6-letter words with T as the 1st letter and S as the 5th letter

The fixed letters leave 4 positions open, but the tournament-dictionary list is still short: only 38 words qualify. That is fewer than the 66 words beginning with S that put S in the same fifth position. Most matches are uncommon, so familiar choices such as THRUST, THIRST, and THRASH stand out from the rarer entries.

The pattern at a glance

• There are 38 qualifying six-letter words with T first and S fifth.
• Only 3 entries meet the common-word cutoff.
• THRUST, THIRST, and THRASH are recognizable examples.
• The final letter is T most often, with 12 matches.

Which letters finish these words?

T is the final letter in 12 matches, ahead of E with 8 and H with 6. Those three endings account for 26 of the 38 words, leaving a smaller tail of words ending in I, M, Y, K, or O.

The fifth-position S does not mean the word ends in S: none of these entries does, because the sixth letter varies. Compare the 38 matches here with 415 six-letter words that start with T and have E in fifth place; changing one fixed letter opens a much larger set.

6-letter words with T as the 1st letter and S as the 5th letter

For a high tile-score candidate, TYKISH leads at 16, followed by TZETSE at 15 and TSKTSK at 14. THRASH, THRUSH, and THRESH each score 12, giving you more familiar options below the top three.

The score leader is not one of the everyday choices: TYKISH is a less familiar play than THRUST or THIRST. Check that your game accepts a word before committing, since the dictionaries do not contain identical sets. Collins has 37 matches, compared with 27 in NWL2023 and 24 in ENABLE.

Only 31 of the 38 entries have definitions. For a quick recognition-first scan, start with THRUST, THIRST, THRASH, THRUSH, and TYPIST; for score hunting, inspect the rarer leaders separately.