7-letter words with A as the 2nd letter and H as the 4th letter

Read the pattern as _A_H___: A is fixed in slot two and H in slot four, while the first, third, fifth, sixth, and final letters remain open. The matches span word families from everyday MACHINE and FASHION to less familiar CACHEXY. Only 15 qualify as common by frequency, so recognizable examples make up a small slice of the available choices.

At a glance, the _A_H___ pattern

• 182 entries match the pattern across the tournament dictionaries.
• Only 15 are common by frequency; MACHINE, FASHION, and WASHING are familiar examples.
• M is the leading first letter, appearing in 26 entries.
• S leads the endings with 49 words, ahead of G with 24.
• CACHEXY tops the score list at 24 points.

How many words fit, and where are they accepted?

There are 182 matching words in the combined tournament-dictionary count. The individual lists overlap: Collins includes 171, NWL2023 includes 126, and ENABLE includes 111. Those figures are not separate piles to add together.

The dictionary split matters in a game: a word accepted in Collins is not automatically accepted in NWL2023 or ENABLE. Check your game's word list before playing a less familiar entry.

The pattern is selective. Keeping A in the second position but changing the fourth letter to A produces 440 matches, compared with 182 for H. Just 15 entries here fall among the commonest English words by frequency.

How do you narrow this _A_H___ pattern?

• Start with the final letter: 49 matches end in S, while 24 end in G.
• Try M first when the opening tile is unknown; it begins 26 matching words.
• Use recognizable anchors such as MACHINE, FASHION, PATHWAY, and CASHIER to test the open slots.
• For 7-letter words with A as the 2nd letter and H as the 4th letter, separate familiar guesses from obscure tournament entries.
• CACHEXY scores 24 points; MACHZOR and MAZHBIS each score 23.