7-letter words with C as the 2nd letter and E as the 7th letter

The pattern is _C____E: C sits in slot two, and E closes every answer. SCIENCE, ACHIEVE, ACQUIRE, and ECLIPSE show how the five open positions can produce very different words. Just six matches rank among common English words, so expect familiar options alongside specialist vocabulary.

A quick profile of the matching words

• The pattern has 95 matches across the tournament dictionaries.
• Collins contains 93 matches, NWL2023 contains 62, and ENABLE contains 56; these sets overlap.
• Six matches rank among common English words.
• S leads the opening-letter count with 44 words; A follows with 24.
• SCHANZE and ECHOIZE are the two top scorers, each worth 21 points.
• ACQUIRE, ECOZONE, ICONIZE and ACQUITE come next at 18 points, with ACHIEVE at 15.

Which familiar words fit _C____E?

SCIENCE, ACHIEVE, ACQUIRE, ECLIPSE, and SCOURGE all fit the letter slots, as do SCUFFLE and SCUTTLE. Their different openings make the pattern less predictable than its fixed C and E suggest: some begin with S, others with A or E.

S starts 44 of the matches, almost double A's 24, while E starts 15 and O, I and Y share the last 12. When solving a rack or a clue, try S first, but keep A in reserve.

7-letter words with C as the 2nd letter and E as the 7th letter

For a word puzzle, lock in the ending E before testing the middle letters. SCIENCE is an easy S-starting check; ACHIEVE gives you an A-starting option. That order uses the most frequent opening first without treating the less common starts as impossible.

For Scrabble, SCHANZE and ECHOIZE lead at 21 points apiece, while ACQUIRE scores 18. The counterintuitive part is that the best-scoring plays are not the everyday examples. These counts also do not mean every match is accepted by every game: confirm unusual choices in the dictionary your game uses.