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6-letter words starting with L

There are 298 common six-letter words that start with L. 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 L

Word	Scrabble points
LAZILY	18
LUMMOX	17
LARYNX	16
LAXITY	16
LAZIED	16
LAZING	16
LIQUID	16
LIZARD	16

All 298 words

Sorted A–Z. The number after each word is its Scrabble score. 293 of these have a vowel as the second letter.

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Other words starting with L

3-letter words starting with L27 words 4-letter words starting with L137 words 5-letter words starting with L203 words 7-letter words starting with L332 words 8-letter words starting with L305 words