; AVYZED tops the list with 22. Scores before board bonuses.

66 points: 160 words
7 points: 139 words
88 points: 240 words
9 points: 197 words
1010 points: 180 words
11 points: 87 words
1212 points: 55 words
13 points: 51 words
1414 points: 29 words
15 points: 37 words
1616 points: 12 words
17 points: 11 words
1818 points: 4 words
19 points: 6 words
2020 points: 3 words
21 points: 1 words
2222 points: 1 words

Word	Scrabble	Words With Friends	Dictionaries
AVYZED	22	22	Collins only
AVYZES	21	21	Collins only
ALKOXY	20	20	All three
ADZUKI	20	21	All three
AZYMES	20	20	Collins only
AZYGOS	19	19	All three
AFFLUX	19	21	All three
AGRYZE	19	19	Collins only
APOZEM	19	21	Collins only
AVIZED	19	20	Collins only
AZUKIS	19	20	Collins · NWL
AMAZED	18	19	All three

An A up front buys you a vowel before you guess, but it rarely pays much else. A consonant fills the second square in 1,083 of the 1,187 words, and the average Scrabble value is just 9.4 points, the lowest of the five letters on this list.

The second letter decides an A word

Only 104 of the 1,187 words put a vowel straight after the A, and just four repeat the A itself. R comes next most often, in 145 words, including AROUND, ARTIST and arrive.

L follows in 135, as in ALWAYS, ALMOST and alpaca, and N in 109, as in ANNUAL, animal and answer. Those three letters cover 389 entries, so the plain A plus consonant shape controls the list.

U is the best of the leftover vowel options at 41 words, with AUDIO, AUTHOR and august. Beyond that, S comes next with 87 words, and M and B each clear 82.

How six-letter A words end

S ends 372 words, mostly plurals such as AWARDS, agents and allows.
E ends 154, as in ADVICE, and T ends 92, as in ARTIST and accept.
D ends 80 words like AROUND, while R and N close 59 each.
A itself ends 71 words, almost all loanwords: AGENDA, ALPACA, angora and alumna.
Y ends 52 words, fewer than you might expect from a vowel-heavy group.

Why the A group scores lower than its neighbours

A sits last among these five letters for average Scrabble value at 9.4 points, behind S at 9.8, D at 10.0, B at 11.0 and C at 11.1. Heavy tiles are simply rare here.

Only five words reach 20 points. AVYZED leads at 22 but is Collins-only, as is avyzes at 21, while ADZUKI and ALKOXY both hit 20 and are accepted in NWL and ENABLE too.

The most practical high scorer is AFFLUX at 19, since a single X carries it and every main dictionary accepts it. Just 38 A words contain a Z and 32 contain an X.

Repeats are the norm in longer A words

Only 479 of the 1,187 entries use six different letters, which means 708 repeat one somewhere. ACCESS doubles its C, while ALWAYS and allows double an L.

Adjacent doubles appear in 200 words, and 527 of the group share their letters with another six-letter entry. In an anagram game that is a useful safety net.

Which word list counts each A word

Tip

All 1,187 entries are Collins words, but NWL accepts only 854 and ENABLE 828, leaving 333 that club players elsewhere cannot use. Only two A words hold a Q, against 34 for S.

Questions people ask

How many six-letter words begin with A?

Collins holds 1,187. NWL accepts 854 of them and ENABLE accepts 828, so 333 are Collins-only. Just 148 are common words you would meet in ordinary writing.

Which letter usually follows A in a six-letter word?

A consonant, in 1,083 of the 1,187 words. R comes second in 145, L in 135 and N in 109, and only 104 words put any vowel in the second square at all.

What is the best-scoring six-letter word starting with A?

Avyzed leads at 22 points, but only Collins accepts it. Avyzes follows at 21 and is also Collins-only, while adzuki and alkoxy reach 20 and are valid in NWL and ENABLE as well.

How many six-letter A words end in A?

Seventy-one do, and most are borrowings such as agenda, alpaca, angora and alumna. S is a far more common ending, closing 372 of the 1,187 words.

Do any six-letter A words use a Q?

Only two do, the smallest Q count of any common starting letter here. S manages 34, so a rack with a bare Q is usually better spent on a different first letter.

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