7-letter words with C as the 2nd letter and R as the 6th letter

The pattern is _C___R_: C sits in the second slot, R in the sixth, and five letters remain open. ACQUIRE, SCENERY, and ICEBERG are recognizable matches, but only four entries rank among the 25,000 most frequent English words. Most matches are specialist vocabulary or inflected forms, so the fixed letter frame is often a stronger clue than familiarity.

7-letter words with C as the 2nd letter and R as the 6th letter

• Exactly 23 tournament-dictionary words fit the pattern _C___R_.
• SCENERY, SCORERS, and SCALARS all start with S; 12 matches begin that way.
• Eleven matches end in S, making S the most frequent final letter.
• ACQUIRE scores 18 points, ahead of SCEPTRY, ICEWORM, and ACIFORM at 14.
• Collins includes 22 matches, NWL2023 includes 17, and ENABLE includes 15.

Which matches score highest, and where are they accepted?

ACQUIRE leads the tile-score ranking at 18 points. SCEPTRY, ICEWORM, and ACIFORM each score 14, while SCENERY and ICEBERG score 12. Those less familiar high scorers can beat an everyday-looking word on a word-game rack, but the score is for the letters alone, before board bonuses.

Dictionary coverage varies: Collins has 22 of these words, NWL2023 has 17, and ENABLE has 15. The 23-word total counts entries appearing in at least one of those tournament lists. Check your game's word list before playing an uncommon match; a word accepted in one list may not appear in another.

How should you narrow the remaining matches?

Start with the two fixed positions, then use any known letters in the five open slots to sort the options. SCENERY and SCENARY differ only in their final vowel, while SCORERS and SCALARS share the opening SC but diverge after it. That makes the middle letters more valuable than the shared start when testing a clue.

The opening letter also narrows the field quickly: 12 matches start with S, compared with five starting with A and two each with E, I, or O. For 7-letter words with C as the 2nd letter and R as the 6th, checking the first letter before scanning endings cuts down the search.