7-letter words with E as the 1st letter and I as the 6th letter

The pattern fixes E at the start and I just before the final letter, leaving five positions to distinguish each answer. You’ll find recognizable choices such as explain, exhibit and exploit alongside rarer entries like enzymic and epizoic. Only 6 of the 90 words rank among the most common English words, so expect a specialist-heavy set rather than an everyday vocabulary list.

Key facts about the E-first, I-sixth pattern

• There are 90 matching words in Collins, compared with 60 in ENABLE and 61 in NWL2023.
• Only 6 entries fall within the top 25,000 English words by frequency.
• The most frequent final letter is C, appearing in 36 of the matches.
• Enzymic tops the Scrabble scores at 23 points.
• Endings D (8 words), S (7) and T (5) trail far behind C, A and N.

Which final letters appear most often?

C is the standout ending: 36 words finish with it, including ectopic, embolic, ergodic and eugenic. That concentration makes the final position a strong narrowing clue once E and the sixth-letter I are fixed. A ends 14 words and N ends 11, so those are the next endings worth testing.

The set also includes words ending in D, S, T, L and E. Examples such as explain, exhibit and exploit show how varied the middle letters can be despite the fixed pattern. Don’t assume every candidate is familiar: the six common entries are a small slice of the full Collins list.

Which matching words score highest?

Enzymic scores 23 points, ahead of epizoic at 20 and exhibit at 19. Exclaim and exosmic each score 18, while explain and exploit each score 16. For a playable word you already know, exhibit is a more recognizable high scorer than the leading specialist terms.

The unusual pattern is sparse beside close alternatives: 242 seven-letter words start with S and put I sixth, while 297 start with E and put E sixth. Use explain or exhibit to check the pattern in a word puzzle, then verify less familiar plays against your game’s dictionary. Collins has more matches here than either NWL2023 or ENABLE.