6 Letter Words Ending in T

A green T in the sixth tile is common — T closes 163 of this site’s 1,485 accepted guesses — so the real information lives in position five. The current data has 163 six-letter words ending in T, and four families (-ET, -NT, -ST, -CT) account for 105 of them.

Quick choices from the T list

No-repeat examples in the site’s answer pool include silent, parent, forest, honest, modest, bright, priest, spirit, and weight. If the board permits a duplicate, the pool also contains street, accent, effect, moment, resist, and carrot. Inclusion in the answer pool does not predict an official answer anywhere else.

The fifth letter does most of the narrowing

The static file has 163 entries: 88 use six different letters and 75 repeat at least one letter. Counting A/E/I/O/U, six entries have one vowel, 140 have two, and 17 have three.

The remaining 24 records spread across -OT, -LT, -UT, -PT, -AT, and the single -XT entry, admixt — the only X in the file.

Four grammar families in one ending

Each big group has its own logic. -NT is the adjective corner: absent, decent, silent, urgent, vacant, potent all describe rather than act. -ST collects superlatives — eldest, latest, lowest, oldest, truest — plus stand-alone words like forest and honest. -CT is almost pure Latin verb: detect, direct, expect, inject, reject, select. And every one of the ten -HT records spells the ending -GHT: from alight to weight, with caught, fought, sought, taught covering the irregular past tenses.

This matters for probing. A yellow N or S late in the word points at big families with many members still alive; a yellow G near the end almost certainly means -GHT, which is a nine-tenths solved position pattern (only 10 candidates, 9 of them with six distinct letters).

Doubled letters before a final T

24 records double a letter side by side, led by RR with six entries: arrest, carrot, ferret, irrupt, parrot, turret. LL adds four (ballot, fillet, mallet, wallet), FF three (affect, effect, offset), and SS three (assist, assort, basset). If duplicate feedback shows up with a green final T, the RR and LL families are the first place to look — all ten of those words keep the double in positions 2–4.

Coverage picks with the last tile fixed

By this site’s letter-coverage score, the strongest six-distinct-letter entries are ardent (97), recast (94), argent (93), parent (93), and recant (93). They probe A, R, E, and N together, which is exactly the split the -NT and -ST families need. The score is a coverage heuristic inside this data version, not an answer probability.

Worked filter: two candidates from three clues

Suppose the final T is green, R was yellow in position 2, and E and S are both confirmed gray, with repeats ruled out. Enter:

• Yellow letters: R:2
• Exclude letters: ES
• Repeated letters: No repeated letters

Against the current 163-record file, exactly two candidates survive: adroit and import. Both keep R away from position 2 and contain neither E nor S. The result is reproducible in the finder above, and any probe of A or I settles it.

Using the list outside Wordle

For crosswords, the ending families map directly onto clue grammar: a superlative clue points to -ST, a “describes” clue to -NT, an action verb to -CT. For spelling practice, the -GHT block is the classic irregular set, and this file happens to hold all ten of its six-letter members.

Related word tools

Return to the ending-letter hub if the final tile is not T. The E list and D list cover the other heavyweight endings, and a confirmed first T flips the problem to 6 letter words starting with T. To play a candidate, open Unlimited 6 Letter Wordle.

Data review: September 1, 2026. The 163-entry total, the 88/75 split, the ending table, the -GHT count, the doubled-letter tallies, and the worked filter result were recomputed from the published ending-t.json file on that date; see the word-list methodology for the source, license, and version history.