7-letter words with A as the 2nd letter and T as the 5th letter

The fixed pattern is _A__T__, with A locked into slot two and T into slot five. Familiar examples include capital, painted, habitat, painter, haunted, and bathtub; less everyday entries sit beside them. Dictionary coverage varies: 194 words appear in Collins, 156 in NWL2023, and 140 in ENABLE, so source membership differs by game.

The pattern at a glance

• 200 entries match _A__T__ across at least one tournament dictionary.
• Capital, painted, and habitat are among the familiar examples.
• Only 18 entries fall within the top 25,000 English words by frequency.
• Kamotiq and qamutik lead the scoring list at 22 points apiece.

Which familiar words fit the pattern?

Capital and capitol differ only at the sixth position, while painter and painted share their first five letters and split at the end. Palette, hamster, janitor, and tainted offer other recognizable routes through the same A-second, T-fifth frame.

The endings make a useful solve filter: 53 matches finish in S, while 30 end in R and 27 in D. S is also the leading first letter, but only with 19 words; C follows at 18. If your remaining slots allow a final S, test that branch early rather than treating all possible endings equally.

Final E appears 20 times, compared with 10 final Cs. That two-to-one split can settle a trailing-letter clue quickly, especially when the starting letter remains unknown.

The fifth slot sharply narrows the search: the pattern with A second and I fifth has 1,363 matches, compared with 200 for T fifth. Once A is confirmed, lock in the fifth tile before sorting by the first or last letter.

7-letter words with A as the 2nd letter and T as the 5th letter

Treat the 200-word total as a tournament-dictionary pool, not a promise that every entry works in your game. 150 entries have definitions, but only 18 meet the common-word frequency cutoff; check your game's chosen dictionary before relying on an obscure fit.

Kamotiq and qamutik top the scoring list at 22 points each; gazette and fajitas follow at 17. Every candidate has the same seven-letter length, so the score gap comes from letter mix rather than extra tiles. The rare-letter leaders are better considered as board plays than likely clue answers.