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

The fixed middle pair creates a clear search pattern: every match has T in position three and O immediately after it. Among 109 words, actors, motors, gators, and tutors end in S, while detour and retort show the same frame with different endings. Only 8 matches are common by frequency, so familiar examples make up a small slice.

How many six-letter words have T third and O fourth?

• Exactly 109 tournament-dictionary words fit the T-O middle pattern.
• Actors, motors, gators, and tutors are recognizable examples ending in S.
• Only 8 matches rank among the commonest English words by frequency.
• Collins includes 104 matches, compared with 70 in ENABLE.
• Cutoff, putoff, and extold lead the scoring list at 14 points.

Which endings are most common in this pattern?

S is the leading final letter: 38 of the matches end that way. Examples include actors, motors, tutors, and rotors. E comes next with 15, seen in vetoes and vetoed; T follows with 10, including retort and extort.

Those endings are more than a spelling detail when you are narrowing a puzzle. If the final letter is S, start with familiar plural forms such as gators or tutors. For E, try vetoes; for T, detour and retort demonstrate different words with the same fixed middle.

Six-letter words with T as the 3rd letter and O as the 4th letter

The exact middle pair produces fewer matches than several nearby patterns: R-O has 186, while O-O has 133 and L-O has 126. Switching the fourth letter while keeping T third also changes the count sharply: T-T has 218, but T-M has 23.

For a board game, cutoff and putoff top the scoring examples at 14 points, with extold also scoring 14. Extort, extols, and extoll score 13 apiece. The high scorers are not necessarily the words you will recognize first, so check your game's word list before building a play around an unfamiliar option.

The practical constraint is the middle, not the first or last letter: the opening varies across actors, retort, and uptown. Use a known first or final letter to narrow the 109 matches, then test the remaining possibilities against the crossing tiles.