7-letter words with C as the 2nd letter and Y as the 4th letter

The fixed pattern is _c_y___, with C in slot two and Y in slot four. ACRYLIC and SCRYING are among the recognizable entries, but most matches are specialist words. Dictionary coverage differs: Collins accepts all 10, while NWL2023 and ENABLE include smaller subsets. Check the word list used by your game before playing an unfamiliar entry.

At a glance: the pattern and its word list

• Ten tournament-dictionary entries match _c_y___.
• Collins includes all 10; NWL2023 includes 8 and ENABLE includes 7.
• Only one match is common by our frequency measure.
• Five matches start with E, three with S and two with A.
• Five matches end in S; the others end in L, C, G or N.

Which 7-letter words have C second and Y fourth?

ACRYLIC and SCRYING are two entries that stand out from the _c_y___ pattern. The remaining examples include ECDYSIS, ECDYSES, ECDYSON, ACRYLYL, ECTYPAL, ECTYPES, SCRYERS and SCRYNES. Their unusual spellings make the fixed letter positions more reliable than trying to guess from meaning.

ACRYLYL leads the score list at 15 points; ACRYLIC, ECTYPAL and ECTYPES each score 14. SCRYING and the three ECDY- forms score 13 apiece. The average score across the matches is 13.3, so these letters offer more scoring potential than their everyday familiarity suggests.

How should you narrow down this pattern?

Start with the first and final letters: E is the most frequent opening, and S is the most frequent ending. That narrows the shape to E_CY___ or S_CY__S before you test the less familiar middle letters. The counts are lopsided: five begin with E, while five end with S.

Nine of the 10 matches are outside the common-word group, so a familiar-looking guess is unlikely to solve every puzzle. The list is a tournament-word reference, not a promise that each entry appears in every game's dictionary. In particular, a word accepted in Collins might not appear in NWL2023 or ENABLE.