7-letter words with A as the 1st letter and E as the 3rd letter

The pattern is A?E????: A opens the word, E sits in the third slot, and four letters remain unknown. Only 7 entries count as common, so recognizable choices such as AVERAGE, AWESOME, and AVENUES share space with specialist vocabulary. The list includes words accepted by at least one tournament dictionary, but acceptance varies by game.

At a glance: the A–E pattern

• There are 146 tournament-dictionary words with A first and E third.
• Collins includes 143 entries; NWL2023 includes 109, and ENABLE includes 102.
• Only 7 entries rank among common English words by frequency.
• AVERAGE, AWESOME, and AVENUES are recognizable examples.
• ACEQUIA scores 18 points, ahead of AGENIZE and AXEBIRD at 17 each.

Which endings appear most often?

S is the leading recorded final letter, with 41 words ending in S. E follows at 23, then D at 20; R appears at the end of 12 entries. If your crossing letters leave the last tile open, testing S first gives you the largest group among these endings.

The examples show how varied those endings are: AGENDAS ends in S, AVERAGE ends in E, and AMENDED ends in D. An ending clue can therefore make the pattern much narrower than the first and third letters alone, even before you check the middle tiles.

7-letter words with A first and E third

For a high Scrabble score, ACEQUIA leads at 18 points. AGENIZE and AXEBIRD each score 17, while ACETIFY reaches 15. Those stand out against the list’s 10.1 average score, but the top scorers are less familiar than AVERAGE or AWESOME.

Dictionary coverage is the key limitation: the three tournament lists do not contain identical sets, and only 7 entries are classed as common. Check your game’s word list before relying on an unfamiliar answer; a word accepted in Collins is not automatically accepted in NWL2023 or ENABLE.