7-letter words with A as the 1st letter and S as the 6th letter

The pattern is A????S?: A begins the word, five letters fill the middle, and S sits one place before the final tile. Familiar matches include against, address, actress, and analyst. The tournament-dictionary entries span familiar vocabulary and less common plays, so the fixed letter positions narrow the search without guaranteeing that every candidate suits your game.

At a glance: the A-and-S pattern

• 117 entries match the A-first, S-sixth pattern in at least one tournament dictionary.
• Collins includes 115 matches, compared with 85 in NWL2023 and 78 in ENABLE; those counts overlap.
• Only 13 matches rank among common English words; against, address, and analyst are familiar examples.
• Acquest and acquist tie for the highest score at 18 points apiece.

Which final letters appear most often?

T is the most frequent final letter, appearing in 45 matches; E follows with 32, and S with 20. Against ends in T, while address and actress end in S. When you have the first and sixth positions fixed, checking the last tile against these leading endings gives you a quick way to sort possible answers.

The top-scoring options are less everyday than the strongest familiar examples: acquest and acquist score 18, while azotise scores 16. That contrast matters in a rack search: a high letter score does not make a word common. Dictionary coverage also varies, so check your game's word list before relying on an unfamiliar candidate.

7-letter words with A as the 1st letter and S as the 6th letter

Start by writing A????S? and keep the fifth position open; S is the sixth tile, not the last. Then test a likely ending. Against and analyst both end in T, while address and actress end in S.

This simple separation prevents a common slip: treating a known near-final letter as the word's final letter.

The pattern is narrower than many nearby choices. A first with E in sixth has 411 matches, while this S-sixth set has 117. For another comparison with S fixed in sixth, C-first words number 126 and B-first words number 101.

Those contrasts show how much the initial letter changes the size of a positional search.