6-letter words with T as the 3rd letter and I as the 5th letter

The pattern is _ _ T _ I _: T takes the third slot and I the fifth, leaving four letters open. Matches include familiar words such as WITHIN, DETAIL and RETAIL, but only 12 qualify as common under the frequency measure. A valid tournament entry is not automatically a word you are likely to reach for in a puzzle.

At a glance: the T-I pattern

• 93 six-letter entries fit _ _ T _ I _ across the tournament dictionaries.
• WITHIN, DETAIL, RETAIL and OBTAIN are recognizable matches.
• Only 12 matches rank among the top 25,000 English words by word frequency.
• Collins accepts 91 matches, NWL2023 accepts 71 and ENABLE accepts 62.
• MYTHIC leads the score list at 16 points, just ahead of MATRIX at 15.

Which endings occur most often?

Final E and N tie as the most common endings, with 18 matches apiece; C follows with 11. WITHIN and OBTAIN show the N ending, while the pattern also leaves room for less obvious choices. An ending narrows the search, but the third- and fifth-letter positions still have to fit.

O is the most frequent first letter, starting 13 matches. C, P and T tie at 8 each, followed by M and N at 7 apiece. T appearing among those first letters does not make it the first letter in every answer: its fixed place is third.

6-letter words with T 3rd and I 5th: top scores

MYTHIC scores 16 points, edging MATRIX by one. OXTAIL, PATHIC, TETTIX and TUTRIX each score 13. The surprise is that MYTHIC tops the group without an X; MATRIX has the familiar high-value letter but still trails by a point.

Dictionary coverage is not identical: Collins has 91 matches, compared with 71 in NWL2023 and 62 in ENABLE, out of 93 overall. Those counts overlap, and no single dictionary includes every match. Check your game's word list before playing an unfamiliar entry.