6-letter words with T as the 2nd letter and E as the 5th letter

The pattern is _T__E_: T sits in the second position, and E sits in the fifth. Of the 120 matches, 24 are common English words by frequency, so familiar choices such as STREET and STORES sit alongside less familiar entries. The counts draw from tournament dictionaries, not every word list used by every game.

6-letter words with T as the 2nd letter and E as the 5th letter

• The pattern has 120 six-letter matches across tournament dictionaries.
• S begins 92 matches, about three quarters of the total.
• The ending S is most common, appearing on 46 words; D follows with 34.
• Collins includes 118 matches, NWL2023 has 83, and ENABLE has 77; these counts overlap.
• PTYXES leads the scoring examples at 18 points.

Why do most matches start with S?

92 of the 120 matches start with S, making it the clear front-runner. Familiar examples include STATES, STREET, STORES, STAGES, STOLEN, and STONES; the fixed T and E positions leave the first letter open, but S dominates the available combinations.

The endings have a different spread: 46 words finish with S, 34 with D, and 20 with R. That makes STATES, STATED, and STONER useful pattern examples when you know the final letter as well as the two fixed positions.

For a puzzle, lock in _T__E_ before testing less common letters. STREET and STONES show how much the opening S can narrow the search, while ETCHED proves the pattern also allows a vowel at the front.

Which pattern matches score highest?

PTYXES tops the scoring examples at 18 Scrabble points. The next scorers are ETCHED, ITCHED, ATABEK, and STYMED, each at 12 points, so the unusual PTYXES stands apart from more recognizable choices such as STOKED at 11.

The mean score across the pattern is 8.3 points. Treat that as a tile-score comparison, not a promise of a strong board play: a high-scoring entry such as PTYXES is much less familiar than STREET or STATED.

These 120 matches appear in at least one of Collins, NWL2023, or ENABLE, but no single dictionary contains all of them. Check your game's word list before playing a less familiar entry; the overlap between the three dictionary counts is substantial.