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

This pattern is narrow, but it includes familiar choices such as stolen and strain alongside less common words like atween and etymon. Every match ends in N, while the opening letter varies across just four letters. The list draws from tournament dictionaries, so acceptance depends on which word list your game uses.

How many 6-letter words have T second and N sixth?

• There are 22 matches, and every one ends in N.
• Stolen, strain, attain, and strewn are recognizable examples.
• S begins 11 words; A begins five, E four, and P two.
• Only four entries rank among the top 25,000 English words by frequency.

Which words fit this letter pattern?

The strongest everyday anchors are stolen, strain, attain, and stamen. They all place T in the second slot and N at the end, but their first letters show the pattern’s skew: half of the matches start with S. Attain is the only A-starter among those four.

Other matches include statin, ataman, etalon, and stolon. The less familiar end includes ptisan, strown, and stonen, so a plausible-looking fit is not automatically a playable answer. Four words meet the common-word frequency cutoff; most of the set is less familiar.

How do dictionary coverage and scores compare?

Collins includes all 22 matches, compared with 19 in NWL2023 and 17 in ENABLE. That spread matters in cross-dictionary play: check your game’s word list before relying on a rarer entry such as atween or ethion. Definitions are available for 18 of the words.

For 6-letter words with T second and N sixth, etymon is the top scorer at 11 points, while steven, strewn, and ethion each score 9. The average score is 7.6, so ETYMON sits more than three points above the typical match. Its Y and M lift its tile total, but the fixed T and N do not make every match a high scorer.