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

The fixed pair TA sits in the middle of every match, but the remaining letters create plenty of different shapes. ATTACK, ESTATE, RETAIL, and OBTAIN are recognizable options; other entries are much less familiar. The count includes words found in at least one tournament dictionary, so acceptance depends on the word list your game uses.

The T-A pattern at a glance

• There are 131 six-letter matches with T third and A fourth.
• O starts 17 words, the largest first-letter group; R starts 15.
• S closes 35 matches, while E is the next most frequent ending at 28.
• The common group has 27 words, including ATTACK, ESTATE, RETAIL, and OBTAIN.

Which words put T third and A fourth?

ATTACK, ESTATE, RETAIL, and OBTAIN all place TA in positions three and four. Their final letters—K, E, L, and N—show why the fixed pair narrows a clue without settling the whole answer.

Look at the last letter when you have an extra tile to place: S leads this set with 35 words, E follows with 28, and A appears at the end of 16. METALS, TITANS, and TOTALS illustrate the strong S-ending cluster.

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

JATAKA tops the listed Scrabble scores at 17 points. EXTASY and EUTAXY each reach 16, while ATTACK earns 12 before premiums on the board. The average score across the group is 8.6, so those three unusual entries stand well above the typical play.

Familiarity is a real limitation here: just 27 entries fall in the common-word group. Collins accepts 130 matches, compared with 95 in NWL2023, so tournament results differ by dictionary. Check your game’s word list before playing a rare entry.