Six-Letter Words: Full List with Scrabble Scores
All 15,232 6-letter English words — with Scrabble scores, top scorers, and strategy tips.
Find Words From Your Letters →Why Six-Letter Words Matter
6-letter words use most of your Scrabble rack and often reach bonus squares. They are one tile short of a bingo, so knowing common 6-letter words sets up 7-letter plays.
This page lists every 6-letter word from the ENABLE dictionary — the open-source standard for North American Scrabble (TWL), Words With Friends, and Boggle. Each entry includes its base Scrabble score.
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Top 50 Highest-Scoring Six-Letter Words
Play these on Double or Triple Word Score squares for maximum value.
Six-Letter Words by Starting Letter
| Letter | Count | Full List |
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| S | 1801 words | Coming soon |
| C | 1294 words | Coming soon |
| B | 1068 words | Coming soon |
| P | 1038 words | Coming soon |
| R | 931 words | Coming soon |
| T | 902 words | Coming soon |
| A | 828 words | Coming soon |
| D | 806 words | Coming soon |
| M | 789 words | Coming soon |
| F | 704 words | Coming soon |
| G | 679 words | Coming soon |
| L | 638 words | Coming soon |
Scrabble Strategy for Six-Letter Words
6-letter words use most of your Scrabble rack and often reach bonus squares. They are one tile short of a bingo, so knowing common 6-letter words sets up 7-letter plays.
- Premium squares: From the opening square, a 6-letter word can reach a Double or Triple Word Score square on the right board. Always aim for bonus squares first.
- Rack balance: A 6-letter play draws 6 new tiles. Choose words that leave a balanced vowel-consonant rack for your next turn.
- Parallel plays: A 6-letter word placed alongside an existing word scores both the main word and the new letters it creates by touching the board.
- Extension potential: Learn which 6-letter words accept prefix or suffix extensions to set up a longer future play.
The most efficient 6-letter Scrabble plays score 15+ base points. On a Double Word Score square, that becomes 30+ — enough to build or maintain a meaningful lead.
Frequently Asked Questions
Six-Letter Words: One Tile Short of a Bingo
Six-letter plays in Scrabble occupy a unique strategic position: they are one tile short of the 50-point bingo bonus, which means the decision to play six letters versus hold for a potential 7-letter bingo is one of the most common strategic choices in the game. The rule of thumb is: if your 6-letter play scores 25+ base points, take it. If it scores under 20 and you hold a bingo-productive tile (S, E, R, T, A, N, I), keep searching for the 7-letter play first.
Six-letter words are also the most common bingo platform — words already on the board that you can extend through with a 7th tile to form a 7-letter bingo. SATINE, STOLEN, RETINA, and other common 6-letter stems are valuable partly as plays and partly as targets for through-play bingos when an opponent has already placed them. Learning to recognise 6-letter bingo platforms is as valuable as memorising the bingo words themselves.
Top Six-Letter Words by Scrabble Score
The highest-scoring 6-letter words combine high-tile letters with common supporting letters. FEZZED (28 pts), BUZZED (26 pts), JAZZED (26 pts), and WHIZZY (26 pts) top the list but require specific tile draws. More reliably achievable are QUARTZ (24 pts), FAJITA (16 pts), GALAXY (16 pts), and JACKAL (17 pts). Knowing these from memory means you recognise them instantly when your rack contains the right tiles — the difference between a player who looks and a player who sees.
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