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6-letter words starting with S

There are 898 common six-letter words that start with S. Six-letter words often appear in word jumbles and newspaper anagram puzzles, and they score well in word games.

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Highest-scoring 6-letter words starting with S

Word	Scrabble points
SCUZZY	29
SNAZZY	27
SIZZLE	24
SKIVVY	19
SQUEAK	19
SUFFIX	19
SLEAZY	18
SPHINX	18

All 898 words

Sorted A–Z. The number after each word is its Scrabble score. 313 of these have a vowel as the second letter.

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