6-letter words with T as the 4th letter and N as the 6th letter

The pattern is _ _ _ T _ N, so the fourth tile is fixed while the final N sharply narrows your options. You’ll see everyday words such as beaten beside less familiar entries such as zeatin. The strongest starting-letter cluster is P, but C and S also offer recognizable choices, so the pattern suits a precise clue better than a loose guess.

The shape of this pattern at a glance

• There are 125 tournament-dictionary matches for the pattern _ _ _ T _ N.
• P leads the first-letter groups with 23 matches; C and S each have 13.
• The familiar set includes listen, martin, boston, button, and cotton.
• Collins includes 124 matches, compared with 95 in NWL2023 and 88 in ENABLE.
• The average Scrabble score is 8.2 points, while zeatin tops the scoring examples at 15.

Which 6-letter words have T fourth and N sixth?

Try listen, beaten, soften, or molten when the clue looks like _ _ _ T _ N. These put T in the fourth slot without repeating it. Button, cotton, gotten, and rotten double the T, a useful reminder that a repeated tile can satisfy a fixed-position clue.

The opening letters provide another way to narrow the search. P has the largest group, while C and S tie behind it. For a more familiar shortlist, start with button, cotton, beaten, and listen rather than guessing from the full set of tournament entries.

How should you use 6-letter words with T fourth and N sixth?

For Scrabble, zeatin scores 15 points in the scoring examples, ahead of phyton and phytin at 14. Sexton, kaftan, and jetton each score 13. Those are tile scores before any board bonuses, so a premium square can change the result; the highest raw score is not automatically the strongest move.

This pattern has a practical limit: only 23 matches fall within the top 25,000 English words by frequency, so many entries will feel unfamiliar. Ninety matches have definitions, but dictionary coverage differs across Collins, NWL2023, and ENABLE. Check your game’s accepted list before playing a less familiar word.